Develop Your Managers and Keep Your Staff (13 Jun 2006) Following on from the last edition of The Organised Times where we spoke about developing the people in your business, this week we're focussing on the importance of the continual development of your...
Develop Your People and Make More Money (13 Jun 2006) What is the no. 1 asset in your business beside yourself? It's your people.Then why is it they often fall to the bottom of the list when it comes to doing anything to help them improve their performa...
Developing Your Mission (13 Jun 2006) "The best Leader is one who knows how to pick good people to do what he or she wants done and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it." - Heidi Richards -
Dialogue vs. Discussion (13 Jun 2006) It's all about how you communicate with your team that determines their involvement - or lack of it!
Dialogue: the Four Dialogic Principles For Successful Communication (13 Jun 2006) At the heart of all management lies communication, and successful communication is not a one-to-one or one-to-many transaction, but a dialogue between interested parties. Successful dialogues rely on four principles: Reality, Reaction, Co-ordination and Purposefulness.
Difficult Employees-Poor Performance - 10 Tips for Dealing with it in the Workplace (13 Jun 2006) Despite all our best efforts at "managing", we have very little control over other people's actions, including the people that work with or for us. We can inspire, motivate, guide or threaten them, but the choice to act in a certain way is up to the individual.
Difficult Staff - It Pays To Get To Know Them Better (13 Jun 2006) We're not just talking about difficult members of your team; we're talking about all of them and how important it is to understand them as individuals.
It's important because it's important to them.
Directed Introspection (13 Jun 2006) One of the greatest obstacles to progress can often be our awareness of past failures. If we tried something a couple of years ago and fell flat on our faces (and especially if we were ridiculed or derided as a result) we tend to be reluctant to rock the boat again. When we believe that history will repeat itself, we become paralysed by fear.
Disaster Prevention Tips For Hiring A New Manager (13 Jun 2006) It happens over and over in businesses every day. Within large companies, people are promoted to management positions to reward them for performance as individual contributors. After all, the compen...
Discover the Astonishing Power of Words Today! (13 Jun 2006) Picture all the people you know who are dynamic, successful and self-confident. The ones who are the stars of every gathering. The scintillating personalities who can be relied upon to light up every occasion.
Dissenion Down On The Cubicle Farm (13 Jun 2006) Only 29% of people are crazy about their jobs. The other 71% have jobs that drive them crazy. Find out why and what employers can do to change this.
Diversity in the Workplace (13 Jun 2006) As you look around your office, is everyone just like you? Probably not. The demographics of the American workforce have changed dramatically over the last 50 years. In the 1950s, more than 60% of th...
Diversity in the Workplace: Benefits, Challenges and Solutions (13 Jun 2006) This articles investigates the issues surrounding growing and leveraging a diverse workforce of varying race, gender, ethnicity, age, personality, cognitive style, tenure, organizational function, education, and background within your organization. In this article, AlphaMeasure helps to define diversity in the workplace and better understand the benefits and challenges a diverse workforce means to your organization.
DIVERSITY is a BIG word -- With A HUGE Business IMPACT (13 Jun 2006) First thought! YOU are probably way ahead of us. Your
business is diversified. Your portfolio (stocks) have
been carefully and deliberately diversified too. Other
pitfalls are lurking in the background for easy plucking.
Diversity Training: The Worst Possible Reasons to Request Executive Funding (13 Jun 2006) Most members of diversity committees feel passionately about diversity training. The way they pursue funding, though, can actually work against them. Here's a concrete recommendation for putting yourself on the same side of the table with your executives so they're more likely to fund your projects.
Dividing The Loot (13 Jun 2006) It is when the going gets better, that the going gets tough. This enigmatic sentence bears explanation: when a firm is in dire straits, in the throes of a crisis, or is a loss maker - conflicts ...
Do Customers Like the Feel of Your Organization? (13 Jun 2006) What is the emotional energy like in your organization? Does it attract customers or does it cause them to flee? Most organizations exude some form of negative energy that causes them to lose customers. Do you know what causes it in your organization? Do you want to clear it and its negative effects on your bottom line?
Do the People in Your Organisation Dress For Success? (13 Jun 2006) What really amazes me, with all the personal and professional development seminars people attend, from executives in corporate world, business owners and employees alike, very little investment has b...
Do You Hear That? (13 Jun 2006) 70% of workplace errors happened because of communication breakdown. Many are a direct result of a lack of listening skills.
Do you know what type of listener you are and how it affects you?
