Archive for the ‘Performance Effectiveness’ Category

Emotional Intelligence: Go Ahead Cry, Laugh and Scream

A look of contemplation

It's okay to show your emotions

The concepts of emotional intelligence (EI), self-worth, authenticity and employee meditation used to tap employees’ emotional happiness are being picked up by mainstream corporations.

Brochner Hotels, one of Copenhagen’ s oldest and most successful boutique hotel chains, is one business discovering the benefits of …

What is Your Human Resource Story?

9-Box Tool

Charting Your Course

As the threat of falling back into a recession becomes more real with each passing day, employers are asking themselves, “What should we do now?” What makes it more challenging is that the trend in the most recent years has been slow recovery.

Employers may have designed …

Important Succession Planning Lessons From Steve Jobs

Steve Jobs while presenting the iPad

Steve Jobs

Steve Jobs has influenced computer design during his storied career but more importantly, he has influenced what it means to be a company leader. His idiosyncratic leadership style, hyperbolic presentations, and fiercely hands-on management approach have inspired the envy of executives and the fear of more than a …

How to Improve Communication within Your Organization

Blitz Strategy

What is your communication strategy?

It’s mid-season in the NFL.  Where first year coaches are winning and rookie quarterbacks are making a huge impact.

CEO’s looking to improve communication within their organization and enhance employee engagement can adopt an easy-to-use communication blitz strategy of their own.

Ultimately, it can help …

The Future is not iPads – Does Your Business have True Vision

iPad with on display keyboard

I have to first say that I have iPad envy or any tablet like devices that is just plain cool.  Last week, Microsoft posted a futuristic video which showed future-people working, playing, and living in a world filled with touch screens.

Many were impressed by the video and tweets went …

How to Link Learning and Behavioral Styles to Improve Performance

Learning and development professionals have long known that people learn in different ways. However, it is also true that people

Highlighting Performance

behave and respond to others’ behavior in a variety of ways.

Ideally, effective learning takes into account both a person’s learning style and behavioral style. Doing so results …