Posts Tagged ‘human resources’
Podcast – Delegation (Outsourcing) and Keeping a Focus on Strategy and Results
Delegation and Outsourcing Share a Common Management Focus on What Needs To be Done, What Are the Results Required, and When?
Book Review – 12 The Elements of Great Managing and Making These Actionable
The Gallup Organization has been publishing books on management and high performance organizations regularly for quite some time. The encouraging elements in all of them are that they are based on real data from real people about real work. I have recommended two earlier books from Gallup, Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman, First, Break All [...]
Delegation (Outsourcing) and Keeping a Focus on Strategy and Results
Yesterday I was scanning through the Tweets from my friend Bruce Peters and came across a reference to a blog posting by Bernadette Doyle, "Discern Your Strengths - Delegate The Rest". Its always good to return to these complementary concepts – strengths and delegation (outsourcing), so I read on. Ms. Doyle's concatenation of "delegation" [...]
Podcast – Three Counter-Intuitive Steps to Becoming a More Effective Manager
Be a More Effective Manager - stop answering those questions, seize your time, and it's your fault
Three Counter-Intuitive Steps to Becoming a More Effective Manager
Become a More Effective Manager - Three Counter-Intuitive Steps In the world of planning and strategy, there is a truism that too much planning, too much detail, too much analysis, leads to inaction, to a loss of opportunity. Along the same line of observation, in the world of learning to becoming a more effective manager, there can be too [...]
Results Focus
Our coaching always relates to strategies and tasks that produce better results. We measure our work with clients based on these results. Clients keep working with us because of their results. Business coaching results come in three areas: Customer This means revenue, profits, and number of customers. For managers of internal [...]
It’s Always Your Fault – taking responsibility for personnel – Podcast
Become a more effective manager by taking responsibility for your personnel. The podcast is 4 minutes long. This is a podcast version of the earlier posting here.
It’s Always Your Fault – taking responsibility for personnel
Attracting, selecting, training and mentoring, and pruning human resources are among the most important tasks a manager confronts. Almost everyone agrees that, at the top level of organizations, managers need to be devoting a significant portion of their time addressing the people needs of the firm. Without the right people in the right positions, [...]
