Posts Tagged ‘personnel’
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?
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 [...]
Managing Key Personnel – Do What Is Inevitable – evasion and self-deception will not work
Recently I was speaking with the owner of a financial services firm. She has 15 people in her organization which is now almost 18 years old. By any measure a successful firm. She told me about one person who has been with the firm for eight years. The owner described this person as the most professional and reliable person in the organization. [...]
Podcast – Early Intervention Is Key to Employee Success
Early intervention for new hires and promotions is key to success. This podcast is 4 minutes 59 seconds long. A text version is available here.
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 [...]
Management Principles & Practices
The personal and functional management principles and practices that we use in business coaching originate in the best high-performance management systems in use around the world. A great deal is known about high-performance management and high-performance companies. These lessons are encompassed in formal and informal bodies of management [...]
Podcast – Don’t Bad Mouth The Competition
More reasons why the old maxim is still true: "Don't Bad Mouth The Competition". This podcast is 4 minutes 9 seconds long.
Don’t Bad Mouth The Competition
The other day I met a business person and was chatting about the marketplace for his business - plumbing actually - and found myself listening to a small scale tirade attacking several of his competitors for what he felt to be "sleazy, slipshod practices". This incident brought me back to thoughts about what I think is a proven business maxim, [...]
