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Workplace Survey, Findings 1.Workers are struggling to work effectively. When focus is compromised in pursuit of Collaboration, neither works well. 2. Effective workplaces balance focus and collaboration. Workplaces designed to enable collaboration without sacrificing employees’ ability to focus are more successful. 3. Choice drives performance and innovation. Employers who provide a spectrum of choices for when and where to work are seen as more innovative and have higher-performing employees.
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LEADING COLLABORATIVE DECISION MAKING PROCESSES
- Created on Friday, 19 July 2013 00:31
- Last Updated on Friday, 19 July 2013 00:31
- Written by From “Facilitating Collaborative Decision-Making in Six Steps” by Sharon Weinberg
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Collaborative decision-making can be difficult. However, using a simple six-step process, managers can structure their decision making processes in a way that promotes team and stakeholder collaboration.
Most decisions fail because of organizational rather than analytical issues. Poor leadership, a faulty problem-solving process, poor teamwork, and lack of commitment are often the underpinnings of failed decision processes. Failed decision processes lead to conflict, loss of credibility, diminished competitive advantage, increased costs, inadequate inclusion of stakeholders, and poor implementation. Here is a six-step process to help to improve organizational processes and teams to improve decision-making.
Read more...HOW TO IMPROVE YOUR COMPANY'S POSITIONING
- Created on Tuesday, 21 May 2013 22:20
- Last Updated on Tuesday, 21 May 2013 23:18
- Written by From “The Power of Positioning” by Christine Comaford)
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How to distinguish yourself from the competition to be sure you have a preferred place in your target customer's mind. You know who you are. But do your customers? Are you who you were last year? If not, have you communicated how you've changed?
Positioning is the process of distinguishing yourself from competitors in specific ways in order to be the preferred provider for certain market segments. It's the act of designing your company's offer and image so it occupies a distinct and valued place in the targeted customer's mind. The main benefit of clear positioning is that it controls how the market perceives you and helps make your products and/or services more attractive.
Read more...PREDICTING THE FUTURE OF WORKPLACE
- Created on Monday, 18 February 2013 22:03
- Last Updated on Monday, 18 February 2013 22:03
- Written by From “The Future of Work” by Lynda Gratton
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The question we face now is how the working consciousness of current and future employees will be further transformed in the age of technology and globalization. What is inevitable is that work will change dramatically and the workforce will be employed in ways we can hardly imagine.
The past six generations have experienced the most rapid and profound change mankind has experienced in its 5,000 years of recorded history. If the world economy continues to grow at the same pace as the last half-century, in 2050 the world will be seven times richer than it is today, world population could be over 9 billion and average wealth will also have increased dramatically.
Read more...HOW TO BUILD A COLLABORATIVE WORKPLACE ENVIRONMENT
- Created on Sunday, 24 March 2013 23:34
- Last Updated on Monday, 25 March 2013 00:18
- Written by From “Building Collaborative Organizations” by Jim Tamm
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When too many people in a company lack collaborative skills there is a very low trust, high blame, un-supportive workplace. People are less open, so it is more difficult to solve problems. They avoid risk taking because if anything goes wrong someone will get blamed.
When IBM was picking their next generation of leaders, all the people they picked had a skill that IBM called "collaborative influence." It's the ability to get people to do things when you don't control their salary; i.e., they do so simply because you have a good relationship. When Bell Labs looked closely at the difference between their good employees and the real stars, they found that the stars were adept at building collaborative networks. They knew who they could call when they had a problem. Other people were willing to help out because of the relationships that had been built.
Read more...HOW TO CREATE A BREAKTHROUGH PERFORMANCE
- Created on Monday, 21 January 2013 00:03
- Last Updated on Monday, 21 January 2013 00:03
- Written by From “Achieving Breakthrough Performance” by Mark Gottfredson, Steve Schaubert and Elizabeth Babcock
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Although successful managers must have the attributes of a great leader, by themselves these attributes are not enough. Many great leaders still do not build successful organizations.
Non-profits that deliver great results over time are best positioned to survive, grow, and have an impact. Non profits that perform poorly, on the other hand, end up irrelevant or even as failures. And non profits that perform merely satisfactorily are vulnerable to shifts in the funding climate or the political environment.
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