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The Three Top Priorities of a Great Church Leader

Joseph Lalonde

Those areas include personal devotions, training and equipping staff and volunteers, and building and strengthening relationships. Image by David McGregor. Training and Equipping. Great church leaders are involved in the training and equipping of staff and volunteers. Let’s discuss each one of those areas.

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CMI Highlights – 23 August

Chartered Management Institute

We’re delighted to announce the shortlists in the four categories of the CMI Partner Awards , which celebrate the achievements of CMI training providers and learners: Outstanding HE Training Provider of the Year : University of Exeter, University of Strathclyde, Gloucestershire Business School, Arden University.

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Review of “Still Surprised: A Memoir of a Life in Leadership” by Warren Bennis

The Practical Leader

The next year (1948) Douglas McGregor (best remembered for The Human Side of Enterprise and its description of leadership approaches Theory X and Theory Y) became Antioch’s president. This began a close mentoring relationship until McGregor’s early and sudden death in 1964. in economics and social sciences.

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Unconscious and Underlying Beliefs Undermine Culture Change Efforts

The Practical Leader

As I prepare for a series of webcasts, keynotes, workshops, and internal consultant/change agent training on culture change this fall, I’ve been reviewing research and what we’re learning first-hand from our work with long-term consulting and training Clients. A team or organization’s culture can be quite subtle.

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leadership and management models download- page 2a

Rapid BI

At RapidBI we use many management and leadership models and through the process of using them we have developed a library of 100?s. Training Evaluation model. McGregor Theory X Y. Leadership and Management Models Download PowerPoint Slides – page 2a. Innovation Paradigms. IT Services Management Model. Johari Window.

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How to Get an Employee to Work Faster

Harvard Business Review

A slower worker doesn’t just reduce a team’s productivity — he can also hurt his colleagues’ morale, says Lindsay McGregor, the coauthor of Primed to Perform and co-founder of Vega Factor. “Start with assuming positive intent,” says McGregor. What the Experts Say.

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What Circuit City Learned About Valuing Employees

Harvard Business Review

In 1960, 11 years after he founded the company that became Circuit City, my father Sam Wurtzel was reading a book he couldn't put down: The Human Side of Enterprise , by MIT professor Douglas McGregor. The next morning, he called McGregor's office and asked for a meeting with him. It was also central to how Sam built Circuit City.