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The majority of leaders recognise that maintaining the status quo and wallowing in complacency can have disastrous consequences. The fast-changing environment is creating new problems week after week, and the operation is bleeding from more and more wounds. It is inevitable that management has to fi...
- the most important of all the new features is that the logic of “levels” in our microlearning courses has been replaced by the system of learning journeys
- there are pre-set learning journeys compiled by our experts for a variety ...
When they complain about performance issues in their teams, they quickly come to a popular saying that they hired adults and are not going to babysit a person with several years of experience. They don’t want to micromanage their team members.
- They often have far too little understanding of wha...
Their approach was the following: they identified those people in the organisation who did something really well, boiled down the gist of their expertise into bite-sized microlearning units that can be consumed in 3 minutes through the mobile phones of their sales people across a huge number of thei...
Most managers learned about basic goal setting theory during their university studies or at corporate leadership training programs. Some even remember what the letters in the SMART acronym stand for, and try to take into account some of those attributes. As a matter of fact, it is not so difficult t...
I have similar feelings when (1) I have to admit that I have limited knowledge even in my area of practice, i.e. people and leadership development, but (2) when I would like to share with someone what we teach, why and how, I need to start from the very beginning and it needs detailed explanation. T...
One: relevant and honest positive feedback boosts motivation. Two: if you neglect giving feedback shortly after you see something you disapprove of, feelings of growing frustration will develop in your heart as you see the same behaviour again and again, and it will probably burst out with the least...
One is to mentally exit the meeting, start playing with your phone or answer e-mails. The other option is taking the lead and turning the meeting into a worthwhile conversation that focuses on finding a solution to the problem. You can do that by asking some questions that direct the attention of th...
As the well-known theorist, Abraham Maslow asserted, these needs have a hierarchical order with the prerequisite of lower level needs to be fulfilled first, before we can start focusing on the top ones in the pyramid. Alderfer further distilled these thoughts to state that humans have three categori...
Otherwise, decent pay is the baseline. If you wish to stand out from the crowd and build on an array of motivators that is available, it makes a lot of sense to abandon the mindset that people only work for their pay check.
Let’s start with the results a very recent global survey from 2018, carried o...
In a 2018 BCG global study, among the Top 5 work preferences were “good relationship with superior”, “learning opportunities”, and “career development”, all of which are closely associated with their direct boss acting as coach or mentor.
When managers are practicing a coaching approac...
Let’s review three actions you can take to ensure that your actual use of time reflects your true priorities.
1. Enlist your most important goals in your key roles for the next 6 months
We have several roles both at work and in our private life. We are specialists, functional managers, people managers...
“A few years ago I put it like this for myself – it will probably sound harsh – the opinion of people does not raise my interest. The reason is that the meaning of the word ‘opinion’ is not very rich. Maybe there is no knowledge, depth or truth in it. (…) nowadays everyone has an opinion. Lots of pe...
Most recently, this myth has developed even further: instead of training events, brief infotainment sessions are offered to busy managers, providing opportunities for “inspiration”. Managers at international or large local companies went through traditional leadership trainings a long time ago (not ...
For me, it says that however good these initiatives are intended they have minor impact on improving engagement. When we consider the reports of Towers Watson’s Global Workforce Survey or Gallup’s Global Workplace Survey about employee engagement, they conclude that only 11-27% of the employees...
Despite the fact that our research work has not been representative, there are several interesting findings for those involved in developing leaders.
Even though the use of leadership development initiatives and feedback systems have stagnated or even slightly decreased over the past five years, mana...
This group consists of 7 friends, businessmen aged between 35 and 45. For several years, they have met for breakfast on Thursdays at 7.45. Believe it or not, every single Thursday.
The team is very diverse: managers from small firms and large companies, local and multinational, employees and entrepre...
Let me lead you through this…
In the beginning, each skill we try to obtain is in box A, it means we can’t do it yet.
Do we progress by choosing a few things we can’t do well, then we learn how to do it, we practice a lot and we’ll be able to do it extraordinarily? Is this really how we develop e...
