كاتب المشاركات Emergenetics International
Management vs Leadership – What’s the Difference?
There is a clear difference between management and leadership, but the question is what those differences are and how they are manifested. If there were one single, clear way to define both management and leadership, this wouldn’t be an issue. However, for every organization or leadership consultant or management specialist, there is a different definition.…
إقرأ المزيد3 Big Ideas to Motivate Employees
Employee motivation is obviously a critical issue for organizations of any size. The financial benefits have been proven—including by Wharton professor Alex Edmunds, and for anyone who’s ever worked in an organization where employees are motivated and engaged, the day-to-day difference in employee performance and the overall atmosphere is clear. Motivating employees makes a difference.…
إقرأ المزيدWhat a Job Analysis Can Reveal About Your Ideal Candidate
The very first thing you need to think about when you are using pre-employment testing to hire may not be what companies do first, but it should be. Let me give you a hint, it is not a pre-employment assessment but a pre-employment job analysis. Why is a job analyses the first step in pre-employment…
إقرأ المزيد3 Team Building Activities for the Workplace
When it comes to team building activities for the workplace, organizations are sometimes at a loss—what team building activities to do?—even wondering what benefit team building activities actually have for their employees and for the workplace. Why is this? Managers think team building activities are a waste of time. This is false; according to this…
إقرأ المزيدFour Tips for Improving Your Communication Skills
We read an interesting blog on how communication skills were dwindling in MBA testing and what that meant. The blog, from Knewton, a standardized testing prep company, reported that GMAT AWA (Analytical Writing Assessment) scores dropped in the last year. While the reasoning for the drop wasn’t analyzed, the greater question of what this means…
إقرأ المزيدWhat Are Your Problem Solving Strengths
Some people are better problem solvers than others— It’s a simple claim, but it’s one that I think doesn’t hold true. The key with problem solving is to hone in on strengths, to figure out where your problem-solving strengths lie. It makes sense on a personal and organizational level, because problem-solving strengths mean that each…
إقرأ المزيدThree Tips for Better Workplace Communication
How many times have you seen employee communication break down because of a misplaced or ill-timed remark, a conflicting personality element, or a top-down or silo approach to an issue or a project? It happens all the time, and often something this simple can derail initiatives, destroy relationships, and poison an atmosphere. So how do…
إقرأ المزيدLeadership Training Should Build On Preferences
Leadership is obviously an incredibly complex skill that encompasses a wealth of qualities, actions, behaviors and results. For as many aspects that go into leadership there are an equal number of trainings, suggestions, and how-to’s on making leaders more effective or creating leaders. I’m not in the camp that says “Great leaders are born not…
إقرأ المزيدTeam Management: The Pros and Cons
Team management…management by committee…collaborative management. Whatever you want to call it, the art of leadership through a team approach is a practice that is put into use by almost every company large and small to some extent. The idea being that team management can do two distinct things better than any one person: Team management…
إقرأ المزيدKnow Your Brain to Increase Job Satisfaction
I just got done reading a great article in the Harvard Business Review called Managing Yourself: What Brain Science Tells Us About How to Excel. In it, the author, Edward Hallowell, points to inherent brain science–the way we’re wired–as an indicator of how we can achieve greater happiness in our work. He considers five aspects…
إقرأ المزيد