RESPECT in the WorkplaceA Blue Ocean

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Carol Decker

In their book, Blue Ocean Strategy, W. Chan Kim and Rene Mauborgne say that most companies exist in a red ocean of competition but would succeed far more by creating blue oceans of uncontested market space. The same change can be made in our workplaces. Yes, obj... More »

Help Your Team Members Develop a Productivity Mindset

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Jeff Garton

Motivational tools and programs used to boost team performance are unlikely to work unless members allow themselves to be persuaded by those efforts. If they do not, even the best programs yield only temporary results, which forces leaders to implement additional new an... More »

Story-Based Design Principles

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Terrence L. Gargiulo

I feel we have a tendency to confuse communication with learning. Most of us spend the majority of our time in organizations communicating in the explicit ways expected of us. We think if we cant say it straight, or make a thought immediately digestible, then we have fa... More »

Gremlins and the Zen of Standing Out in Your Market

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Maggie Anderson

Its early in the New Year, and many of us are filled with optimistic thoughts and plans about what we can accomplish in 2011. Likely, youve done some planning about the next steps to take in your business or career. No matter how great our optimism or robust our vision ... More »

Indirect Conversion of Employee Behavior to Monetary Value

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Joyce L. Walden

Through a monetary conversion of benefits and costs, a return-on-investment (ROI) forecast projected calculations of the anticipated impact of coaching and mentoring to improve data entry processes. The overarching problematic issues involve complex data entry processes... More »