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I look forward to share some items from my dusted-off, mental shelf. Perhaps some of the presented views, recaps, and observations may find value in your dialogue - whether where you work or where you roam. I also use the social media site Digg to comment and post stories in and around business and talent management. Look for my most recent Digg stories on each page of this website. | |
Posted by Toby Elwin on Thursday, February 4, 2010,
In :
Organization Behavior
What is the cost of culture? Why is it even worth identifying corporate culture? Let's start with what is culture. Culture is the values, norms, assumptions, expectations, and definitions that characterize organizations or affectionately known as: how things are done around here Culture is often a holdover from the founder(s) actions; sometimes developed consciously by management teams who decide to improve their company’s performance in systemic ways; and sometimes, in the absence of di... Continue reading...
Posted by Toby Elwin on Friday, January 29, 2010,
In :
Talent Management
Emotional Intelligence is a capacity to recognize how our own emotions motivate ourselves and the awareness of our emotions on others. Still a little to warm and fuzzy? What about a 30% increase in bottom line performance? Emotional Intelligence is vital to maximize any return on human capital. Why does this matter? The happier your people are, and you can't claim happiness without clarity and consistency from your leaders, teams, and organization culture, research shows an increase bot... Continue reading...
Posted by Toby Elwin on Wednesday, January 13, 2010,
In :
Portfolio Planning
It starts with an executive need: a new market evaluation; improve operating margins; a game-changing technology; your competition is eating your lunch. Whatever the reason, a project is how an organization translates an executive strategy. The ability to scope and deliver a project is a competitive advantage. The best organizations realize project management capability as a strategic differentiator, the lagging organizations only staff project management skills within Information Technol... Continue reading...
Posted by Toby Elwin on Thursday, December 31, 2009,
In :
Talent Management
RSS streams, Tweets, eBooks, email, meetings, phone calls, magazines, social media, and books, to name a few, I propose 2010 the year of less noise and more decisions. We are swimming, some might say drowning, in communication saturation*. Nearing the end of the year I thought to post this blog to share with others my goal to manage noise and get an idea from many of you how you approach information and communication saturation to break ourselves from being slaves of the feed**. Knowledge i... Continue reading...
Posted by Toby Elwin on Wednesday, December 23, 2009,
In :
Organization Behavior
Cultures are characterized by how things are done around here . Culture is sometimes adopted from the founder, sometimes developed consciously by teams who try to improve performance, and sometimes culture is formed in reaction to a lack of leadership or need for survival.
Culture emerges from collective:
- behavior,
- values,
- norms,
- assumptions,
- expectations, and
- process
When organization culture is set, it is difficult to change. Reasons you need to change an organization culture might include:... Continue reading...
Posted by Toby Elwin on Thursday, December 17, 2009,
In :
Organization Behavior
Meetings, meetings, and more meetings. We have meetings to clear up confusion, to communicate, to interact, to make decisions, to listen, and to collaborate. Too many meetings end without clear decisions and too often it is not
until after the meeting is finished when the real conversations begin when people: - complain about not being heard,
- complain about pushy agendas,
- hold back their cooperatation,
- complain about lack of involvement
Those type of meetings waste time and create acrimony, which ... Continue reading...
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