“I have begun enforcing disciplinary measures on an employee due to her lateness and absenteeism. I know the employee is telling ‘her side of the story’ to anyone who will listen. How can I make my small team aware of this appropriately?” My advice would be not to make your team aware of another employee’s …

(Guest post from John Scherer, Co-Director of Scherer Leadership International. This is the fifth blog post in a six-part series about the history of Organizational Development, “On the Shoulders of Giants.” (In the last issue, we featured the work of Kurt Lewin, the ‘grandfather’ of the change movement, and the teacher of one of John’s …

As a Technical Writer, you have no control over the number of revisions a document will go through when it comes to, for example, the Requirements document or the Technical and Functional Specifications. Even if you have attended every meeting to gather information for the new product, problems will arise. Why? Because more than likely, …

Most business leaders are just too busy to take time out, sit down with the team, and dedicate time to develop a solid, up-to-date marketing strategy and marketing plan.

This is something that we do often and often realize the wrong results from it. It happened to me this morning in a very obvious way and I’m sure it continues to happen in ways I don’t even realize. The Situation I’m driving this morning to take my son and a few of his buddies …

Media and marketing statistics give marketing executives insights, so they can communicate with their target audience in more meaningful ways.

The Summer Is A Great Time To Make New Things Start To Happen !! It would be a good time for a Development Program Analysis/Assessment/Audit to take a look at your current fundraising activities/programs to determine: • What you’re not doing that you could do; and, • What you’re doing that you could do more …

It’s about being prepared When a crisis is hot, stakeholders want information. It doesn’t matter if your main office is sitting under 10 feet of water, people are going to expect responses both on the phone and through Twitter, and they will count on an explanation being posted to your blog and Facebook wall in …

It’s that time of year again – time to create your Individual Development Plan or IDP. Staring down at the “official” corporate IDP form, one is reminded how limiting management theory has become (see Gary Hamel’s new book and website for more). So here’s a thought, for yourself and your key talent, do some management …

Miriam is the Regional Managing Director for a large multi-national company. She oversees a group of companies that manufacture and sell products across the region and also export from it. One of the subsidiaries in her group is in a country that has a small market for the products and is fundamentally unprofitable. She has …