Posts Tagged ‘management’
Coaching Process
What is The Coaching Process? If you like graphical representations, here is an explosion of the key elements in a coaching session. Scroll down (click here instead) below for a narrative description. A Coaching Session A coaching session is a hands-on work with you, owner and leader of a start-up or small businesses. I apply strong [...]
The 6 New Management Imperatives by Bruce Temkin – comments
Bruce Temkin has published a free book on his blog ((experiencematters.wordpress.com)), The 6 New Management Imperatives - Leadership Skills for a Radically Changed Business Environment. Mr. Temkin sets out to define a "new set of skills" for managers. These are the 6 new imperatives: Invest in culture as a corporate asset Make listening [...]
Proven Checklist for Business Success – How Do You Put Them Into Action?
I receive a regular email titled, "Management Intelligence...... from Edward de Bono and Robert Heller" ((http://www.thinkingmanagers.com/)) . Their most recent email was "Management Intelligence: A proven checklist for business success". Here is the checklist they provided: "DO YOU... IMPROVE basic, measured efficiencies [...]
Learning To Be Effective – comments on Kelley’s How To Be a Star At Work
Learning to be an effective manager is almost entirely a self-guided learning enterprise. Almost no business schools even approach the topic despite the hundreds of courses they offer on almost every functional aspect of management ((see Henry Mintzberg, Managers Not MBAs: A Hard Look at the Soft Practice of Managing and Management Development, [...]
Time Management – is now the time to get beyond this distracting oxymoron?
Time management is an extremely popular topic. Is this productive? A Google search for the phrase "time management" returns the droll news that there are more than 14,900,000 responses. Amazon lists 448 books with 'time management" in the title or subject line. A similar search on Youtube.com returns over 2,000 videos about time [...]
More about the High Performance Management
Key principles and practices of the high performance management flow from extensive practical work Toyota Production System (TPS) lean manufacturing, lean enterprise (all of this flowing from Toyota's fifty years of innovation) ((There really is no independent organization that represents "lean". Nevertheless, the Lean Institute is a great [...]
Services
Business coaching is what we do. We offer business coaching to owners and managers in small and medium size businesses and non-profits. This coaching is telephone-based with Web support. This means that as required we will review and discuss documents viewed together over the Web. Coaching comes in a number of sizes and flavors. Choose [...]
Podcast – Multitasking, Too Much Information, Interruptions and High Performance
Multitasking is worse than a myth; it is a fraud and a thief. Other lessons learned This podcast is 7 minutes 24 seconds long. You can read the text here.
Multitasking, Too Much Information, Interruptions, and High Performance
Last week I ran into a little book (it really is little, 135 pages in a 5" x 7" format - very easy on the hand and eye), The Myth of Multitasking: How "Doing It All" Gets Nothing Done by David Crenshaw (Jossey-Bass: San Francisco 2008). The initial chapters take up the question of humans as multitaskers. For those who need to be reassured that [...]
Podcast: Managing for Weakness – a mis-management myth
Shifting your focus from weaknesses to strengths is a powerful step towards being personally more effective and building a more effective organization. This podcast is based on an earlier blog posting: "Managing for Weakness - a mis-management myth". This podcast is 7 minutes 21 seconds long. You can download a PDF file with the [...]
