Effective Workplace Communication

George Bernard Shaw (pictured), famous playwright and Nobel Prize for Literature winner, once said, « The greatest problem with communication is the assumption that it has taken place. » How true. I was reflecting on a blog entry from the Harvard Business Review when I came across the quote above. As I thought deeper, I came to…

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Managing Energy Not Time

Recently, I was reading “The Productivity Paradox” by Tony Schwartz on Harvard Business Review and it was something of a revelation to me. Every day we hear people struggling with time management but what about the idea of managing energy not time? Tony Schwartz is the CEO of The Energy Project and one of the…

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Leadership and Succession Planning

Recently, I had an interesting conversation with a friend about leadership. He started by asking me how I thought leadership should be defined. What is leadership? What is a leader? I’ve heard many definitions – some rather thought-provoking and some rather laughable. Either way, one thing is quite clear – for a leader to lead,…

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Team Dynamics: Developing Workplace Communication Skills

I recently came across an Article in the Harvard Business Review entitled « Eight Ways to Build Collaborative Teams« , written by Lynda Gratton and Tamar Erickson, that detailed an extensive study of the factors that contribute to healthy and collaborative working teams. This study included 55 different working teams comprising 1,543 people from 15 different multinational…

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Goal Setting Fundamentals

How many companies have company-wide and individual goals? It’s not a trick question; the answer, of course, is that all companies have goals. But how many companies actually train their employees on how to set goals? How to create goals that are challenging and achievable? The second point (achievability) cannot be overlooked; the tendency is…

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