Recent Posts Tagged With 'goals'

• Change – Sticking With It

  Posted on Thursday July 10th, 2008 at 08:49 in goals, change, resilience, determination

  Change programmes fail far too often. In response organisations spend plenty of time planning the change (a sensible idea), launching it, communicating it (another must do), but still find themselves losing enthusiasm when the excitement of the new ...

• Building Teams With Spirit

  Posted on Wednesday March 12th, 2008 at 11:17 in goals, team building, trust, ownership, team dynamics, team effectiveness

  Last weekend presented plenty of opportunities to study team dynamics with both positive and negative outcomes. The FA Cup quarter finals provided a string of shock results with underdogs claiming wins in three out of the four games.Sports teams do ...

• Why Everyone Can’t Be Talented And How Some Organisations Deal With The Opportunity

  Posted on Wednesday February 27th, 2008 at 07:40 in goals, Vision, opportunity, values, talent, people investment, high performing organisations, distribution curve

  Given a standard distribution curve, the amount of really talented managers in business is going to be relatively small. The bulge of managers (as opposed to a manager’s bulge) will be around the middle, classified as average. If that point is then...

• What We’re Playing: Hannibal - Rome vs Carthage

  Posted on Thursday January 17th, 2008 at 08:57 in Strategy, goals, market share, creative strategies

  The long awaited reprint of Hannibal: Rome vs Carthage may look like a historical war game covering the Second Punic War, but plays as a fascinating battle for territory and resources. As such it works well as a market share game.Whilst getting Hanni...

• What We’re Reading: JPod

  Posted on Thursday October 25th, 2007 at 04:51 in goals, development, talent management, people investment, management development, succession planning

  Title: JPod Author: Douglas Coupland Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC (5 Jun 2006) ISBN: 074758222X Price: £12.99 Reviewer: Claudine McClean Douglas Coupland captured the spirit of an era with Generation X, a revealing portrait of slacker life...

• Our Version Of The Newspaper Silly Season

  Posted on Friday August 10th, 2007 at 04:03 in goals, performancemanagement, sales targets, business targets

  We thought you might enjoy some stories we’ve heard over the last 12 months as to why business targets haven’t been met, smile inducing unless you are paying the wages:A Japanese owned UK sales office has used the floods as a reason why there num...

• Start From Here

  Posted on Friday August 10th, 2007 at 04:00 in goals, Management, performance, people investment, high performing organisations, management development, performancemanagement

  Performance Management is a hot topic in many organisations as they struggle to define themselves as high performing businesses. The difficulty many face is that the organisation holds many different views about what performance management means and...

• Help Your Colleagues G.R.O.W.

  Posted on Friday July 6th, 2007 at 03:41 in goals, Management, Coaching, accountability, performancemanagement, resonsibility, g.r.o.w., total coaching

  One key role of any leader is to coach team members to achieve their best. As “coach”, you will typically help your team members to solve problems, make better decisions, learn new skills or otherwise progress in their role or career.Whilst some...