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Are managers equipped to solve the UK’s poor productivity?

Chartered Management Institute

The UK decline has been quite dramatic and leaves us reasonably uncompetitive in comparison to many advanced countries. Lessons in productivity from the Workshop of the World Managers and leaders collectively need to improve employee productivity now, and on an ongoing basis. I think not as of today.

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Feedback is Good (Even When it Feels So Bad)

Lead Change Blog

When I started facilitating workshops, my co-facilitator and I would distribute feedback forms and ask participants to tell us what their experience was like. This is where the workshop evaluations hit me the hardest: my sense of myself as a “really good facilitator.”. Grant yourself space to seek improvement.

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Company Strategic Planning Agenda

Mike Cardus

Below is a 1 day strategic planning workshop. CFO $$ talk: Comparison of past to present financial Profit & Revenue. Strategic Planning Agenda. Following the strategic planning meeting there was 4 follow-up meetings to refine the plan and document action steps. Objectives: Develop strategic plan for 2014+. 4 mixed teams.

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Photo Inquiry Friday: How do you describe the absence of a problem?

Mike Cardus

I have been developing a series of Managerial Coaching Trainings and workshops, and this question always leads to a discussion of language and how its use can reinforce or eliminate beliefs, problems, thoughts, behaviors, etc…. By default thinking about your temper and SCREAMING enters into your thoughts for a needed comparison.

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Charisma Confusion: It’s Often a Weakness and Humility a Strength

The Practical Leader

Questions about these intertwined leadership characteristics recently came up in workshops and online discussions. Conversely, the comparison executives frequently looked out the window for factors to blame but preened in the mirror to credit themselves when things went well.” Is humility a key trait of highly effective leaders?

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The Leadership Walk

Kevin Eikenberry

In fact your talk matters little, in comparison to your walk. Every day too – not just on our best days, or the days we feel good, or the days we had a good breakfast, or right after we went to a great training workshop. The reality is, they watch and pay much more attention to your feet, than your lips.

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Hector and the Search for #Happiness

QAspire

Making comparisons can spoil your happiness. 8 Life Lessons From Yoga Workshop. He jots these lessons down in a notebook gifted to him by his fiancée. Here is what he writes in his notebook. Emphasis added to the lessons that really struck me hard). Happiness often comes when least expected. Self Growth Happiness'