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Leadership Development Your Company Can Afford…Even This Year!
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| Do you need to be developing leaders for the future? Do you think it must cost a fortune, and it's just plain out of reach for this year, given budget constraints?
Learn how one company built it's bench to prepare for baby boomer retirements with an inexpensive, no-travel, highly effective leadership development process. And after strengthening their leadership team using this approach, learn about the great results they produced during the last five years. |
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Business Plans Don’t Last Forever
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| Business plans... you either love them or hate them. They are a beautiful thing when they create a unified focus and alignment across your company... And empower your team to go out and do what they must do to produce results. But fast-growing companies outgrow their business plans. Often, it is just a matter of time, because business plans don’t last forever!
It’s highly likely you have outgrown your business plan when: |
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The Service Factor during Economic Turbulence
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| Improving and maintaining good customer service is not an exciting endeavor. It involves detailed study and steadfast execution rather than temporary brilliance or inspiration. Therefore, customer service improvement is fundamentally an effort of continuous improvement. You must develop a basic competency in process improvement to attain and sustain high levels of customer service. This means that it is absolutely critical during tough economic times that you don’t make the mistake of cutting resources that support service excellence in your attempt to control operational costs. |
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Business Plans: Uses and Abuses
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| “Some men see things as they are and say "Why?". I dream of things that never were and say "Why not?" (George Bernard Shaw)
Do you ever dream about business success and wonder how to make it happen? We all have aspirational dreams and goals but how many of us know how to turn them into reality.
Many of you will have thought about writing business plans to make your dreams come true and been put off, thinking them either too hard to write, not necessary, or feeling that they are not really needed as the plans are already in your head. In fact it is important that you create plans, as they provide focus and a pathway for you to follow to achieve your business goals.
In principle plans are not that difficult to write, providing some fundamentals are clearly identified and followed before you start the process.
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Continuous Improvement
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| Firstly, this article asks the question ... "Is Continuous Improvement possible?" With a slight caveat ,the answer is 'yes'. It then sets out how you can achieve continuous improvement - without adopting any of the commercial 'methodologies, without using expensive consultants. You will , of course, have to put in some effort ... mainly thought! But it is possible - for any busines. |
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Drucker, Culture, and Safety
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| The Safety Culture Index is compiled from a 41-question survey that will help managers assess just how effective their workplace culture really is at preventing accidents. It helps managers to zero-in on, and implement improvement plans against the specific areas that require attention to reduce culture-spawned safety risks. |
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Change Management Can Lead to Rigidity and Resistance to Change
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| Beware of formal organization improvement or "change management" (an oxymoron) plans. Like strategic plans, organization improvement or change management plans can reduce an organization's effectiveness. They can lead to rigidity, bureaucracy, and resistance to change.
This sounds like an argument against planning. It's not. We have found that constant and ongoing personal, team, and organization improvement planning is vital. But too many "change management" and improvement plans are built on the same faulty premise as strategic planning - that there is a right path, which can be determined in advance and then implemented. We often hear managers declare that they have the right strategic or improvement plan, but the reason things aren't going according to plan is because of "execution problems." This is a deadly assumption. |
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Personal Improvement Planning Pathways and Pitfalls (Part Two)
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| Develop or join a network of colleagues who are as interested in personal learning and development as you are. This can be a powerful source of learning from other people's experiences. It's also a great place for you to reflect on your own experiences and articulate your improvement plans. For the past few years I've run ongoing executive development sessions with groups of managers in each one. They've proven to be powerful sources of learning and personal development for all of us involved in them.
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Process Management Pathways and Pitfalls (Part Two)
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| Make sure all your process improvement activities are clearly and tightly linked to your strategic imperatives. Each effort should also have highly focused and specific improvement goals (that are an aggressive, major stretch) and measurements. Establish feedback and follow-up steps for each process management and improvement team.
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Why Most Change Programs and Improvement Initiatives Fail
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| Many team and organization change and improvement efforts are lost or badly bewildered. Decades of studies have consistently shown that 50-70 percent are failing. There are as many reasons that improvement endeavors lose their way, as there are people, teams, and organizations trying to improve. |
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Personal Development Plans...Do they work?
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| Most of us have personal development plans regarding our careers, relationships and self improvement but many of us lose sight of our aspirations as a result of us getting caught up in the daily trappings of everyday life.
We all have infinite potential but few of us make the most of what we have got. |
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