Planning a presentation? Once you’ve analyzed your audience and determined what you want to say, give lots of attention to the presentation’s two most critical parts: the opening and the close. They’re the parts the audience will remember best – and each of them serves a vital purpose. Begin with a Bang Begin the presentation […]
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“Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.” Aldous Huxley (1894 – 1963) English writer, best know as the author of Brave New World
Executives play in a bigger league; they play for higher stakes; and the game is for keeps. Doing the day-to-day, hands-on work doesn’t fit the job description of the executive; driving the strategy, developing the bench, and making high-caliber decisions have become the new coinage of the realm. When you understand who executives are, what […]
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Make Every Second Count: Time Management Tips and Techniques for More Success With Less Stress by Robert W. Bly About the Reference Make Every Second Count: Time Management Tips and Techniques for More Success With Less Stress by Robert Bly presents a collection of time management and productivity tips to help knowledge workers and other […]
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Changing an organization’s culture is extremely difficult. Doing so requires the alteration of the commonly held values of the entire workforce, beliefs that have been embedded in the organization’s policies and procedures and reinforced over an extended period of time; beliefs that many will hold as the company’s definition of right and wrong. Subsequently, changing a company’s culture will almost assuredly be met with significant resistance.
Innovation is the introduction of new things or methods and is the life blood of business today. Innovative companies realize remarkable marketplace rewards. The challenge before leaders is how to inspire their workforce to use the full measure of their creative power to advance the organization in new and better ways. The Business of Innovation […]
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Should you share your firm’s financial results with this staff? This is one of the questions that business owners face every day, and all too often the answer is no. But no is probably the wrong answer. An organization can very often improve performance and get its employees bought into it’s mission and purpose simply […]
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Think about if there were no guardrails on the freeway. It would be all too easy to run off the road and find yourself hurt and way off the fast track to your end destination. Business is a fast and zigzagging road – a road that needs guardrails to keep businesses and projects on track. […]
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The Individual Initiated, Knowledge and Skills Controlled Environment represents a culture that is moving toward greater consistency in action if not action initiation.
In providing research and developing training programs for various large corporations about managing change, we find that the biggest stumbling block for employees from top-down is lack of buy-in. Top executives have the vision, but often fail to get buy-in from managers who have to carry out the change initiative. This lack of buy-in trickles […]
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For a Powerful Presentation, Begin with a Bang, Finish with a Flourish
/in Business Communications/by Bill RosenthalPlanning a presentation? Once you’ve analyzed your audience and determined what you want to say, give lots of attention to the presentation’s two most critical parts: the opening and the close. They’re the parts the audience will remember best – and each of them serves a vital purpose. Begin with a Bang Begin the presentation […]
Leadership Inspirations – Experience
/in Leadership Inspirations/by StrategyDriven“Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.” Aldous Huxley (1894 – 1963) English writer, best know as the author of Brave New World
Five Ways to Land in the Executive Chair
/in Management & Leadership, Practices for Professionals/by Linda HenmanExecutives play in a bigger league; they play for higher stakes; and the game is for keeps. Doing the day-to-day, hands-on work doesn’t fit the job description of the executive; driving the strategy, developing the bench, and making high-caliber decisions have become the new coinage of the realm. When you understand who executives are, what […]
Recommended Resource – Make Every Second Count
/in Practices for Professionals, Recommended Resources/by StrategyDrivenMake Every Second Count: Time Management Tips and Techniques for More Success With Less Stress by Robert W. Bly About the Reference Make Every Second Count: Time Management Tips and Techniques for More Success With Less Stress by Robert Bly presents a collection of time management and productivity tips to help knowledge workers and other […]
Corporate Cultures – The Culture Change Penalty
/in Corporate Cultures, Premium/by StrategyDrivenChanging an organization’s culture is extremely difficult. Doing so requires the alteration of the commonly held values of the entire workforce, beliefs that have been embedded in the organization’s policies and procedures and reinforced over an extended period of time; beliefs that many will hold as the company’s definition of right and wrong. Subsequently, changing a company’s culture will almost assuredly be met with significant resistance.
The Business of Innovation – The Responsibility Revolution
/in Practices for Professionals, Recommended Resources/by StrategyDrivenInnovation is the introduction of new things or methods and is the life blood of business today. Innovative companies realize remarkable marketplace rewards. The challenge before leaders is how to inspire their workforce to use the full measure of their creative power to advance the organization in new and better ways. The Business of Innovation […]
Share Your Financial Results and Improve Performance
/in Business Communications/by Bill HettingerShould you share your firm’s financial results with this staff? This is one of the questions that business owners face every day, and all too often the answer is no. But no is probably the wrong answer. An organization can very often improve performance and get its employees bought into it’s mission and purpose simply […]
Guardrails: Keep Your Projects Out of the Weeds
/in Alternative Selection, Strategic Planning/by Rich ChristiansenThink about if there were no guardrails on the freeway. It would be all too easy to run off the road and find yourself hurt and way off the fast track to your end destination. Business is a fast and zigzagging road – a road that needs guardrails to keep businesses and projects on track. […]
Corporate Cultures – Individual Initiated, Rules and Standards Controlled Environment
/in Corporate Cultures, Premium/by StrategyDrivenThe Individual Initiated, Knowledge and Skills Controlled Environment represents a culture that is moving toward greater consistency in action if not action initiation.
Buy-In – The Imperative Strategy
/in Change Management/by Sarah Gee and Val GeeIn providing research and developing training programs for various large corporations about managing change, we find that the biggest stumbling block for employees from top-down is lack of buy-in. Top executives have the vision, but often fail to get buy-in from managers who have to carry out the change initiative. This lack of buy-in trickles […]