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Managerial-Leadership Case Study: Falling from Big Enough to Too Small in competence for the role

Mike Cardus

Contact Create-Learning Team Building & Leadership to fix this before it happens. Jackie had recently been hired as vice-president of engineering. Prior to her new role she was director of engineering. The department begins to sink in scale, matching the competence of its manager…. michael cardus is create-learning.

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Are personality profiles effective for determining employee competencies?

Mike Cardus

And these assessments are just an easy way out for managers and human resources directors from actually being accountable for their decisions and work. Another example “Quality Engineers need to be more analytical” how much of the analytical personal characteristic is needed? You are not a psychologist, you are a manager.

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Photo Inquiry Friday: Main Useful Function?

Mike Cardus

This week I have been thinking about the Main Useful Function of various positions within organizations; What is the Main Useful Function of Human Resources, Quality Control, Engineering, Sales, Production, Management? Defining main useful functions for objects can be challenging.

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Team Leader / Manager you are NOT a Mind-Reader. Even Mind-Readers are not mind-readers

Mike Cardus

You are team leader on a cross-functional team project that includes; Sue from finance, Jack from engineering, Brian from Quality Assurance, Stephanie from human resources, Terri is the customer representative, Tony from production and Mike (me) is the team coach…. Ferdinand Fournies.

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The Big Picture of Business – Business Success Checklist

Strategy Driven

Design and re-engineering of products-services. Top management has as a priority the need to develop and practice People development, skills and team building responsibilities. Human Resources program is active, professional and responsive to the organization. The business you’re in.

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Why Your Employees Should Be Playing With Lego Robots

Harvard Business Review

Participants from all backgrounds gain key team building skills through collaborating closely at every stage of ideation, innovation, deployment, evaluation and scaling. At the end of the training teams are required to present their ideas and results, building effective communication skills.

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The Big Picture of Business: Institutional Reviews Help Public Companies to Learn from the Downturn and Move Forward

Strategy Driven

Branch 2: Environmental, safety, IT systems design and computer software, training for computers and technology, architecture, engineering and legal. Branch 4: Training for diversity, team building, professional education and development, motivational and executive development-mentoring.

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