Your first reaction is to say: “You can’t train with Training Blogs alone.” You are absolutely correct; however, it’s human nature to look for the quickest and easiest way to do anything, and it takes some prodding to be thorough and detailed. It is certainly faster today than it was in the past to learn …
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Performance Measurement: Key Terms Overview
Performance Measurement: Essential Key Terms Overview © Copyright Carter McNamara, MBA, PhD, Authenticity Consulting, LLC. Adapted from Field Guide to Consulting and Organizational Development Suggested Pre-Reading Overview of Performance Management Process for any Application Key terms include Domain Results measures indicators organizational goals organizational preferred results aligning results weighting results standards performance plans observing, measurements …
The emergence of the team idea can be traced back to the late 1920s and early 1930s with the now classic Hawthorne Studies. These involved a series of research activities designed to examine in-depth what happened to a group of workers under various conditions. After much analysis, the researchers agreed that the most significant factor …
My favorite part of summer is watching my kids play baseball. My oldest son has played with the same coach for three years. For the first two years, the team was mostly the same players and the team worked well together on and off the field. But this year is a little different. This the first year, the coaches picked players from a draft (no parent requests for a coach) and it is also the first year that some of our players were eligible to participate in a travel team. So the team has only four of the original players. It's an entirely new dynamic.
…is you, the company training director. It’s not quite what it seems. There’s always what we say and what we communicate. Training is still the same even after all these years; it’s been the same forever only we sometimes forget to use it well. The learning theories are the same; the training methods are the …
There’s been a lot of talk about happiness and general well-being of late. Here we explore the four components of happiness and ask if busy teams can ever achieve a happy team. Since becoming the Conservative leader and Prime Minister in the UK David Cameron has argued that we should be monitoring GWB (General Well …
It’s always going to be the case that you find some people easier to work with than others. Sometimes you can pinpoint the problem immediately (if, for example, your employee is lazy or unresponsive, comes in late and leaves early, shirks responsibility, or constantly questions your authority without cause). But there are times when your …
So much has been said, written and thought about leadership that it’s becoming increasingly difficult to identify what actually makes a good leader. So when the BBC announced it was dedicating two thirty minute radio shows to the subject, by asking leaders from politics, business and sport what they believe makes a good leader, we …
