Category: Business Success
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Innovate Or Die
August 2013 This article was written back in 2007 in the beginning of the recession, its principles still apply today. What do organizations, such as those in the publishing industry, need to do to ensure survival, readership, and jobs for their people and provide a service to their communities? The publishing industry is at a…
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10 Steps to Personal and Professional Growth
August 2013 1. Awareness 2. Dissatisfaction 3. Affirmation 4. Responsibility 5. Personalized Goal 6. Demoralization 7. Intention 8. Action 9. Self-Support 10. Sustained Change. An Established Habit First, think of something you can do so well that you can teach another other person how to do it. Second, now think about the stages you went…
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Hiring Employees: The Four Requirements
August 2013 Most people look at previous employment history and skill sets to decide on candidate selection. Although past history and skills can be decent indicators of future work, it is far wiser to look at this process through a different set of lenses. Each job actually calls for four major areas to be…
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How to Set Goals & Achieve Them
August 2013 Business Strategy and Implementation, Improvement, Leadership Development/ Executive Coaching, Mergers: How to Manage & Coach People Through Change, Work Place Articles Many people struggle with achieving goals, not because they aren’t serious, but because they don’t know how and don’t have a map to follow. Whether learning to lead people, run a department or…
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How to Lead Profitable Productive & Efficient Meetings: A Quick Guide
August 2013 How to Lead Profitable Meetings This is where you are, but… THIS is where you WANT to be… Meetings end with unspecific goals. Vague timelines make people wonder who is going to do what and by when. Meetings are planned more effectively for better results. Achievable and measurable goals are clearly defined. Effective…
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Profitable & Improved Staff Development
August 2013 This is where you are, but… THIS is where you WANT to be… No buy-in and no follow through from participants once they return from a workshop or training. Trainings are ineffective or off-target and result in poor recall on Monday morning when trying to implement the new skills. People deeply understand and…
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Organization Business Strategic Plan Implementation Skills Assessment
August 2013 The Reality of Strategic Plan Execution should be clearly apparent. You must measure your teams understanding and ability to execute or you’re simply lying to yourself and others and wasting time and money under the illusion you’re doing strategic planning. Whether I call it a strategic plan for larger organizations or a plan…
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How to Create an Office Environment where Change Initiatives can Flourish
Aug 2013 How to create an office environment where change initiatives can flourish This is where you are, but… THIS is where you WANT to be… We find ourselves re-doing our project plan and spinning our wheels. People are not working as a team. Increased cross-functional collaboration and communication. Higher degrees of participation from all members,…
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How to Successfully Merge Department or Company Cultures
Aug 2013 For a project to end successfully, it must begin successfully and this statement could not be more true and the stakes higher then when it comes to any kind of merger or restructure. Long before the CEO’s are finished signing the final documents, the employees of each department or company have already started…
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Successful Strategic Plan Implementation: How to go from Planning to Action
Aug 2013 Strategic plans don’t go from plan to action on their own as most people think–or rather, hope. A strategic plan is a simple document or road map. People must be learn new behaviors and take actions not previously committed to implement a successful strategic plan. Much like people must take roads not…