Melissa Vokoun asked: The value of work groups to accomplish complex projects achieve company goals is now widely accepted. Few would argue that teams are the best way to approach both short and long term projects. But who should make up these teams to maximize their effectiveness? Putting together a winning team is like orchestrating […]
Category: Transformational Leadership
Tris Brown asked: Our experience and research tell us that most training initiatives consistently fall short for two reasons: 1. They are not fully implemented or executed. 2. They do not show measurable improvements in performance or in business results. These two factors have rightfully created ambiguity and cynicism around training as a strategic investment. […]
Dr. Mario Barrett, Ph.D. asked: The world is changing. The compression of time, globalization, and the influence of technology are transforming the marketplace as well as the organizations that operate within it. The quagmire that many American organizations find themselves in is determining how to transform themselves in order to keep pace. The only way […]
Steve Bernal asked: While the business world and Corporate America tend to evoke visions of wealthy business people consumed by themselves and their bank accounts, there is a growing movement of companies whose owners and leadership want something different. Known as conscious business, company owners strive to consider the effects of their business actions on […]
Alvaro Castillo asked: Co-parenting may not come naturally to you, particularly if you’re a high-conflict couple or you’re still recovering from the nastiness of a divorce. Divorced parents need to make a concerted effort to keep their conflicts with each other separate from their relationship as co-parents to their child. Every year, 1 million U.S. […]
Kris Koonar asked: Behavioral coaching is being used in a variety of ways today. It has become extremely important for coaches to be successfully trained in behavioral coaching and be able to go to the very root of the individual problems and provide adequate and realistic solutions. Coaches work with the clients and help them […]
M. Sreenivas asked: The issue of “improving quality has garnered increased attention from management in recent years. This is to ensure Global competitiveness after the international markets opened up for India post liberalization. The essence of QM is process improvement, and employee involvement is the linchpin of process improvement. In other words, QM requires management […]
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Team Dynamics
David Waters asked: TEAM DYNAMICS and PROJECT SUCCESS by David B. Waters We all know that we are supposed to “get alongâ€. We’ve heard this since we were youngsters. Then why is it so hard to practice as adults? We have our degrees, titles, gray-hair, and nice offices, but when it comes to playing on […]
Dave Wheitner asked: In its broadest sense, an idealist is someone who frequently entertains ideas about how our lives and the world around us might be different–possibilities of how things could be. Our thinking extends beyond current reality, as we spend significant time considering the “big picture” complexities of how everything fits together in the […]
Dan Herman asked: A spate of recent articles about the Obama brand have, in my view as an expert on marketing, neglected the brand’s strategy and focused its verbal or visual expressions. But far more important is the distinction between the short-term brand, “Candidate Obama,” and the long-term brand, “President Obama.” So far candidate Obama’s […]