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…

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.…

Engagement

On the Subject of Employee Engagement.

Every employee has had their fair share of office horror stories. The “We need to talk”, the HR audit, the micromanager, and the dreaded annual appraisal. These things have been the fear of many an employee since time immemorial. Sometimes, there’s nothing to be afraid of, if you’re performing well, that is. But what if…