The Road to Empowerment

The Road to Empowerment

The ultimate goal is delegation. When I conduct training on People Handling Skills, I say that it is the ultimate goal, to get people ready for empowerment.  It is not an easy journey to take.  To empower people when they are not ready is to empower incompetence, it does not bid well for anyone.  There are two…

Strategic Thinking

Why Build Your Employees’ Strategic Thinking Skills?

First of all, strategic thinking is not strategic planning or management.  The latter is a by-product of the former.  Wikipedia defines it as “a mental or thinking process applied by an individual in the context of achieving success in a game or other endeavor.”  Now, who doesn’t want their employees to be success-oriented?  Everybody does.  But teaching…

Open Space Technology ExeQserve

Using World Café and Open Space Technology for Strategy Development and Planning

ExeQserve, one of the Philippines leading HR and Training consulting companies recently conducted a two-day planning session for a global banking organization.  We chose to facilitate the workshop using two conversation methodologies; World Café and Open Space Technology or OST to enhance collaboration among participants. World Café is a simple, effective, and flexible method of…

training design and development

Balancing Management and Leadership

By Edwin C. Ebreo Managing is not the opposite of Leading. Being a leader doesn’t mean departing from managing. When you search the web for comparison between management and leadership you seem to get this comparison between good and evil, as if one needs to choose between managing and leading. As a training consultant in…

communication

Improve Communication to Improve Performance

It’s amazing how much money is spent on strategy, process improvements and technology and not a lot on the one thing that can render all of them useless – Communication. I’m not just talking about communication skills here, although it’s part. This is about building an environment and culture that encourages, no, require open communication.…