Posts Tagged ‘problem solving’
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, [...]
Too Much Information – learn to control those interruptors
A continuing hot topic here is the surge of interruptions that consume our work day (and evenings, too). I have talked about this earlier in these postings, Seize Your Time - gaining control over Too Much Information and Multitasking, Too Much Information, Interruptions, and High Performance Many people see their emails, instant messaging, [...]
Business Coaching – what to expect
So, what should I expect during a business coaching session? A coaching session always starts with whatever is most pressing for you at the moment. "What's going on today?" We will explore these problems or opportunities. Lots of questions will be asked to work towards a complete understanding of what is at hand. After all, the most [...]
Getting the Right Things Done – the manager’s focus
Peter Drucker wrote a charming little book in 1967, The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting Things Done. I have now read it numerous times and each revisit rewards me. Just this morning I was speaking with a manager about efforts to refocus a business on new services and the difficulty of dragging along the old, tried-and-true [...]
