Posts Tagged ‘management’

Executives often struggle with the gray areas. Leading the troops is difficult when marching orders are qualified by phrases such as “relative to”, “within limits”, or “balanced approach”. However, in the world of marketing, particularly channel marketing, balance is everything. Like an aerialist walking a tightrope, channel marketers must constantly strike a balance between [...]

Learning Management System Video
Are you aware that you can train many employees at the same time having bases of a learning management system? Off-shore operations employees cannot be trained at a specific time or in a specific place. Besides, such an activity would be extremely expensive.

We wont be exaggerating if we say that a learning management system is the best tool for providing high quality distance learning facilities, in all ways. Online tools certainly come handy for companies which have branches in different countries with a large number of employees. A learning management system is capable of uniting employees [...]

For quite some time Online Training has been gaining popularity throughout the world. This training is one of the best choices for any organization wherein the employees can take up courses without going out of office or home. Effectively, this learning procedure enables the employees to learn without any difficulty.

A highly knowledgeable workforce gives the company an upper hand over its competitors. Many companies are adopting online training methods to train up their employees. Online training lets employees get knowledge on the various day-to-day things needed to shine in their profession.

My companies management team recently decided to send a group of us on a a teambuilding exercise. The teambuilding exercise resulted in a couple of my colleagues resigning and one now facing disciplinary action.
Although attendance was not compulsory everyone signed up as they were worried that not going would be bad for their careers.

My company bosses, in their infinite wisdom, recently put myself and a group of my workmates on a teambuilding camping trip. The outcome has been two colleagues resigning and one undergoing disciplinary action for gross misconduct.
Although attendance was not compulsory everyone signed up as they were worried that not going would be bad for [...]

Note: because this book is both heavy and complex, I am publishing the summary in two parts. Here is the second part, the first part is here.
Summary and Book Review, second part:
 

Chapter 9 : Communication and relationships

For a long time during our civilization, the slowness of communications posed several problems. Many [...]

One Sentence Summary : Project management is a complicated art which requires you to master a number of things such as planning, understanding what needs to be done, writing a good overall vision statement, understanding where ideas come from, understanding what to do with ideas, writing good specifications, understanding how to make good decisions, communication [...]

Controlling a project when the team doesn’t report to you

One Sentence Summary: Today in large organizations, it is rare that the project lead has supervisory power over all the people on his project team. He must, however, maintain enthusiasm, motivation and results from people without being able to use the power of his position [...]