“For good ideas and true innovation, you need human interaction, conflict, argument, and debate.” Margaret Heffernan Conflict is an inevitable part of growth. To manage conflict appropriately, you need to adopt a mindset that conflict is natural and productive. If you don’t adjust your mindset and view conflict as healthy and necessary, you can stifle… read more
Taken from Amazon.com: Are you struggling to manage your time efficiently? Do you have the feeling you could be much more productive if only you used the right workflow strategy during your day? Enter the Time Chunking Method. It’s one of the most popular time management strategies used today. Students, corporate managers, small business owners… read more
Have you ever started a Monday dreading the coming week because of all of the things you need to accomplish? You start the week feeling overwhelmed and stressed when you haven’t even begun to actually work and by the time you get into the office you’re drained. Does this sound familiar? It does not need… read more
Why Focusing on Strengths is Crucial in the Workplace At some point in your career, you have discovered your strengths and weaknesses — or have you? Reflect on a moment when you were faced with a task, but you were not 100% confident about it. Did you focus more on what you can… read more
Taken from Amazon.com: Master the art of communication to improve outcomes in any scenario. Simply Said is the essential handbook for business communication. Do you ever feel as though your message hasn’t gotten across? Do details get lost along the way? Have tense situations ever escalated unnecessarily? Do people buy into your ideas? It all… read more
If you were given two minutes to describe your business vision, obstacles, strategy, and financial position, could you do it? Many people can but how well they do it likely depends on how developed their business acumen is. Business acumen is your ability to understand how your business operates, generates revenue, and creates current and… read more
Leveraging Predictive Index® with Business Results LLC and Crestcom Leaders and managers at all levels are tasked with driving their company’s objectives by working with their teams. They have power over their direct reports’ activities and ideally should guide their team’s initiatives — really rally the troops — to make great things happen. Think about… read more
If you are in a management or leadership position at work, you may feel under a certain amount of pressure whenever the time comes to make important decisions. This can be stressful, as your decision will affect not only yourself but also those who work for you and beside you. This is why it is… read more
Taken from Amazon.com: Learn why bad decisions happen to good managers―and how to make better ones. If you read nothing else on decision making, read these 10 articles. We’ve combed through hundreds of articles in the Harvard Business Review archive and selected the most important ones to help you and your organization make better choices… read more
The Marines can face extremely challenging and urgent situations in which they are forced to make critical decisions in a short period of time. While most of you are not in the battlefield, you will still need to make strategic decisions that impact the success of your organization. Perhaps you are deciding on a strategic… read more
