Removing Obstacles to Success
November 28, 4:32 am
Think back through all your performance reviews – if you’ve ever had one at all. Most people tell me their reviews fall way short of expectations. Not in terms of what kind of marks the person received, but in terms of how incomplete the review process seems to be.
Essentially, more often than not, employees report walking away from reviews […]
November 23, 9:26 am
The word coming from several sources (including the Taipei Times) is that the Maxtor Basics 3200 external hard drive – manufactured in China – comes out of the box brand new with a Trojan horse already on it. The program quietly steals passwords and sends them to a server “somewhere in China.”
If you’re like me […]
November 21, 8:00 pm
Perhaps the following describes your situation: You are eager to learn, looking for a challenge and seeking additional responsibilities. You see opportunities in every problem.
Your co-workers show little or no enthusiasm about work, do the bare minimum, shuffle paper, and find problems in every opportunity. They find a lot to complain about.
The question: Can you […]
November 19, 4:19 am
Isn’t it sad how some of the people who scoff at workplace communication training could be the ones who benefit from it?
One guy I know, we’ll call him James, has a chip on his shoulder toward some people he once worked with on a project. For whatever reason, James never communicated his displeasure about how […]
November 15, 4:57 am
A friend of mine oversees training for a large company. During a recent phone call he told me of how an accident at his company was deemed a “training problem.”
This malady afflicts many companies. “Something is wrong — let’s blame the training department.”
Perhaps it would be more mature … more responsible … for these companies to stop and think before […]
November 14, 9:19 am
Why some people flirt with disaster to save a few bucks is beyond me. What is it? Laziness? Excessive compulsion to skimp to the nth degree? I’m sometimes asked if ambivalence can be overcome by workplace training. My answer is a “definite maybe.”
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November 13, 10:43 am
It seems a lot of companies want to create a newsletter of some sort. The first question that needs an answer is “what is the purpose of the newsletter?” After that, the next one is usually “do we produce a paper version or electronic version?”
After doing paper and electronic newsletters for almost two decades, I’ve […]
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