Category Archives: communication

Guidelines for Managing Your Mentor Relationships

by Lois Zachary One of my favorite children’s stories is Seven Blind Mice. I was rearranging my bookshelf last week and I reread the story for the first time in many years. It struck me that this familiar tale offers … Continue reading

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Build a Team with Entrepreneurial Attributes

Entrepreneurship Management E-learning Course Change Management E Learning “In today’s fast-changing business environment, organizations tell us that their #1 goal is to improve their ‘business agility’ – their ability to understand market changes, rapidly adapt, and operate as a globally … Continue reading

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Are Your Employees Just Waiting to Bolt?

by Holly Green The employment pendulum seems to be swinging back to the employee side. How do you keep employees from getting “happy feet” when their job options increase? Here’s some interesting news. According to the Department of Labor, unemployment … Continue reading

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How to Ignite a Winning Culture with just 10% Support

by Holly Green  Want to spread an idea like wildfire throughout your organization? Start with getting one out of every 10 people to passionately care about winning. As business leaders, everything we do should focus on setting our organizations up to … Continue reading

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How Pixar Powers Its Creativity through Employee Engagement

by Michael Lee Stallard At the technical Academy Awards ceremony in Hollywood, the Associated Press reported that it wasn’t the gorgeous host, actress Jessica Biel, who attracted the most attention. Instead, it was an understated, bespectacled, computer engineer named Ed … Continue reading

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Why Asking Why is So Important To Spotting Opportunity

Y is a crooked letter. That’s what a dear friend’s mother used to tell him when she was exhausted by all his questioning when he was a young boy. At some point, he learned to obey his teachers, parents and bosses. Didn’t … Continue reading

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What’s the Price You’re Willing to Pay for Success?

There is an obstacle standing between you and success. It’s placed directly between you and that which you most desire. If you cannot overcome this obstacle, you will never have what you want. It’s impossible. If you can overcome this … Continue reading

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How to Listen for Peak Performance and Effective Decision-Making

Getting to the next level of greatness depends on the quality of the culture, which depends on the quality of relationships, which depend on the quality of conversations. Everything happens through conversation!-Judith E. Glaser Using navigational listening, the art of … Continue reading

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How to Improve Your Odds of Success with Change Management

“Only a third of excellent companies remain excellent for decades, and when organizations try to transform themselves, even fewer succeed” Scott Keller and Colin Price, authors of Beyond Performance. That’s a tough hurdle. It’s as if companies are designed to … Continue reading

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Winning a Jack Welch HR Gossip Assessment

“With typical candor and color, Jack Welch said, ‘We always had one hell-of-ah gossip session after every meeting.’ I’ve heard of the meeting before the meeting to organize and plan outcomes. But I’d never heard of the meeting after the … Continue reading

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