Organizational Development
Executive MBA – Are You Thinking About It?
Here are some potential areas of benefit of pursuing an Executive MBA for working professionals. Not all may be applicable in each case but quite a few will be directly relevant to you:
Enhancing Your Influence – 3 Steps
Much of what we use consciously or sub-consciously to influence or persuade people around us doesn’t actually work. This is because more often than not influencing turns out to be some form of coercion. In some cases, it is winning the argument without winning over the person. Here are 3 things you can do in [...]
Motivation by Vroom
An explanation of the Expectancy Theory of motivation from the 1970s as proposed by Victor Vroom, a business school professor at the Yale School of Management. This is still very relevant and an accurate depiction of what motivates individuals in organizations…
Business Quotes to Remember
Here are some selected business quotes that can help us to stop, think, reflect and who knows, maybe even modify how we behave: 1. The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same – Carlos Castaneda
Effective Interviewing – 5 Steps
Most managers conduct job interviews without any structure or strategy or method. Without a strategy and methodology, you end up selecting a person based on an overall impression and intuition rather than a scrutiny of the applicant’s abilities and potential.
The 5 Stages of Employee Value
Employees of any kind of organization have to progress through various stages of providing value to their employer. These stages or steps are not always expressed formally by the employer nor are these always properly understood or appreciated by the employee. But these are nonetheless always there and it will be useful for you to [...]
Communication Styles
Based on an extract from an MIT USA course on communications Research indicates that each of us has a default communications style from one of the following: -Analyst – data focus -Innovator – creative focus -Producer – results focus -Diplomat – people focus We may have some qualities from all four of the above but [...]
