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November 14, 2014

3 Underutilized Management Practices

by: K. Palmer Hartl Working to Outputs, Not Inputs How many managers work to outputs rather than to inputs?  Most work to inputs, and it sends the wrong message to the employee and likely results in less initiative and creativity in the workplace.  The other day, a client sent me…
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October 21, 2014

Sick? Keep it at Home!

By: Maurice Gilbert Sickness – and preventing it – is top of mind these days.  You can hardly turn on the radio or TV without hearing mention of Ebola.  This may be even truer here in Dallas, where to date we’ve had one person succumb to Ebola, two more contract…
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October 10, 2014

Why Aren’t We Taking Our Much-Needed Vacations?

By: Maurice Gilbert Time off from work (in the form of a vacation or personal day, that is) has been shown to improve morale and productivity among workers, and for this reason, most companies encourage their employees to take advantage of paid vacation time as much as possible. That’s what…
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Leadership and career
October 7, 2014

Excuse Me, Do You Mind if I Deliver Inferior Performance?

New excuses for inferior performance crop up just as fast as one can whack them down—reminiscent of Whack-a-Mole, a game that involved forcing individual plastic moles back into their holes by hitting them directly on the head with a mallet. This week I encountered a new breed of mole related…
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September 25, 2014

What You Didn’t Know About E-Learning

Have you taken stock lately of your trainees?  Did you know that organizations with robust e-learning programs tend to fare better on just about every front?  What you don't know about e-learning may surprise you!  Dive into the infograhic below... the data you find there may leave you wanting to tweak…
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August 28, 2014

The Dangers of Employee Overload

Many of us are accustomed to juggling multiple projects at once, playing catch up with email and phone calls and running on fumes by the week's end.  Assuming, of course, we didn't start the week in a state of frenzy and had the luxury of resting a bit over the…
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Leadership and career
August 13, 2014

Who Was Occam? And Why Did He Need a Razor?

In April, as decreed by the Church of England, we commemorate the life of William of Ockham, an English Franciscan friar and scholastic philosopher who has influenced modern organizational theory—but not enough. Peter Drucker’s medieval counterpart offered the observation that “entities must not be multiplied beyond necessity,” although these exact…
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July 29, 2014

Having the “Difficult Chat”

It’s only natural to want to prolong a confrontation or an uncomfortable discussion, but it’s a leader’s job to address issues head on.  The longer a problem continues, the more difficult it will be to correct improper conduct and help staff to improve their performance.  Small course corrections are far…
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July 24, 2014

The Case Against Multitasking

People often boast about their abilities to multitask, but is it really a good thing?  Yes, we want versatile workers, although if they're juggling too much at once, they're more likely to drop a ball here and there.  And, depending on what gets overlooked or which portion of their work suffers,…
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July 10, 2014

Boost Creativity with these Small Steps

From the Land of TED Talks comes a dozen tips to stretch yourself, fuel innovation and foster big thinking and solutions building.  Some of the most valuable employees are the creative minds, without whom we wouldn't have exciting technological advances or dream of taking the company in daring new directions.…
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