Sara September 2, 2012 Leadership, Management, Organizational, Professional Development

Highly successful managers embed performance management activities into their regular routines, enabling them to help their workers improve…constantly.

1) Goal setting and revising:  Since change occurs rapidly in business,   it’s imperative that goals are set and revised at least quarterly.  Research indicates that the ...

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Sara November 15, 2011 Management, Organizational, Professional Development, Synerdynamics

“I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.” Woodrow Wilson

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Sara October 25, 2011 Leadership, Management, Organizational, Professional Development

Empowering is about instilling and encouraging power in those around you.

Empowerment defined – scary stuff, especially for a reformed control freak like me!  Most agencies I work with, including my own, were at some point in time was a ...

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Sara October 19, 2011 Leadership, Management, Organizational, Professional Development, Synerdynamics

Alexander the Great led the battle by charging in front of his troops, not leading from behind.

  Sounds like suicide, but in fact “you can’t lead where you don’t go”, as my Mom says.  Never true words were spoken related to what real leadership has ...

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Sara October 18, 2011 Leadership, Management, Operations, Organizational, Professional Development

The biggest failing of an average organization is usually its inability to execute.

  Ready, aim….ready….ready, aim….aim….aim…aim.  Talk about frustrating for everyone involved!  The organization who sees the target, loads the gun but never pulls ...

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Sara October 13, 2011 Management, Organizational

Too many agencies have square pegs in round holes…why?

Our industry has historically identified prior work experience in a particular position as the on-ramp to a series of recurring positions, sometimes with different agencies, ...

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Sara October 11, 2011 Leadership, Management, Operations, Organizational, Professional Development, Sales & Sales Management, Synerdynamics

Real, organic change in an organization starts with individuals who change themselves.

Talk about a four-lettered word in many of the organizations I work with –  that’s “Change”.  OK, I haven’t totally lost it, I know ...

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Sara September 28, 2011 Management, Marketing, Operations, Organizational, Professional Development, Synerdynamics

If your business isn’t growing, it’s your fault. What are you going to do about it?

If you’re not stopping at least once a month and looking at some key success indicators on a regular basis – no one else is and where does that get you in the long run ...

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