Sara December 19, 2012 Human Resource Management, Leadership, Management, Operations, Organizational, Professional Development

Learning organizations are never stagnant…Part 5

Learning organizations 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 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 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 21, 2012 Communication, Internet, Management, Organizational, Professional Development

Employee social media workplace whining is a very new and serious area of concern for employers – unchartered territory.

Continuing on this subject – employees and employers alike should be on guard and remind themselves of the fact that EVERYONE could see what’s being written – ...

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Sara November 17, 2012 Leadership, Management, Operations, Organizational

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit. Aristotle

Scott Eblin in his book “The Next Level:    What Insiders About Executive Success” talks candidly about the fact that we must develop “Grounded ...

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Sara November 13, 2012 Management, Operations, Organizational

Executives think they need to be marathoners when in reality they need to be more like sprinters.

Marathoners   can run as long and as fast as possible, but in fact executives need to be more like sprinters, putting everything they’ve got into a short burst of speed ...

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Sara November 9, 2012 Leadership, Management, Professional Development

Do you have a Life GPS?

Life Goals Planning System that is – according to “The Next Level   Author” Scott Eblin.  1.  List your strengths and favorite activities   – your ...

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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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