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February 11, 2013
How to Manage Team Conflict: 4 Types of Conflict All Managers Must Address
Management’s objective is not to resolve conflict, it is to overcome it.
Conflict is an uncomfortable aspect of any relationship, especially when it exists among members of your team. As a manager, you have the responsibility to not only address the issues as they come up, but also to establish a culture that prevents them from occurring in the first place. Doing this requires an emotional awareness of relationships among team members, between you and your employees, and your employees and other departments. Your ability to manage conflict successfully is...Continue reading
By Lisa WoodsPosted in Management on February 11, 2013
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February 6, 2013
Top 15 Leadership, Management & Team Building Retreats in the US - 2013
Offsite Meeting Checklist & Guide to Effective Meeting Management
Offsite meetings can provide a cost effective way to bring several benefits to your organization, and team, if you know how to take full advantage of them through choice of venue, proper planning, execution and event follow-up. At ManagingAmericans.com we believe the right venue provides the ability to keep your group focused on creativity, teamwork & generating better business results once they return to work. There are many beautiful, relaxing and luxurious meeting locations across the...Continue reading
By Lisa WoodsPosted in Professional Development on February 6, 2013
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February 1, 2013
Complacency in the Workplace: Overcome Bad Attitudes With Accountable Leadership
4 Reasons Why Complacency Exists & What Management Can Do to Annihilate It
Those annoying words are like scratches on a chalkboard. “This is the way we always do it.” Can you image living life with that attitude? You would never grow, improve or try new things…what a boring life! In business, boring companies don’t grow their revenue, they don’t make continuous improvements to their products, processes, or services, and they are certainly NOT innovators. So how do you lead an organization that has an attitude problem, without...Continue reading
By Lisa WoodsPosted in Leadership & Teambuilding on February 1, 2013
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January 23, 2013
Lessons Learned Templates & Guide: A Managers Toolkit for Continuous Improvement
Create a cultural shift that will improve your bottom line & make you more competitive.
It happens to all of us. Our organization, employees or project teams make mistakes and change course, table good ideas for a “later” date, or receive unsolicited & undocumented feedback from customers. Unfortunately, we forget to address these lessons as actionable opportunities on how TO DO or how NOT TO DO whatever it is that we learned. Instead of capturing and maintain this knowledge, we put it on the back burner assuming we will get to it later, or that we will remember to...Continue reading
By Lisa WoodsPosted in Leadership & Teambuilding on January 23, 2013
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January 17, 2013
Skills Of A Good Manager - Putting Out Fires
Here Are 5 Ways to Put Out Fires As A New Manager
By Emilie Shoop, Creator and Leader of Shoop Training & Consulting
When you step into your role as manager, there is a lot to learn, a lot to do, and it is easy to get overwhelmed. Almost everyone will tell you that the skills required by managers to learn right away include how to delegate effectively, manage your time wisely, focus on strategic direction, and so on. So will I. No matter what else is going on, all of those skills are crucial to your...Continue reading
By Emilie ShoopPosted in Management on January 17, 2013
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January 12, 2013
6 Actions That Define Great Senior Managers
Are you a bridge or a roadblock to your company’s success?
Executive Leaders set the strategy, Middle Managers execute the day-to-day, in between are Senior Managers..what do they need to do to be successful? Too often senior management creates a roadblock instead of a bridge to their organization’s success. That’s because filtering information from the top and molding it into a vision for the part of the organization they run, is a skill few people have any formal training in. Without the ability to properly filter, communicate and...Continue reading
By Lisa WoodsPosted in Management on January 12, 2013
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January 7, 2013
8 Simple Steps to Streamline Your Process, Increase Profits & Customer Loyalty
In order to reduce the chaos in your organization you need to know where it exists…so do you?
Within any organization there is constant movement: people come and go, management changes, ideas and work processes get updated. In addition to internal flows, external factors ‘poke’ at the organization forcing reactions that may or may not be streamlined into existing processes: technology advancements, increased customer expectations, supplier demands, market competition. Chaos is the reality of most organizations, but they don’t realize it until the bottom line suffers;...Continue reading
By Lisa WoodsPosted in Leadership & Teambuilding on January 7, 2013
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January 5, 2013
3 Major Benefits of Cross-Functional Professional Development
Learn to build professional relationships that make you more valuable to your company.
Sometimes we enjoy working with others, sometimes…not so much. Typically, our enjoyment is based on our relationships; we rely on a personal exchange in order to get along & work cohesively. Simply put, personal exchanges are not enough. Here’s why: Business actions, simple or complex, can become personality struggles when a professional connection does not exist. The real goal is to build professional connections. Cross Functional Development allows you to create...Continue reading
By Lisa WoodsPosted in Professional Development on January 5, 2013
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January 4, 2013
Steve Jobs: Secrets of Life - How Steve Jobs Shaped My Career Without Me Knowing
A Great Motivator to Start Your Year
Wow! Like everyone else, I’ve always been impressed with his work, but never really spent time studying Steve Jobs. That was until last night when I went online to see what kind of management videos are out there. What I found were a multitude of Steve Jobs interviews from the 1980’s through his recent death in 2011. I watched as many of them as I could find. He was amazing, both impressive and inspirational. I never realized how much of an impact he had on my...Continue reading
By Lisa WoodsPosted in Professional Development on January 4, 2013
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December 28, 2012
How To Budget And Forecast
Business Plans, Budgets & Forecasts: A How To Guide For Your Organization
Is your head spinning from all the stress & time spent on business plans, forecasts and budgets? Remember, planning is not a science…it’s an exercise…that should refresh you, keep you agile, and make you feel in control of your destiny! Is that how you feel? As we enter into this year’s budget and forecast season, try to challenge yourself and your team to become more efficient and to create better standards for planning and budgeting. In turn, you will...Continue reading
By Lisa WoodsPosted in Leadership & Teambuilding on December 28, 2012
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