Removing Obstacles to Success
October 18, 1:29 pm
Just thinking: How often have you ever attended training for how to deal with workplace problems? The range of topics could cover a lot of valuable ground:
How to respond to someone who’s not doing his/her job — and it’s affecting yours
How to approach someone who’s lack of boundaries is causing problems
How to best deal with […]
October 16, 5:19 am
Over the years, diversity training has been conducted with the impression that we’re all supposed to get along. I’m all for that. What I have a problem with is the phrase “strength through diversity.”
With all due respect, that won’t work. Diversity is differences. If you doubt me, just check your dictionary, or visit yourdictionary.com, dictionary.reference.com, […]
October 2, 4:26 am
From time to time I get involved in discussions about optimum class size for a training program. In reality, the answer is “it depends,” but it would probably help to be more specific.
First we should separate one-time events from ongoing programs.
It’s a matter of practicality that one-time workshops can have a large numbers of attendees. […]
September 12, 4:18 am
A great piece at management-issues.com on why manners matter points out what OUGHT to be the obvious. Almost ALL senior execs and managers (95 percent to be exact) believe that “good manners matter when it comes to advancing a person’s career.”
So why is it that so many younger workers eschew common niceties?
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September 11, 4:37 am
If you’re stepping up to a manager’s position for first time, congratulations! Somebody thinks you have what it takes to make things happen. But allow me to give you some valuable advice. Forget the skills you relied on to be successful in your previous position—except the following:
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September 5, 8:00 am
September is Ethnic Foods Month, and this is certainly something that can engage all employees. Why? Because every worker has a heritage that can be celebrated with food! (My question: Is Pizza considered an ethnic food?)
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August 29, 4:35 am
Garry Kranz has a great snippet over at Workforce Management on how managers actually hinder the efforts to achieve company goals.
Kranz quotes a bit of research showing that more often than not, companies are unable achieve performance goals because managers are at a loss for how to have “difficult performance discussions” with underachieving employees.
My initial […]
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