Sara December 15, 2012 Human Resource Management, Leadership, Management, Operations, Professional Development

Learning organizations are never stagnant…Part 4

Learningbborganizations are defined by their ability to master these elements:1.  Systems Thinking – 2.  Personal Mastery – 3.  Mental Models – 4.  Building ...

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Sara December 7, 2012 Human Resource Management, Leadership, Management, Operations, Organizational, Professional Development

Learning organizations are never stagnant…Part 2

 Learning organizations are defined by their ability to master these elements:1.  Systems Thinking – 2.  Personal Mastery – Individuals should be confident in ...

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Sara December 3, 2012 Human Resource Management, Leadership, Operations, Organizational, Professional Development

Learning organizations are never stagnant!

They are always looking for an edge and they value originality.    Learning organizations are defined by their ability to master these elements: 1.  Systems Thinking – ...

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Sara November 25, 2012 Human Resource Management, Management, Organizational

Wanna gripe about your boss or your job on social media…ya can’t just say anything.

Believe it or not, courts are swinging in both directions regarding this issue.  It’s a whole new issue for employer’s and it’s not tried and true yet, so ...

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Sara November 5, 2012 Human Resource Management, Leadership, Management, Organizational

What you say as an executive has great impact.

A top corporate executive made a comment during a plant visit that its maintenance budget looked a little high.  The next thing he knew, the plant managers had made drastic ...

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Sara November 1, 2012 Human Resource Management, Leadership, Management

Responsibility differs from Accountability

At the   executive level, you supervise too many projects most liekly to be involved hands on with all of them.  Still,   you’re accountable for them.  Thus, you must ...

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Sara October 20, 2012 Customer Service, Human Resource Management, Leadership, Management, Marketing, Operations, Organizational, Professional Development

Where does your staff think they are in the pecking order?

It may surprise you to learn that Southwest Airlines is the most unionized airline, with 85% of its employees in unions.    Yet the airline has a reputation for amicable ...

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Sara October 16, 2012 Communication, Human Resource Management, Leadership, Management, Operations, Organizational, Professional Development

Set and renew noble expectations

Hang with me for one more day while I tout a few of the fabulous lessons we as business owners, principals, managers can learn from the sensitive successes of our friends in ...

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Sara November 23, 2011 Human Resource Management, Leadership, Management

Are you confident enough in your team to make this statement? “Ignore me as needed to do your job”!

Have the guts and the confidence in your team, knowing they aren’t always going to do “it” exactly the way you would, and remove the barriers that block the ...

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Sara November 22, 2011 Human Resource Management, Leadership, Management

Is it possible that your smartest people may be impeding the smarts of your organization?

Are you waiting too long to remove the blockers? I can’t even begin to tell you how personal this statement is for me. As a young agency owner I inherited the staff my ...

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