August 27, 2010 - by Jack E. Appleman
Good writing helps demonstrate leadership skills. Company heads can shape the future of their organizations and inspire employees. Senior-level supervisors can explain complex sales or management strategies. Midlevel managers can demonstrate or validate leadership abili... More »
August 27, 2010 - by Nan S. Russell
I once had a boss who informed me there was no such thing as company politics. At the time, I decided that depended on whether you were the person wielding power or the one influenced by it. For most people, self-serving antics, sabotaging behaviors, information hoardin... More »
May 27, 2010 - by Carol Decker
As HR personnel continue to identify what impact training has on the success of organizations, the term efficacy plays a role. Weve understood the term to refer to ones confidence level to perform. When determining such levels, we are often faced with only individual le... More »
April 27, 2010 - by Patricia Radakovich
Human performance improvement (HPI) is a field that is generally applied in business. Most of the time, practitioners are external consultants, but there are some internal positions as well. Rarely do you see an HPI practitioner work for a not-for-profit, however, becau... More »
March 27, 2010 - by Patrick Lencioni
In the late 1990s, I helped start a management consulting firm called The Table Group. which provides a variety of services to a wide range of clients in just about every respectable industry imaginable. From the beginning we adopted a simple informal approach to servin... More »
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