Export promotion agencies in both countries are to implement a program of coaching on exporting and preinternationalization.
The Association of Producers and Exporters of Nicaragua (APEN) and the ProChile Agency will sign an agreement in the coming weeks bringing great benefits to small and medium enterprises from both countries.
According to Juan Manuel Sánchez, COO of APEN, "This agreement establishes a series of actions to benefit Nicaraguan and Chilean SMEs, enabling them to take advantage of business opportunities following the recent entry into force of the Free Trade Agreement between Nicaragua and Chile. "
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.
Coaching in action. Exceptional example of the teacher/pupil relationship, with the greatest expositor of all time.
If creativity is down in your company. If the search for new ideas has been abandoned. If you hear too much the phrase "impossible" versus the phrase "yes we can". If your managers have stop being teachers for their subordinates, and there is a need to reignite innovation.
"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.