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How to Stop Micromanaging and Motivate People to Top Performance
Removing Obstacles to Success
July 27, 2:43 pm
[Aug 1st NOTE: With a hat tip to Richard after his Aug. 1 comment, please translate the term “e-Book” in this post to “Audiobook” — Thanks, Richard]
If your schedule is anything like mine, it’s getting tougher to squeeze in time for reading. And so, I’m increasingly buying e-Books and soaking in my ‘reading’ while walking […]
July 18, 6:51 pm
Seems that summer has brought scammers and spammers out in force. ScienceDaily.com has a post with info from the FBI about three separate email scams making their way around the ‘Net.
One that has flooded my inbox lately is the egreeting email, in which I’m told I have an e-card or an e-greeting from a friend […]
July 10, 4:19 am
When E-learning began making a dent in the workplace during the last decade, it was a novelty. In fact, I recall one of my professors telling me that the entire Internet was a fad, predicting that it would slip out of use before too long.
Obviously, he was wrong (oooh, I would just love to publish […]
June 21, 10:43 pm
What are the trends for hiring an executive coach? According to a press release by the Novations Group out of Boston (with a hat tip to Management-Issues.com), here are the figures, taken only from companies that actually use coaching:
We increasingly rely on coaching - 19%
We rely on coaching at about the same rate as in […]
June 11, 4:18 am
Anyone who’s ever interviewed others for a job knows how time consuming it can be. So when something crosses my path that seems like it could make such a task easier, I tend to take notice.
That’s what I did when I heard about Simulation on Demand (from etc-easy.com), which tests and predicts success levels for […]
May 10, 1:07 pm
I’m sitting here chuckling over a phone call I just received. A friend of mine is applying for a rather high-level position at a sizable Midwestern company. As he went about the task of completing their online application form, he grew so frustrated with it that he just gave up.
The problem? This company just missed […]
May 10, 5:30 am
Here’s a phrase heard in just about every organization: “Our communication needs to improve.” Although this phrase rings with truth, it’s about as useful as standing in the rain saying, “Our clothes are getting wet.” General statements of the obvious don’t solve problems.
My gripe with the instruction to “improve communication” is that it’s too broad. […]