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From "Inception" to "Implementation": Training How to Tell Truth to Power
The New Yorker's parody of "Inception" plays on a negative stereotype of management consultants. Reversing that depends on learning the skill of telling truth to power.
Oh, Grow Up! Relations Between Managers and Their Former Peers
When you're promoted, can you preserve the relationships with former peers? The answer is no.
Include Olm's Law in Your Management Training!
Cutting your losses is the hardest thing for most managers, for most people, to do. That's the lesson we young MBAs learned from Professor Kenneth Olm. Training how to recognize the warning signs and deal with the attendant emotions should be included in every management training program.
Peter Pronovost's Checklists for Management Training
The highly successful work of Dr. Peter Pronovost in reducing in-hospital infection through the use of checklists has a direct application to managerial practice. Incorporate checklists in your management training materials!
Train your managers to be Maui Millionaires!
David Finkel's "Maui Millionaires" program relies on a key concept you'll want to incorporate into your management training programs - and into your self-development as a manager! It's deceptively simple,like all great ideas.The key is in the implementation.
No Fear! A lesson from health care patient service for managment training
Your managers-in-training need to learn that compulsively avoiding organizational pain can be highly counter-productive. Design your management training program to incorporate and develop this realization.
The Poison Pen: How Should Managers Deal with Anonymous Accusations?
In corporate life as in our personal lives, we have an unfortunate tendency to overreact fo unsourced rumors and opinions,to gossip and anonymous criticism. How do deal constuctively with these issues should be part of every managment training program.
Blindsided by Basil: Management Training for Agility and Flexibility
Change happens. It's critical that we develop in managers the ability to perceive and respond to change in timely fashion, even if it means revising plans that are carved in stone. In a global economy in mind-boggling flux, that ability may make the difference between succes and failure.
Training International Managers: God Is in the Details
In preparing American managers for overseas assignments, add some well-chosen, site-specific cultural information to the training mix - just enough to pleasantly surprise their foreign business partners without getting them in over their heads.
Where Are You Going to Get Your Next PR Hit?
Still, to get those hits requires a tremendous investment in time, patience, strategic thinking, hope and a little PR Pixie Dust (it's available in a spray can).
Return to Articles IndexThe New Yorker's parody of "Inception" plays on a negative stereotype of management consultants. Reversing that depends on learning the skill of telling truth to power.
Oh, Grow Up! Relations Between Managers and Their Former Peers
When you're promoted, can you preserve the relationships with former peers? The answer is no.
Include Olm's Law in Your Management Training!
Cutting your losses is the hardest thing for most managers, for most people, to do. That's the lesson we young MBAs learned from Professor Kenneth Olm. Training how to recognize the warning signs and deal with the attendant emotions should be included in every management training program.
Peter Pronovost's Checklists for Management Training
The highly successful work of Dr. Peter Pronovost in reducing in-hospital infection through the use of checklists has a direct application to managerial practice. Incorporate checklists in your management training materials!
Train your managers to be Maui Millionaires!
David Finkel's "Maui Millionaires" program relies on a key concept you'll want to incorporate into your management training programs - and into your self-development as a manager! It's deceptively simple,like all great ideas.The key is in the implementation.
No Fear! A lesson from health care patient service for managment training
Your managers-in-training need to learn that compulsively avoiding organizational pain can be highly counter-productive. Design your management training program to incorporate and develop this realization.
The Poison Pen: How Should Managers Deal with Anonymous Accusations?
In corporate life as in our personal lives, we have an unfortunate tendency to overreact fo unsourced rumors and opinions,to gossip and anonymous criticism. How do deal constuctively with these issues should be part of every managment training program.
Blindsided by Basil: Management Training for Agility and Flexibility
Change happens. It's critical that we develop in managers the ability to perceive and respond to change in timely fashion, even if it means revising plans that are carved in stone. In a global economy in mind-boggling flux, that ability may make the difference between succes and failure.
Training International Managers: God Is in the Details
In preparing American managers for overseas assignments, add some well-chosen, site-specific cultural information to the training mix - just enough to pleasantly surprise their foreign business partners without getting them in over their heads.
Where Are You Going to Get Your Next PR Hit?
Still, to get those hits requires a tremendous investment in time, patience, strategic thinking, hope and a little PR Pixie Dust (it's available in a spray can).
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