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Why Businesses
Need to Start Nurturing Collective Wisdom
By Marcus Goncalves
Editorial Note. The value of employees comes in many forms,
but there is one attribute that is often underestimated. What is it?
The amount of knowledge each employees collects over time . Whether
it is called collective wisdom, intellectual capital, knowledge or
any other term, it is an asset that you need to protect, enhance and
appreciate. Kay
Graham-Gilbert
COLLECTIVE WISDOM CAN BE AN effective tool
for solving the problem of knowledge deficit, or the
underutilization of organizational knowledge. If you are a small,
medium or large business, and you don’t have a method in place for
harnessing and managing your organization’s collective knowledge,
you may be losing opportunities for significant revenue enhancement.
According to a study by the Delphi Group, less than 20 percent of
knowledge available to an enterprise is actually used.
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Leadership
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Whack Up 'Long Side The Head Of Human Resources: The Leadership
Imperative
In this environment, a new kind of leadership must be
cultivated — leadership that aims not to order others to go
from point A to point B — but instead that aims to motivate
them to want take the leadership in going from A to B.
The Top Mistakes Executives
Make in Leading
Their Organizations:
Four Tips on Common Leadership Pitfalls to Avoid
In today’s uncertain economy, many organizations have been making
some drastic changes to stay competitive and productive. This means that
CEOs and other executives have to hone their leadership skills to make
the most of what they have and encourage and inspire their teams to new
heights of achievement.
10 Ways to Beef up your
Leadership Skills
Have you ever heard someone say,
“Actually, I have to admit that I think I am really bad at managing
other people. My staff all hate me and I’m incapable of doing my job”.
Training
Tales from the Corporate
Frontlines: Training is in the Eye of the Beholder
This article relates to the Training competency, commonly evaluated in
employee surveys. It comments on the value of training to both the
company and its workforce. The Training competency investigates how your
employees perceive the available training opportunities and quality of
training. Growing an organization's internal knowledge base is crucial
to...
People
Management
Effective Ways to
Motivate Employees
What is it that drives an employee? More specifically, what is it that
causes an employee to WANT
to do his or her job? After all, the answer to this question is the
key...
Dealing with
Difficult People
When people behave towards you in a manner that makes you feel angry,
frustrated or annoyed - this is known as a Hook. We can even become
"Hooked" by...
Examining the
Relationship Between Employee Satisfaction and Customer Satisfaction
Numerous studies have been done to look at the connection between
customer and employee satisfaction. A majority of these studies were
able to uncover...
What do Employees Really Want?
In fact there is a significant disconnect
between the things that employees say are important to them, and how
highly employers rank those same things. When asked to rank a list
of ten criteria, the employees and managers/owners ranked them...
Are you in AWE of your Employees
Employers have become so concerned about seeming “unfair”
or worse becoming the victims of lawsuits by unhappy ex-employees that
they’ve stopped requiring minimum standards of employees. This can only
lead to...
Five Habits of Highly Effective
Conflict Resolvers
Steven Covey had the right idea. This article shares a
selection of habits and attitudes that can transform a good conflict
resolver into a highly effective one. By that I mean...
People Literacy
Every Manager has experienced the frustration of not
understanding why one management approach that works beautifully with
one employee is ineffective with another. That’s because...
Teams
Checklist For High Performing Teams
Why do some teams perform well while others struggle? How
can you assess how effectively your team is working now, and identify
methods for improvement? Research shows that 85% of...
Corporate Team Building
There is a WHOLE lot of talk these
days about Corporate Team Building. Some of the foundational
building blocks within team spirit, whether within a corporation or a
family, are the ones that are most simple and natural.
Performance
<%INDEXCONTENT%>Setting
Performance Standards for your Employees
The success of your business is directly related to the
commitment and productivity of the people who work in your business. And
yet it is generally recognized that 60% of employees, or more, are...
The Top Ten Ways to Change a Mediocre
Employee Into a High Performing One
No one starts out wanting to be mediocre. We
each have an innate desire to please, to excel at something. So why then
do so many employees seem to work beneath their potential?
Ethics
Work Attitude Ethics For Progress
This "fruit for thought" article is for all human beings, who somehow find themselves in the role of breadwinner and striving to improve their living standards.
The heading of this article could just as well have been "How to position yourself for promotion" or "How to position yourself for career advancement" or "How to climb the success ladder" or something similar.
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