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Go to All ArticlesYour GamePlan: A Model that Makes Sure You Succeed
Several years ago we realized that corporate training worked poorly, if at all. We set about creating a model that would gain 100% buy-in from participants in a session.
Is it better to be smart or socially skilled in the workplace?
Big question for careers. Is it better to be SMART or SOCIALLY SKILLED in the workplace? Do high intelligence people have better careers? Is it fatal to be socially awkward in the workplace?
Is Your Central Goal to Make the Boat Run Faster?
How Team New Zealand Beat the Powerful “Stars and Stripes” What determines the fastest sailing boat? And how did New Zealand win?
Big Problem: Losing Signal Strength in Your Organization
You’ve been frustrated with poor communication strength. If you’ve taken a road trip in the United States lately you know how unpredictable cell phone service can be in this country. (Is cell phone reception as unpredictable in the country where you live?)
The Ultimate Succeed/Fail List for Your Project Team
Business project teams, like sports teams, are as likely to fail as succeed. How do you avoid this? Follow the suggestions we’re offering, and you’ll increase the odds of succeeding greatly.
Making the Workplace Work with Intergens
Intergenerational Teams—Boomers, Gen Xers, Millennials and iGens Making it Happen Together
Why Our Teams All Too Often Fail
Basketball is a player-to-player competition, but in business, as well as non-profits, team members must not compete against each other.
Defining Your Organizational Culture—Getting Beyond the Brick Wall to the Road Forward
Culture is the complex combination of the invisible ways in which people interact and work together as groups. Understanding how your organization’s culture works is key.
Happily Ever After . . . Just for Fairy Tales?
Is living a happy life a realistic hope? It’s quite amazing that happiness is very controversial. A great many people believe that it’s frankly wrong to be happy, and it’s easy to make that argument.
Culture Change–the Most Difficult and Vital Change of All
When an organization’s best and brightest people have used every tactic and strategy to move an organization forward, only to hit the brick wall that they never imagined existed, that “invisible,” impenetrable brick wall is often an organizational culture that does not bend or accommodate the most powerful assault. Professionals who put up a PowerPoint and announce everyone is going through a six-month culture change program are guilty of felony naivete and a basic lack of understanding of culture. Few organizations understand how to tap the[…]
