Corporate Lessons and Success Strategies Learned From the AIG Buyout

The current water cooler buzz seems to be ringing with the financial distress surrounding AIG, Merrill Lynch and Lehmann Brothers. What business lessons can be learned from the respective companies’ financial disappointments, and how can you turn what may be deemed a failure into a lesson of success for your business?
As evidenced in this recent [...]

Warning Signs of a Control Freak Employee

This is a great column from the Atlanta Business Chronicle column The Human Element giving some warning signs employers need to look for to avoid allowing controlling, insubordinate employees to gain too much influence and discourage inter office team building and collaboration:
“We all know micromanagers who need to back off. But just as often, I [...]

What Motivates our Employees?

As employers, it is sometimes easy to get caught up in the rush and chaos of each day - running our businesses, problem solving and staying in the black. We know the key to long term success for any business depends heavily on employee enthusiasm, dedication and motivation, but we can often lose sight of [...]

Customer Focused Approach in Strategic Planning

Are your products and processes customer/client focused? Or are you trying to sell products and services blindly? This video by Robin Lawton of International Management Consultants, Inc. gives a clear picture of why this strategy doesn’t work, and why designing your strategies around your customers is incredibly more effective than expecting your target market to [...]

SpeedReading People® Workshop

It’s easy to communicate with people who think like you. It’s those who don’t that represent the challenge.
Learn to communicate effectively with all kinds of people, even those very different from you. SpeedReading People® is a communication system that enables people to quickly size up others and learn to “speak” their language.
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A Different Approach to Employee Feedback

As business leaders, we all know the importance of giving regular, valuable feedback to our employees to help them identify areas of strength and weakness and to encourage their professional growth.
Marshall Goldsmith, one of today’s leading management thinkers, has developed a new approach to employee feedback called FeedForward. This exceptional tool, instead of focusing on [...]