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Author :: Brace Barber  |
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| Article Title :: Rapid Culture Change is Possible |
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| Purpose: Show how immersion leadership training makes strategic initiative success possible.Adults learn through experience. We learn behaviors through experience. This is the flagpole fact of the educational world. This flag is visible for everyone to see, and it’s where educators know they need to be whether they are training hard or soft skills. Deborah Solomon Reid of Tuck School of Business strikes a bell to be heard by anyone considering this most fundamental element of adult learning. “While conceptual learning is important, the major leaps forward—these so-called ‘aha!’ moments when mental maps are rearranged—are most likely to happen when students encoun (read full article) |
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| Category :: Management Articles |
Author :: Martin Haworth |
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| Article Title :: Time Management and Team Development - The Yes and No of It |
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| Sometimes.In fact making some small changes to the circumstances when we use these two little words, can make all the difference. And it takes practice.Saying 'Yes' More......brings help when we are offered it. How often have you turned down support, because it felt easier to say 'No thanks. I'm fine'? How often have you rejected assistance in all sorts of places and circumstances? Sometimes it seems like the thing to do - a force of habit. But saying 'Yes', truly can be a help for you. But there is more. When you say 'Yes', you build relationships with who is offering.You see, people love to help others and being in a (read full article) |
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| Category :: Management Articles |
Author :: Brenda Townsend Hall |
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| Article Title :: Five Principles of Effective Communication |
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| The problem with communication is the illusion that it has occurred. George Bernard ShawI’m sure this has happened to you: a colleague has just done the exact opposite of what you wanted him to do. How can that be, you ask yourself. I told him exactly what I wanted. Yes, maybe you told him but did you check that he was listening, that he understood, that he agreed and that he would carry out the required action? Obviously not. The first principle of effective communication is to get appropriate feedback.The second principle of effective communications is to really connect with your audience. It is a fallacy that the mere sending out of information is a commun (read full article) |
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| Category :: Management Articles |
Author :: Philip Lye |
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| Article Title :: Motor Vehicle Policy and Your Employee Risks |
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| It is becoming more common for employers to require employees to use their personnel motor vehicles for business use. Reimbursement for business use is commonly by way of a kilometre/mileage allowance or a general motor vehicle allowance for the year.Did you know that you can be found vicariously liable for the acts and omissions of your employees driving while driving a motor vehicle for work related business?Even an innocuous journey to pick up the daily mail can be fraught with risk!I this day and age employees cannot always be relied upon to exercise discretion and common sense. It is therefore important that you take some human resource risk strategies to ensure (read full article) |
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| Category :: Management Articles |
Author :: Sandra Beale |
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| Article Title :: How to Use an HR Consultant |
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| Bringing an HR consultant into your organisation can often be the only way to get a particular objective achieved. It may be a project that needs to be delivered such as a recruitment campaign, a compensation & benefits review or the implementation of an HR information system. Another possibility may be the need to cover a maternity leave post. Whatever the company requirement, whether it be linked to strategic or operational HR there is a consultant to fit the bill, whether they be a generalist or specialist.The advantages to bringing in an external professional can be buying in specific expertise just as and when it’s needed. Many HR consultants have many years solid prac (read full article) |
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| Category :: Management Articles |
Author :: Mike Shannon |
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| Article Title :: Being a Great Boss |
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| Are you one of those bosses that people just love to hate? Maybe successful, maybe very intelligent, maybe organized and moving forward but just can't get along with people. Communication and other people skills are as important to the success of your business as your talent, knowledge and entrepreneurial drive. After all, you cannot do it all by yourself and you need good people.I remember being a very arrogant and egotistical program director back in the mid 1970's when my boss called me into the office and flat out told me "Mike, you got talent and drive but you need to learn some diplomacy". I'll never forget that meeting. This mentor taught me things like no matter how great m (read full article) |
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| Category :: Management Articles |
Author :: Andrew E. Schwartz |
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| Article Title :: Take This Into Consideration Before You Write Your Mission Statement |
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| What principles should a company keep in mind when developing a mission statement? Appropriate criteria must be chosen for defining the business. There are several alternatives for defining one’s services: by the products one produces, by unique resources that the company possesses, by a particular strength that the company has, by unique financial measures, or by needs that are met. Anyone who has to draft a mission statement should pretend that he or she is an advertising copywriter. “Tell the world in 25 words or less who you are and what you want to become.” The statement should be concise and to the point.Management must identify the opportunities and threats confronting (read full article) |
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| Category :: Management Articles |
Author :: Kathy Szpakowski |
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| Article Title :: Retaining An Expert -- What Every Business Owner Needs To Know |
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| As an entrepreneur, hiring an expert can be one of the most efficient ways to turbo-charge your business. However, thousands of consultants flood the Information Highway, and each one promises to positively impact your bottom line. How do you know which expert has the right combination of smarts, skills, experience and personality to move your company in the right direction?It’s no small feat to allow a consultant to make decisions on your behalf. Empowering a consultant to advise changes can bring up feelings of doubt and fear. To help you choose the right expert for you, here are 6 cautionary tips from Kathy Szpakowski, founder of KBS Group, one of the country’s most successf (read full article) |
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| Category :: Management Articles |
Author :: Tim Dawes |
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| Article Title :: Medical Malpractice: Three Myths That Cost Your Hospital Millions |
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| What's the use?Nothing you do will hold down the cost of medical malpractice. It feels that way sometimes, doesn't it?Unfortunately, for many risk managers, that's not too far off the mark. What they're doing isn't working.We can point to other industries, greedy lawyers, insurance companies trying to make up for losses in the stock market. But there's trouble within medical practices too.A study published in the Archives of Internal Medicine showed that many of the actions risk managers take actually backfire(1). They create more risk and drive up costs.The problem is not the risk managers. It's myths about medical malpractice that dominate the healt (read full article) |
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| Category :: Management Articles |
Author :: Tony Marven |
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| Article Title :: Keeping Team Meetings Vibrant |
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| Meetings can be the life-blood of an organisation or the death.It all depends how you approach them.People need to communicate – that’s a fact, and it’s not enough to do it over computers. At some point a face-to-face is needed to ensure full understanding on key items, and there’s a bonding and rapport between colleagues that is often taken for granted.But for something so important to the operational health of an organisation why do so many meetings produce negative feelings and little in the way of results? Why do people keep going to meetings that they know will be a waste of time? Surely there must be a solution to meeting madness?The key is to inv (read full article) |
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