Management Articles & News
Management Coaching Vs. Performance Appraisals
The question often comes up, “Isn’t management coaching a lot like the familiar performance appraisal process?” Our answer is that the two are dramatically different. The CMOE team originally became interested in the coaching process because of our experiences with the deficiencies of performance appraisal. We were asked to devise a customized performance appraisal system, along with a training program, for a Fortune 500 corporation. After working through the resistance that naturally ...
Employees Need Some Perspective
Would you like to have your employees walk a few miles in your shoes? Looking for a simple way to explain the flow of the revenue and expenses for your business? Want to change the perspective on the gap between wages and amounts charged to customers? Adapt this exercise to your small business situation.
Beyond Management Coaching: When Things Are Getting Out Of Control
Leaders and Managers often ask us, ‘What do you do when you have tried to coach and counsel an employee about a performance concern, and the employee has not responded?
Seven Reasons Why Your Company Needs An E-mail Policy
Everyone at the office thought that using the company e-mail system to share jokes and funny stories was great fun. That is, until one offended employee decided to sue his employer for having helped to create a hostile work environment.
Five Principles of Effective Communication
The problem with communication is the illusion that it has occurred. George Bernard Shaw
Tales from the Corporate Frontlines: A New Manager's Tale
This article relates to the Manager/Supervisor competency, commonly evaluated in employee satisfaction surveys. This competency evaluates an employee's feelings regarding their direct manager or supervisor. The manager/supervisor competency covers topics like clarity of goals, manager support, coaching and feedback, and regular reviews of performance. The old adage that "people leave their managers, not organizations" is often true. Of all the workplace stressors, a bad immediate manager ...
Tales from the Corporate Frontlines:Choosing an Effective Employee Recognition Program
This article relates to the Recognition competency, commonly evaluated in employee satisfaction surveys. It tells the story of how one company found the right recognition program by paying attention to employee feedback. This competency also explores what type of behavior is appreciated and rewarded within your organization. Studies show that employees who receive regular recognition and praise are more likely to increase their individual productivity levels, increase engagement with their ...
How to Manage Your People Well: Tips for Managers of Training
As a training manager, there are two important aspects to managing your people well: hiring, supervising, and motivating (managing with your people) and building up corporate support for your department (managing for your people). Unfortunately, training is not well understood by some executives, and its benefits can be hard to assess. Even a good training manager’s department risks cuts by cost-conscious administrators convinced that training is an unnecessary expense. In The Secret of My ...
The Ins and Outs of Internal and External Relations
INTERNAL PUBLIC RELATIONS: Never overlook an opportunity to do internal public relations about your department and its offerings. A training department must, first and foremost, be visible in the organization it serves. Larry Lottier, Manager, Education of Dana Corporation publishes a training department course catalog with faculty, course listings and course descriptions to publicize his department’s offerings. Gary Slobodian, Assistant Manager, Corporate Staff Development, of Great-West ...
Align The Enterprise & Make Beautiful Music Together
Q: Why is a great business like a great marching band? A: The players in both organizations are in alignment. Alignment? Yes, Alignment. When a marching band passes by in a parade, the columns and rows are in straight alignment, the band members are all in-step, they play in-tune, and they are all playing the same music. Alignment separates the great from the good from the mediocre from the awful. It’s the same in business. A great business is also in ...
Coaching Employees in the Workplace
After a full week of training, you are still a little nervous about your new job. All of the information you need to digest, the new environment you are adjusting to, and the new faces you will be getting acquainted with is just a bit overwhelming.
Training Managers and New Trainers
Training managers use many of the same interpersonal and analytical skills that other types of departments use. In particular, they need to be good communicators, and highly skillful in interpersonal relations. They need to delegate effectively, support their staff emotionally, give accurate and timely feedback, and set departmental goals that are consistent with organizational goals. Barbara L. Thornton, an independent training consultant in the St. Paul area, says that training managers ...
The Survey Feedback Process for Organizational Development and Change
THE PURPOSE OF SURVEY FEEDBACK: In globally competitive environments, organizations are seeking information about obstacles to productivity and satisfaction in the workplace. Survey feedback is a tool that can provide this type of honest feedback to help leaders guide and direct their teams. Obstacles and gaps between the current status quo and the desired situations may or may not be directly apparent. In either case, it is vital to have a clear understanding of ...
What Is Knowledge Management - Knowing What We Know?
The paper aims to identify the role human factors play in determining the success or failure or knowledge management initiatives.
The Hardest Job Of A Trade Show
You’ve heard this before: There were four people named Everybody, Somebody, Anybody and Nobody.
