Removing Obstacles to Success
June 14, 8:49 am
Comments on my post about problems in workplace learning and several recent conversations have got me convinced: Not conducting an appropriate root-cause analysis when problems are encountered is a major deficiency in modern management. One would think that with all the books on leadership out there, business leaders would be getting better at identifying the […]
June 13, 11:02 am
Could it be that the major HRM and HRD publications are taking cues from this blog? One would hope so. Or maybe the editors at these publications are wondering if the cues are going the other way – like I have inside connections at their publications??
(I should, but I don’t.)
All joking aside, it’s affirming […]
June 12, 3:46 pm
A colleague called today, and although I can’t share the name of her company, I will say that the results of a survey her company just completed are quite telling. Seems that leadership in companies of all sizes are both the gateway AND the obstacle to effective workplace learning.
Whereas a company president, a CFO, or […]
June 6, 11:52 am
Most every marketing guru will tell us we need to investigate our competition (Tim Berry has a good article on this at Entrepreneur.com). One common recommendation is to shop your competitors. When you’re doing the shopping, that seems fine. But when you’re getting shopped, well, it’s kind of annoying.
As a business owner I get shopped […]
May 30, 10:40 am
The Canadian Council on Learning recently released a report saying their country isn’t doing so well in terms of training workers. This according to an article at CanadianBusiness.com.
Apparently while Canadians do pretty well in traditional school, once they graduate and enter the job market, learning often goes by the wayside. But that has the Council’s […]
May 25, 12:59 pm
With permission, I’m posting here about a coaching session I just finished. The manager I’ve been working with (we’ll call him “Stan”) has been in various positions over the past ten years, but says he’s never been trained in what it means to be a manager.
“I can’t believe how these leaders just tell you what […]
May 21, 4:10 pm
I’m finally getting a taste of my own Train the Trainer medicine: After not having a dog for about twenty five years, I’m now on the receiving end of a unique Train-the-Trainer program, if you know what I mean.
Quick explanation: For the past four or five years I’ve responded with an unequivocal “no” every time […]
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