Training Assessment Education

Category: Management

  • Greyhound Racing or Education?

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    My Two Rescue Dogs Ethical dilemmas are by definition challenging. I am not condoning cruelty to animals but aren’t there more critical issues in the state of NSW than greyhound racing? Why not horse racing as well? In a recent ABC news article it is estimated that compensation to the industry and those connected to…

  • Good Human Resources at Last

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    This is a good HR story. I’ve been involved in restructures and closures with many people losing their jobs. Over the last 10 years I have observed many poor (in particular government) restructures, mergers and voluntary redundancy debacles. The article below outlines how Amazon is training its staff to have new jobs, that in many…

  • Managers and engaged staff

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    I have spent the last couple of weeks talking to different groups about management, leadership, engagement and performance. There are a lot of misconceptions in how all of this comes together and the article below is a good primer to the discussion. Some excellent figures which you can use when you discuss these topics with…

  • Toxic employees

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    I have been delivering a lot of training over the last few years on performance management and invariably there is a great deal of interest and discussion around poor performance and toxic employees. Below is a link to an informative and sadly funny infographic on the 5 types of toxic employees. See the graphic here

  • Mediocre Leadership Stinks

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    I listen to the participants in my programs discussing how lousy their managers are on way to many occasions.  Of course they could be wrong and maybe they are exaggerating their lousiness but the Australian study below tends to back these claims up. I don’t think the training we are offering managers will fix this…

  • Leadership Development – the right way!

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    I’m involved in a lot of leadership development programs and I am satisfied that they do a good job but they could do better. Time is typically the problem. Time and application. I have been lucky enough to do a few programs where the following article takes us but it is rare. A bit more…

  • Sunday Zephyr – Jobs

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    How is your Sunday going? Normally this post is light, something easy to read and a little off topic but I thought this Sunday it would be a good idea to examine the future of work. I have been considering this lately as I near the end of my working career ( wishful thinking). We…

  • Project Management Failure

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    I often talk to participants about project failure as it is more prevalent than project success. You can learn a lot from project failure. Here is an excellent article on four major project failures and what should have been done. Read the article here

  • Teamwork

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    I know that many of my readers are trainers who train managers to manage teams effectively. Some readers train people to be more effective in teams and others work in teams to produce a service or product. I do all of those things and I found the article below very useful. It’s a long read…