This blog is generally about maximizing performance – sometimes through expanding education, sometimes just by stating the obvious. Today’s post is about the latter. So, here is the obvious employee statement: “I can’t be great if I don’t know what is expected.” No employee can possibly succeed, let alone excel, … Read more
When deciding how to spend your learning investments, consider what the CEO cares about. In broad terms, the CEO wants grow the business and make it more efficient. In very specific terms, it mean increasing revenue and reducing costs. Simple, right? The problem is, we learning and development professional are … Read more
Face it, what we need most from our employees is for them to think through each of the situations they encounter in their days to create the best, most efficient and most profitable response in the moment. However, I find many employees don’t know now to approach their work in … Read more
Last week I had the great pleasure of hearing Ram Charan speak at the Bay Area Executive Development Network meeting. The theme of Charan’s talk was how the Chief Human Resource Officer (CHRO) can add value and build a people engine that will help the business achieve its objectives. Charan has … Read more
When it comes to problems of the body, we all recognize that there are symptoms and there are underlying causes. If you have an aching back, you take an aspirin for relief but you know that the real cause of your problem is a strained muscle and that the little … Read more
