Posts Tagged ‘FUEL’

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 …

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 …

Managing the ‘Very’ Difficult Employee

'Problem' Employees

A new study, by Susan L. Ettner, Joanna Catherine MacLean, and Michael T. French indicated that:

  • 18 percent of adult men
  • 16 percent of adult women

have personality disorders that adversely affect how they think and act in the workplace. The study examined personality disorders through face-to-face interviews …

Leading a Corporate Turnaround

Business Performance

Corporate Business Performance

In an organization with deteriorating performance, some of the most important roles are those responsible for creating a new strategy and securing the talent to make that strategy successful. Organizations that have successfully overcome negative momentum often do so by securing new leadership with a proven ability …

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 …