How many times have you sat in a meeting and asked yourself, “Why am I here?” Meetings take up valuable time and can be a major contributor to ineffectiveness. To counteract this, managers follow age-old best practices such as supplying an agenda and only inviting...
You want employees to be satisfied and engaged in their work so they are using their full abilities to do the appropriate work in your organization. But while employee satisfaction and engagement surveys measure something worthwhile and provide valuable information to...
“Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.” – Albert Einstein Since the recession, the flattening trend has gained momentum. In contrast to the traditional pyramid model, flattened organizations have fewer executive salaries and fewer layers of....
Intended to measure the health of your company, employee engagement surveys are great tools that identify employee issues such as morale, but continued low survey results show that remedial action fails to remedy a lack of engagement and to improve overall...
Working with the concepts at Effective ManagersTM is invigorating. In my 25 years as a manager in various functions in provincial, national and global organizations, and more recently in these past 15 years as a management consultant, I continue to be amazed by the...
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