Posts Tagged ‘business’

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 …

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 …

Talent Drain on the Brain

Missing talent

Missing talent in your organization

As most American companies continue their ongoing emergence from the recession, they are faced with a significant problem: Despite persistent levels of high unemployment, there is an increasingly serious dearth of the highly skilled talent they require to remain competitive.

To some degree, the recession …

How to Motivate and Retain Knowledge Workers in Organizations

Retain Your Knowledge Workers

Globalization, the proliferation of technology, workforce diversity, and the knowledge society are creating complex workplace interactions that require people to handle ambiguity and solve problems based on experience or tacit knowledge. Knowledge workers who have the ability to:

  • process
  • synthesize
  • generate knowledge

In order to problem-solve …

Leadership in the Workplace: Back To School Basics For Small Business Owners

Business Seminar

Great leaders never stop learning

Great leaders are also great learners and in order to lead other individuals successfully, supervisors managers and business owners need to take part in strong leadership training programs.

Such programs should address such topics as listening and communicating effectively, giving negative feedback in a way …