Category: Management
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Measuring business in a different way
Photo by Caju Gomes on Unsplash Interesting video below on measuring the intangible stuff in business. The guy, Chip Conley also wrote a book on this. The link below has some great points but check out the Emotional Equations. I have used some in training. Useful and fun. Link to emotional equations. Can’t see the video – click…
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Leaders and learning
Photo by Daniil Silantev on Unsplash I am in Melbourne today training the senior managers at BMW. Below is a good article on leaders and the importance of learning. Read the article here
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Ethics and doing the right thing
Photo by rawpixel.com on Unsplash I was delivering a two day session last week on ethics and governance in the public sector. Sounds pretty dull but it is actually very interesting especially the debates we had around ethical dilemmas in the workplace. I found this video this week which contains a very interesting experiment on ethics. You might…
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Hiring not Training
I have been talking to a lot of organisations over the last few months about performance and performance management. A lot of the issues come from poor hiring. Training can’t fix this. Get the wrong person and basically you are stuck with the wrong person, Training is not going to fix that. I’ll let Google…
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Getting control of your time
Photo by Steven Hille Below is a great video which might be useful for you and your participants. Can’t see the video – click here
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Do managers matter?
Photo by Tran Mau Tri Tam A good video from Google in defense of managers. Good tips on effective management. Can’t see the video – click here
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The Millennials
Photo by Ian Schneider I have read a lot of rubbish about millennials and how to manage them in the workplace. There is also quite a considerable pile of rubbish written about them in the training room. I watched the video below recently and it is the best explanation and process that I have heard yet.…
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Leadership
Photo by Bethany Legg A good video of a different approach to effective leadership. Hope you can use it sometime. Watch the video here at HBR
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The Best Teams
Photo by James Thomas Please watch the video below of Charles Duhigg discussing how to assemble a team that works. Can’t see the video – click here
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Open plan, hot desking, small offices: What is Best?
During a number of my recent presentations on innovation, motivation and performance I have referred to office design as a way of encouraging people to be creative and innovative. It started to occur to me that apart from all of the examples I had seen and experienced myself as an employee I wasn’t really sure…