Are You Still Doing it All Yourself

Delegating is necessary to empower effective teams. Good sports coaches delegate each position to players on the field. Business leaders should do the same.

Engage! Tapping Potential Through Understanding Motivation

In the workplace there is a tremendous opportunity to tap unused potential and resources. Unleashing some of this hidden power is the challenge organizations and individuals face in today’s world of increased competition. To get individuals cognitively, physically, and emotionally engaged in their work is a worthwhile goal for all organizations. Almost all individuals have an innate desire to do well and to excel in their endeavors. The challenge then is not in creating a desire but in understanding motivation and what creates it.

Implement the Benefit of Business Change with R-pM

Conventional methods prevent business change for planned and managed benefits and return. R-pM provides the proper method for business change in the 21st century enterprise to leave 20th century change management problems behind.

3 Ways to Quickly Improve Income and Patient Health at Your Site

This article describes the uses of collaboration with patients and employees to deliver improved services which result in a better bottom line and improved health outcomes. It also points to ways to improve results with the diagnosis of alchohol misuse by patients.

Learn Your PROTOCOLS

Organisations looking to implement improvement often fail to achieve the results they are looking for - yet when you analyse the reasons why their improvement programmes (Lean, Six Sigma etc) fail, it can normally be traced back to one of nine reasons - and this article tells you how!

How to Lead Strategic Change

How do the best operational managers make the transition between the two roles of manager and leader? The answer is that they adopt new ways of thinking in advance of new ways of working. In this article we will explore four key skills that, if mastered, can help you make those first tentative steps towards the Boardroom.

Stakeholder Analysis - Management and Engagement

If we are involved in managing change, we will come across the terms Stakeholder Analysis, Stakeholder Management and Stakeholder Engagement. So what is the difference between these three concepts?

Ineffective Publicity Campaign Is Only Short Term Thrill

You may have a better mousetrap, but if you do not effectively promote your mousetrap, how are your customers going to beat a path to your door?

Companies Need To Rest To Recharge

One of the most effective ways to improve mental and physical health is rest. People also produce their best results when they are relaxed and comfortable at their workplace. The first concept of rest in the corporate context is stability. Therein, lies an apparent paradox. To cope with the rapid changes, the company needs to change. Yet, in the quest for growth-inducing changes, the company needs to have rest and stability.

Casual With Receivables, You May Land Up as a Casualty

Some companies' Achilles' heels are their accounts receivables, poor credit control or weak administration of credit policy. These weaknesses can smolder the companies of their vital lifeline - cash flow causing them to asphyxiate.

Accountability and Victimization-Getting Off the Hamster Wheel and Getting to Engaged Leadership

he difference between making decisions as a victim or as an accountable leader can be significant and have great impact on business results. This article defines what it takes to act as an accountable executive leader and offers some solutions for operating from the accountable stance. Operating from an accountable standpoint offers obvious advantages to any organization: commitment, sustainability, improved teamwork and bottom line performance.

Successful Collaboration; Overcome Goals Based, Facts Based and Procedures Based Pitfalls

Do you want to succeed in developing and maintaining your needed strategic alliance, collaboration or partnering relationship? Then you must be ready to overcome the pitfalls and roadblocks before they arise-before they kill your alliance. Three of these such pitfalls are: Goals, Facts and Procedures Based.

Consultants & Coaches: Don't Let Your Clients Deskill You!

Do you remember that brave guy who jumped into the icy Potomac River to save some of the passengers from a plane that slid off the runway into the drink? Without doubt, he was a hero, hurling himself into harm's way as he did. But the greatest threat he faced wasn't the frigid water or the potential of the damaged jet to explode. It came from the very people he was endeavoring to save. As is the unfortunate case so often, drowning people inadvertently drown their would-be saviors, because they're panicking. So, we end up with a tragedy on top of a tragedy. A similar, though less dramatic phenomenon occurs in consulting and coaching, according to Dr. gary S. Goodman, top speaker and best-selling author of 12 books, including SIX-FIGURE CONSULTING (AMACOM).