HOT READS FOR THE PRACTITIONER
Title: Motivation – New Insights
Competencies: motivation, managing others
Who benefits: those interested in understanding what motivates us
Consultant Usage: excellent material for training classes which address issues of employee motivation
What’s it about? My colleague Ken Nowack, who writes the other weekly column on this Blog, loves to present the “facts”. If you like [...]
It was one of the finest performances of Sir Laurence Olivier’s life. And it was as Hamlet, his signature role. So his friends were amazed, when they rushed backstage, to find him in tears, rhythmically pounding his fist into his thigh.
“Larry,” one of his friends asked, “What’s wrong? That was the finest performance of your [...]
“The quality of leadership, more than any other single factor, determines the success or failure of an organization.”
Fred Fiedler & Martin Chemers
It’s not surprising that research suggests unequivocally that leadership has tremendous impact on talent engagement, retention and productivty1. Can leaders directly affect the health of talent to the extent that they are quickly [...]
Every week I check dozens of “career” blogs and other online publications, looking for things that will help you find a job, get promoted, develop your skills, and keep everything in perspective and balance. Here’s the pick of the lot for this week. I’m pointing you to items about communicating with your boss, a Free [...]
HOT READS FOR THE PRACTITIONER
Title: The Impulse Factor: An Innovative Approach to Better Decision Making
Competency: decision making/judgment
Who benefits: everyone
Consultant Usage: accompanying Impulse Factor Test can assist executive coaches, career counselors, and trainers
What’s it about? Are you a risk manager or a potential seeker … or somewhere in between? Do you dawdle and agonize over every [...]
After she breaks into the domicile of the Three Bears, Goldilocks makes herself at home. She eats their food, yummy porridge. More precisely, she eats some of it.
One bowl is too hot. Goldilocks passes on that one, along with the one where the porridge is “too cold.” Luckily for her, though not the bears, one [...]
“The value of a man resides in what he gives and not in what he is capable of receiving.”
Albert Einstein
One of my favorite motivational stories to tellis an adaption of the “starfish story” by Loren Eiseley and as many of you know popularized by Joel Barker. In the story, a man walking at the beach [...]
Every week I check dozens of “career” blogs and other online publications, looking for things that will help you find a job, get promoted, develop your skills, and keep everything in perspective and balance. Here’s the pick of the lot for this week. I’m pointing you to items about cell phones and interviews, networking up, [...]
HOT READS FOR THE PRACTITIONER
Title: Institute of Management Studies
Competency: self-development
Who benefits: employees of large organizations
Consultant Usage: excellent source for recommending training programs
What’s it about? Last week I wrote about a specific program sponsored by the Institute of Management Studies (IMS). As I was thinking about it over the past seven days it occurs to me [...]
A year ago, CJ Spiller had the opportunity to set himself up financially for life. All he had to do was say, “Yes” and enter the NFL draft.
But Spiller decided to stay at Clemson for his senior year. Lots of people, including his mother, thought he was crazy. Today newspapers like The State are running [...]