A guide for choosing board members for small or family businesses so as to ensure good governance.
An article by Luz Maria Salamis in Prensa.com summarizes the teachings of Julie Garland McLellan, a consulting expert, for choosing better directors and so ensure the health and progress of the company:
-Identify board members who add value in order to grow the company as far as your expectations, and beyond.
Professional coaching: an interactive process that helps individuals and their organizations improve their performance and be successful.
To prevent frequent confusion, it is worth recapping what Coaching is not about, particularly to distinguish it from the work of consultants or therapists.
An article from Altonivel suggests that Coaching is not what is happening when:
Guidelines to be successful are though in any MBA school, but it is not following them what leads to memorable success.
And it seems that passion is the main ingredient to know which rules to break and when to do it.
Passion is a common factor in many great achievements –but also in monumental failures. By analyzing the lives and projects of two giants in their industries, James Cameron in cinema and Steve Jobs in computers, Bnet.com lays out three very special traits shared by these individuals, crucial in making their passion lead to success instead of failure.
"In a Hierarchy Every Employee Tends to Rise to His Level of Incompetence" Laurence J. Peter.
In her blog in Elfinancierocr.com, Margaret Grigsby reviews Peter Principle, using as a paradigmatic example the case of Diego Maradona, and his performance as football player and now as head coach of Argentina's national soccer team.
She says: "It is frequent for employees to be promoted based on their functional or technical skills.
Intended to complement traditional coaching, transactional coaching applies Transactional Analysis techniques for leadership development.
Transactional Analysis is a practical theory regarding personality, communication and groups. Through an extensive conceptual framework, Transactional Analysis offers a structure that servers as a guide to conducting effective interventions at the individual, group or organizational level.
FedEx Express is first, Kimberly Clark second, followed by Oracle Caribbean, SC Johnson, Diageo, McDonalds and Agrisal Group.
In the rankings elaborated by the Great Place to Work Institute of Central America and the Caribbean, FedEx repeated as the best company to work for within Central America and the Caribbean.
In an article in Elperiodico.com.gt, Jorge Ferrari, president of Great Place to Work Institute of Central America and the Caribbean, stated that "it is no coincidence that these companies provide excellent operating results. Their human resource development has become their secret weapon for competing in the markets."
After payroll reductions, the climate within the company darkens like a room with fewer light bulbs.
It is not easy to lead after taking steps to reduce personnel. In these hard times of crisis, it is very likely that we will be faced with this situation.
In her Coaching and Innovation blog in Elfinancierocr.com, Margaret Grigsby discussed the issue and gave some guidelines for overcoming the bitter taste left by the layoffs: "It's very ugly.
Peter Drucker said, “the purpose of a business is to create and keep a customer”, and much of that work happens smack-dab in the middle of companies.
1 - You know how stuff really gets done. Let’s face it, process maps mean very little when you know that to get your PC up and running again, the fastest route is to buy a muffin for Oscar in IT.
2 - You know what motivates individuals.
The first thing to point out is that work isn’t separate from life — it’s a part of it. For some people, it’s not a fun part of life, but for others, it’s a passion. Either way, it’s a part of our lives, good or bad.
I have a close friend named Norm who is a great photographer and a great person in general … recently he was telling me that all he does is work.
It is noteworthy that with the recent economic crisis, those who have to make important decision have seen an increase in pressure and stress
Stress is good and can be bad (distress), depending on its intensity. While stress is an innate part of the human being, and is need for action, it can also cause serious damage to the health of business persons, leaders, and workers, negatively affecting the performance of the company.