Learning and Engagement
Double your Presentation Impact
Delivering effective presentations is a skill that is polished with practice and experience and there are no magic short-cuts. But here are some simple communication strategies that you can easily use to create additional impact in your presentation no matter where you are on the experience curve…
Keys to Self Development
Based on research by Center for Creative Leadership (CCL) These are ideas, strategies and tactics that CCL has developed and refined over many years working with large numbers of clients and many kinds of organizations Job assignments and the kinds of jobs people have done are crucial in the role of leadership development. CCL has [...]
Employee Engagement
A summarized extract from a series of internet articles by Peter Grazier Most managers find it not so hard to get proficient in technical aspects of their work, in operations and in processes. But they often struggle with people related matters such as interpersonal communication, handling conflict, motivation, resistance to change etc because this has [...]
Fringe Benefits of Failure, and the Importance of Imagination
A reproduction of the commencement address by J.K. Rowling of Harry Potter fame at Harvard University – copyright June 2008 President Faust, members of the Harvard Corporation and the Board of Overseers, members of the faculty, proud parents, and, above all, graduates, The first thing I would like to say is ‘thank you.’ Not only [...]
7-S McKinsey Framework
If you want to look at a framework for the purpose of change management and organizational development, you may want to study the 7-S framework. This is a model that describes how to organize to effectively organize and manage the various elements of an organization in an integrated manner. Consider this as just an introduction [...]
What Bill Gates said at Harvard University
President Bok, former President Rudenstine, incoming President Faust, members of the Harvard Corporation and the Board of Overseers, members of the faculty, parents, and especially, the graduates: I’ve been waiting more than 30 years to say this: “Dad, I always told you I’d come back and get my degree.” I want to thank Harvard for [...]
8 Principles of Learning
In the late 1990s, a team of researchers including staff from Xerox PARC (Palo Alto Research Center) studied how learning takes place in organizations. Their conclusions which were very insightful then are even more relevant today. Another dimension that is interesting about these findings is equal relevance to any kind of learning, whether within a [...]
