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…

People Management Workshop for Diversey

People are the most complex of all resources that a manager or supervisor has to deal with. In order to work effectively with people, managers must learn to adapt their style to a particular persons’ current situation and disposition. Managers must learn how and when to choose directing, coaching, supporting and delegating. They must also…

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…