Motor Vehicle Policy and Your Employee Risks
It is becoming more common for employers to require employees to use their personnel motor vehicles for business use. Reimbursement for business use is commonly by way of a kilometre/mileage allowance or a general motor vehicle allowance for the year.
Take This Into Consideration Before You Write Your Mission Statement
What principles should a company keep in mind when developing a mission statement? Appropriate criteria must be chosen for defining the business. There are several alternatives for defining one’s services: by the products one produces, by unique resources that the company possesses, by a particular strength that the company has, by unique financial measures, or by needs that are met. Anyone who has to draft a mission statement should pretend that he or she is an advertising copywriter. “Tell ...
On Line Stock Trading ... How Do Short Term Momentum Traders Profit When Stocks Go Up Or Down ?
Success in short term stock trading like with any other business in life comes from being able to see the big picture and from paying attention to the small details.
How To Define A Successful Time Management Strategy
One of the most challenging aspect in life is time management. In the current fast changing environment, time management is very important in both your personal and official life. There are a lot of time management techniques to control your day to day activities and can be used as a guide to make educated and effective decisions as to how to make the best and the most effective use of your time.
Energize Your Organization
No matter what you do, it seems, your employees do only what’s absolutely necessary to get along. You’ve handed out raises across the board year after year. You’ve been as generous as you can be with various incentives. Now you’re at wits end. You ask in frustration, “What will it take to motivate my employees?”
Sex, Drugs, & Rock n Roll: Trade Show Traps and Tips
Sex, Drugs & Rock-n-Roll Here’s the Scenario... You’re at a trade show. Out of town. It’s probably an unfamiliar city. Maybe overseas. Lots of strangers. There’s a client or two. A couple of buddies. Lots of opportunities to do business. Lots of opportunities to get yourself in a bind. This Commentary is about how to stay out of trouble, save your dignity and keep your job. Trade shows are hard work - both physically and emotionally. It’s tiring to travel. ...
Time Management and Team Development The Yes and No of It
Sometimes. In fact making some small changes to the circumstances when we use these two little words, can make all the difference. And it takes practice. Saying 'Yes' More... ...brings help when we are offered it. How often have you turned down support, because it felt easier to say 'No thanks. I'm fine'? How often have you rejected assistance in all sorts of places and circumstances? Sometimes it seems like the ...
Rapid Culture Change is Possible
Purpose: Show how immersion leadership training makes strategic initiative success possible.
8 Line Items of a Trade Show Budget
Budget Guidelines for Trade Show Marketing B’techa didn’t know - Trade shows are the second largest expenditure of corporate marketing dollars in the US. Only the field salesperson costs a company more. How much of that money is wasted? Oodles - if you don’t know what you’re doing and how to track it. Clients often ask, “How much does it cost to do a trade show?” It can be a little or a lot. Remember - a tabletop show at a Chamber of Commerce networking event will ...
Summertime Blues
It’s hard to believe the year will be half over in just a few weeks. All the planning you did is either turning out great, coming along slowly but surely or hasn’t really gotten off the ground because other issues keep getting in the way.
Psychic Discoveries Behind The Iron Curtain
We can ask the reader to see if the T-square of the Masons which Churchward details has a 50,000 year history, which we have dealt with, has any application in this report you might remember from Psychic Discoveries Behind The Iron Curtain that formed a large part of my early knowledge in these matters. These devices had been inspired, they (Ostrander and Schroeder of the American teaching profession who wrote this remarkable book.) were told, by archaic manuscripts and forgotten ...
Guard Your Thoughts
They once asked Bruce Lee, the famous martial arts movie star, his opinion on negative thoughts. He said, “Negative thoughts are like weeds in your garden. You must pull them out by the roots and destroy them.”
The Limitations Of Vision...
The Limits of my Vision Terry Dashner…………Faith Fellowship Church PO Box 1586 Broken Arrow, OK 74013 Even if you have 20/20 vision, you can see only a fraction of the splendor that’s around you. There are ranges of color that our physical eyes cannot perceive. For instance, we see a spectrum from red to violet, yet beyond red is infrared, beyond violet is ultraviolet, and so on in great unimaginable reaches that we never perceive because of our physical limitations. Physical ...
Synchronicity And Serendipity
It is hard to capture the synchronicity of this next post. I can only assure you that I was working on integrating these things for this book and this post from a healer came through in answer to my directed thought or intent-ional request. Intent is a vital element of magical operations. Here is my response to this post I believe helped me integrate these thoughts.
God V. Gods
Aristotle referred to happiness as the most we can achieve. Demons and gods were interchangeable in the time of Homer when people had far less institutionalized manipulation of their thoughts and soulful understandings. What is the ‘anima’ referred to by Aristotle and other sages?