Try this new habit* for a few weeks and boost your productivity. Carve our just five minutes of time on Friday afternoon while you are still at work. Set your phone timer for one minute and do these five things. NOTE: It is important that you do each activity in sixty seconds using what occurs to you top … Continue reading about Productivity Boost: Five Minutes Every Friday
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The Power of Goals
Learn to increase your effectiveness by setting goals as outcomes, not activities. Discover the seven steps to higher levels of performance, fulfillment, and satisfaction. For free e-book click here.
Strategy
A New Strategy Approach
Last week I gave the students in my graduate Nonprofit Strategy course their midterm in which I asked them to invent their own strategic planning … Continue reading about A New Strategy Approach
Leading Change Pitfalls
Leading Change is one of the most challenging tasks of top leaders. You may have memorized Kotter’s eight steps and have a big guiding … Continue reading about Leading Change Pitfalls
Leadership
Improve Your Decision-Making
It’s up to you. The facts and arguments for each alternative have been explained. The correct answer is not obvious, but someone has to make the call. And it’s you. What do you do? New research* from … Continue reading about Improve Your Decision-Making
Get Ready for the “Feeling Economy”
We have all heard the hype – a robot might take our job someday. Should we be worried? Recent research reported in California Management Review* gives us hope! It encourages us to beef up our feeling … Continue reading about Get Ready for the “Feeling Economy”
Teamwork
Retaining Your Best Talent
The continued low employment rate means that even some of your talented team members who are not looking to leave, could get recruited away. This is the topic of a recent article* in The Wall Street Journal with … Continue reading about Retaining Your Best Talent
Coaching Your Team
In the olden days . . . once you were identified as being great at what you did you were made a manager. You taught others how to do it right – just like you did. It was a command and control world. As it turns … Continue reading about Coaching Your Team