Mar
27

Be the Entrepreneur of Your Own Career

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To develop an entrepreneurial spirit in yourself and others you must develop in yourself and encourage in others a desire to seek feedback on performance from external customers. This tends to come hard to those more attuned to seeking acceptance from organization members interested in systems and delivery issues (often, senior management). One way to… Continue reading »

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Mar
21

A Key fo Creating the Ultimate Self Development Program

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The Ultimate “Soft Skills” Career Development Plan If a survey of employers conducted by Hart Research Associates released Jan 20 2010 on behalf of the Association of American Colleges and Universities is anything to go by, if you want to commercially focus your personal development program, perhaps you should consider their results. Early on in… Continue reading »

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Mar
08

Why Customers Abandon You and Quick Tips on Stemming the Flow

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A survey by The Canadian Manufacturers Association on why customers abandoned their suppliers revealed that: [  1% ]  was lost because of death [  3% ]  were lost when their salesmen left the company [  5% ]  left to buy from a friend or relative [  9% ]  left because they found they could buy… Continue reading »

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Mar
04

SUGGESTIONS FOR MANAGING CULTURE AT WORK

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The difficulties with culture at work! To continue from the last blog post… so what can (and should) we do to at least improve our workplace interactions and the state of sub-cultural understanding? Cultural Management points: • Train individuals to understand their own and others ‘Personal Work Style Preferences’ and ‘Personality Type’ through the use… Continue reading »

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Mar
03

LEADING AND MANAGING CULTURAL ISSUES AT WORK

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As leaders we need to facilitate formal individual and structured interdepartmental interactions to provide different sub-cultures, which all organizations have, with a forum to learn of each other’s frustrations, priorities and core values. Interdepartmental teams formed to work together to develop interface understanding and solutions to cultural difficulties and opposing work priorities can be a… Continue reading »

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