Teams
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 [...]
Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Conflict Management
At the broadest level, we define our identity by two things: -Who we are – our personality, our beliefs, values etc. -What we do – our actions, behavior, etc. We want others to accept us the way we are and to accept the way we do things. When either of these expectations is challenged, there [...]
Motivation – The Good, the Bad and the Confused
Why do we need to understand motivation? The fundamental reason is that it is the only way to create spontaneous and unexpected improvement in performance. Of course, performance can be improved through re-structuring of processes, by training and coaching staff better and any number of other good things in organizations that create incremental, linear improvement. [...]
Six Realities of Change Management
There are lot’s of things to take care of when introducing change in an organization – and there are lot’s of myths and hype as well about what works and what doesn’t. Change management is as complex as human beings are – so there aren’t any easy answers or recipes for success. But here’s a [...]
Well-Rounded Teams
This is a brief extract from an article by Tom Rath and Barry Conchie that is adapted from the book “Strengths Based Leadership” Individuals don’t have to be well-rounded, but teams should be Gallup research based on study of thousands of executive teams has indicated that while members of a team may have their own [...]
The Management Octagon – 8 Ingredients for Organizational Succcess
By Asad Zaidi Jack Welch, the great corporate giant who turned GE into a huge success, had a way of simplifying matters – he said that all things that are important in a business, whether it is a nuclear power plant or a corner grocery store, are the same : people, quality, service and cash [...]
