| Management |
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Managing Through Tough Times
Let strategic thinking propel your actions, not fear.
Managing Your Money for the
Future
After years of excessive borrowing by companies and individuals, the leverage
monster has
finally come home to haunt us.
Measuring Your Organization's HR Maturity
Level
Take a moment to complete the short HR Maturity Level 1 Score
Questionnaire (geared
towards small to mid-size companies) to obtain an overview of how well your HR
management efforts are positioned.
How to Be a Successful
Accountable Care Organization
Ensuring this occurs means relooking
at the strategies, processes, structures, and systems currently employed.
Frequently Asked
Questions - How You Can Make a Difference in the
Organization
Important questions to consider about you, and your organization.
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| Organizational
Development |
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Corporate Culture - What
Is Corporate Culture
A basic definition of organizational culture is the collective way we do things
around here.
Talent Management - A Procedural
Guide
You cannot afford to ignore talent management in your organization today, if you
wish to stay
in business tomorrow.
Diversity Management - A Guide
on Implementation
"Opportunity for all, Responsibility from all, Community of all." A discussion on
Diversity Management and how to make it happen.
Handling Layoffs
Layoffs are a strategy of
last resort. That is not to say that layoffs are not a viable strategic option
that, at times, has to be executed.
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| Organizational Ethics |
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Can Every Organization Be
Ethical?
Article 1: Making sure that your organization
is ethical will require you to develop an ethical culture, to establish a
working set of values, to lead the company in implementing those values, and to
make all of the tough decisions that those values are sure to present.
Organizational
Ethics: It’s Not About the Bottom Line
Article 2: There
are benefits to any organization that decides to establish a strong ethical
culture, but it will never be an excellent investment strategy.
Why Would You Do
Something That Wasn’t a Good Investment?
Article 3: There are many actions that we consider to be good to
do, but we don’t judge them by our bottom line.
Building an Ethical
Organization
Article 4: Ethical organizations don’t just happen. You have
to build them. And the place to begin is by creating an ethical
organizational culture.
There Are Benefits to
Being an Ethical Organization
Article 5: Reaping
benefits is not the point of building an ethical organization. However, there
are benefits that can ensue.
An Ethical Organization
Requires Leadership and Commitment Plus Integrity and
Transparency
Article 6: One of the things that
physicists found out centuries ago is that any organized system will, over time,
move towards disorganization. This tendency is called “entropy.”
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| Strategy |
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Strategic Thinking - A Task for
All Employees
Strategic thinking is the process of developing and evaluating every decision and
action in light of current and future circumstances, the direction you want to go
in and the results you want
to achieve.
Strategic Planning
Stated
categorically, strategic planning is not an event. It is a
process.
Strategic Alignment
An essential part of
strategic planning is ensuring that there is strategic alignment. In order
to understand alignment, there is a need to understand systems thinking.
Strategic Execution
A strategic plan’s
intended results can only be realized by following through on its
implementation.
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| Stress
Management |
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Work-Life
Balance
Deadlines, conflicting demands, promised delivery, increased
accessibility, mixed with a need
for a life outside of work, does not easily tip the scales to personal
well-being.
Stress and the
Organization - An Academic Perspective
The Moderator Effects of Hardiness and Social Support on the Person-Environment
(P-E) Fit-Strain Relationship.
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| Training and
Development |
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How to Develop a
Training Strategy
To Develop a Training Strategy you need to focus on
improving the current performance in the organization.
How to Develop a Training
Curriculum
Investing in your people, so as to bring about changes in
behavior and to improve their identified skill sets, is an investment in the
future success of both your people and your organization.
Organization Training Webcast
or Video - What it is and what it's not!
Webcasts,
videos and DVDs are a wonderful extension to an organization's training
resources. They allow for creativity, focus, and an extensive reach.
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