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Category: Management/Leadership
Author: Jim McKay
Posted: 10-08-2017 05:43 AM
Views: 4632
Synopsis: Job interviews have traditionally been social in nature and heavily reliant on feeling and subjective perceptions. While these interviews are comfortable for many managers, they aren't very effective and open the door to potential legal trouble. A much more scientific and effective approach is the structured interview - a system of interviewing that has saved organizations millions of dollars that once were lost to bad hires.
Category: Management/Leadership
Author: TrainingABC
Posted: 08-21-2017 07:46 AM
Views: 5165
Synopsis: Learn how fair management practices will protect managers from legal trouble while also promoting trust, productivity, efficiency, innovation and accountability. No manager can lead effectively without practicing fair, equal and consistent management.
Category: Management/Leadership
Posted: 12-24-2011 11:00 PM
Views: 7406
Synopsis:
There are too many workplaces that are full of negative, fear-based management practices. Managers feel like their employees are "under-achievers" who need a "kick-in-the-butt" in order to achieve. They have low expectations in their employees and therefore their employees live up to these expectations. Dennis Franz who plays Sid in The Sid Story is just this type of manager. He yells and rants and treats his employees like children. He also consistently has the worst production numbers in his company. As the film progresses, Sid find that his management strategy has led to his poor numbers and he changes as a manager and a person.
Category: Management/Leadership
Posted: 12-23-2011 11:00 PM
Views: 2943
Synopsis:
The basketball player stands at the free throw line and he just can't stop thinking about how he all his shots have been short today and sure enough the ball clanks off the front of the rim. The actor stands on the stage and all he can think about is how he is going to forget his lines, even though he has them completely memorized, and sure enough he can't remember them at the most important moment. The man steps up to the podium to give a speech scared to death that he is going to stutter and sure enough he does. The mind is a powerful thing and seems to be able to affect our actions whether positive or negative. This is widely known as the Pygmalion Effect.
Category: Management/Leadership
Posted: 12-21-2011 11:01 PM
Views: 2893
Synopsis:
Behavioral interviewing is the most effective way to hire a qualified employee. It takes gut feelings, stereotypes and biases out of the process and allows you to look at candidates in more scientific terms. The process is called behavioral because it uses behaviors presented in the past to predict future behaviors. The process sounds easy but it takes practice and persistence.
Category: Management/Leadership
Posted: 04-22-2011 11:47 PM
Views: 6358
Synopsis:
For many years in the workplace it was thought the best way to motivate employees was with money and fear. Excellent performers were rewarded with more pay and promotions and bad performers were fired or demoted. Family and life outside of work took a backseat to the job and it was universally thought that if the job required time that cut into an employee's life, then the job always won.
Category: Management/Leadership
Posted: 04-19-2011 11:48 PM
Views: 3119
Synopsis:
Your job has a manager has many facets, but probably the most important one is to motivate your employees to higher productivity and efficiency. With the economic climate, impending layoffs and the generation lack of optimism in the business world these days, your job as a motivator is even more crucial. Managers need to look for ways to keep their employees inspired and quickly! Here are few simple ways to get started motivating your employees.
Category: Management/Leadership
Posted: 04-07-2011 11:48 PM
Views: 280
Synopsis:
It's tough being a manager. You are stretched in 100 different directions and some days it seems like you get nothing done and your staff seems less motivated than ever. It seems hopeless but there are five things you can do right now to make your day more productive and your staff a bit more motivated and therefore productive. Here are some leadership training tips to help you with your management skills right away.
Category: Management/Leadership
Posted: 03-15-2011 11:49 PM
Views: 2920
Synopsis:
The world is constantly in flux. Changes are occurring so rapidly now that a company like MySpace can have a 75% share of the social marketing world and one year later be completely surpassed by Facebook. Companies have to be constantly looking for paradigm shifts. They need to constantly change to survive. Every available resource needs to be focused on innovation and changing paradigms. This is accomplished by leaders within an organization taking advantage of resources and diversity to find and innovate new ideas. Leadership training in every organization should include innovation and the study of paradigms.
Category: Management/Leadership
Posted: 02-19-2011 01:09 AM
Views: 3426
Synopsis:
The famous futurist Joel Barker says, "A Leader is someone you would follow to a place you would not go by yourself." Being a leader doesn't necessarily mean that you have been given the title of manager or supervisor. Leaders are people who look to the future and inspire people to follow them. They can come from any part of an organization as long as they innovate, embrace change and look to the future. Yet, people and organizations tend to group the titles manager and leader as if they were one and the same. There are several important differences between a leader and a manager. Manager and supervisors need to recognize the difference between the titles and embrace both roles. Leadership training on this topic is crucial.