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- Training Is Not Enough
- Designing training that allows adults to learn is no simple feat in itself. A designer once the objectives of the training are understood has to design training with four major elements in mind. Participants must recognise the need for information and rapport with the trainer must be established early, otherwise...
- White papers
- Set A Goal And Eliminate Organisational Inertia
- The goal can change from year to year, quarter to quarter, if the organisation is good enough to achieve them in short time frames. Goals should change, as achieving a previous goal will unearth new opportunities and changing organisation environmental factors will change what success looks like. The goal must...
- White papers 2009-01-01
- Want A Performance Enhancer? Try Strong, Clear Goals
- Strong goals vary between organisations. However they have some common attributes. They are usually singular. There is no clutter, no subtext, no ambiguity about what the organisation is setting out to achieve. They are usually more audacious than employees would have set for the organisation or for their division of...
- White papers 2009-01-01
- Some Thoughts On Organisational Goals
- There's no point in setting a goal that nobody believes in, or failing to provide the support required by departments or individuals in achieving the goal. Saying "All right, our goal is x, off you go and achieve it" will almost inevitably result in failure. Moral, financial and training support...
- White papers 2009-01-01
- Goal Incongruence Creates Low Productivity
- The most common category of incongruence between stated goal and behaviour comes from having multiple goals. Multiple goals create uncertainty about primacy. Primacy of goals is necessary to avoid incongruence. Without an identified prime goal and target ranges set for it and the subordinate goals business objectives, different leaders will...
- White papers 2009-01-01
- SWOT Analysis Revisited
- Many skills are admired and sought by individuals who want to progress in an organization. But one which would make them more effective in an organization is usually treated indifferently, by the individual and the organization. People studying for their MBA and aspiring executives concentrate their learning on marketing, strategy,...
- White papers 2009-01-01
- What Should You Look For When Selecting An IT Service Provider?
- Projects which lack deliberate thought and meander from milestone to milestone are common in small business and large businesses. People leading the project, who have little, if any, experience leading projects is the ever present factor. Insentience is the most common failure mode of projects and project teams in businesses....
- White papers 2009-01-01
- Making Decisions Difficult
- Decisions, it seems, are getting more difficult. It is getting harder to know what to make a decision about and it seems to be getting harder to make the "Right" decision. It follows that leadership and management are becoming harder competencies to master. Even twenty years ago, life in an...
- White papers 2008-01-01
- Negotiating Skills; What's My Interest?
- The Palestinian Prime Minister had received support from militants to give up their weapons in exchange for government jobs. On face value it struck the author as a stark example of the difference between a person's interest and position. The position of the "Militants" is well publicised, their interests however,...
- White papers 2006-08-31
- Building Critical Mass In A Change Management Programme
- A change management programme succeeds only when the change in processes and outcomes become embedded in day-to-day business. For a change programme to be embedded into day-to-day business, a critical mass of employees and managers must be emotionally tied to the change in business outcomes and the change in processes...
- White papers 2007-06-18
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- Change Factory
- In today's dynamic business environment, an organization has to perennially manage change. The organization undergoes transition in order to manage change. It is important for the growth and development of the organization. One of the signs of a healthy organization is the continuous management of change and involvement of the...
- White papers 2000-06-01
- The Leather Factory, Inc. Renamed Tandy Leather Factory, Inc. Stockholders Vote Overwhelming Approval of Name Change
- FORT WORTH, Texas -- Stockholders voted overwhelmingly to change the name of The Leather Factory, Inc. (AMEX: TLF) to Tandy Leather Factory, Inc. at the company's annual stockholders meeting held in Arlington, Texas yesterday.
- Research articles 2005-05-24
- Change Business Directions to Ride Out the Downturn
- Every company looks at changing course when its business gets sour. In such a downturn of one, when a company sees its market position wobble, changing course may become its only option. We've seen companies like Apple, IBM and Nintendo survive their own downturns of one, do something creative and...
- Blog posts 2008-10-24
- Vestas closes Isle of Wight wind turbine blade factory
- 12-08-09 Over four hundred workers at the Vestas wind turbine operations on the Isle of Wight and Southampton were dismissed today (August 12) as the company closed its only UK manufacturing facilities. The Danish company said that it was ceasing its blade production activities following more than three months of...
- News items 2009-08-12
- Burlington utilizes change manager - the Burlington Coat Factory Warehouse uses software from Sequent Computers to develop a system to manage its change rollout - Brief Article
- The Burlington Coat Factory Warehouse, Lebanon, N.H., used software purchased from Sequent Computers, Beaverton, Ore., to develop a system for the Oracle DBMS from Oracle Corp., Redwood Shores, Calif., to manage its change rollout. "The software came from Sequent, and the process was develop in-house," said Marjorie Schejter, manager...
- Research articles 1993-11-01
- Job market and factory activity remain weak
- By Burton Frierson NEW YORK (Reuters) - Job losses in the moribund U.S. economy mounted last week and manufacturing remained in dire straits this month, while other data on Thursday showed the threat of deflation persisted in December. The number of workers filing new claims for unemployment benefits rose to...
- News items 2009-08-07
- Republic Bank's new coin factory turns spare change into immediate cash
- Those kids with piggy banks in hand and their parents carrying heavy socks into Republic Bank & Trust Company banking centers in the Lexington area aren't all that much of a mystery. Republic has a new Coin Factory, a free service that counts spare change and produces a receipt that...
- Research articles 2002-08-01
- Hudson, N.Y., Furniture Factory Gets New Ownership.
- By Jeremy Boyer, Times Union, Albany, N.Y. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jan. 14--A new ownership team has taken control of a Columbia County factory that makes furniture for the restaurant and hospitality industries. LB Furniture Industries LLC took over the...
- Research articles 2003-01-14
- Cabinet Factory of La Crosse, WI, will change its name to WalzCraft Industries Inc
- Cabinet Factory of La Crosse, WI, will change its name to WalzCraft Industries Inc., effective Jan. 1, 2003.
- Research articles 2002-12-01
- Court Rules Wisconsin Cheese Factory Discriminated Against Disabled Worker.
- By Dennis Chaptman, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jul. 12--MADISON, Wis.--A Wisconsin cheese factory discriminated against a worker confined to a wheelchair after a 1996 car accident when it refused to rehire her or change her job duties, the state...
- Research articles 2003-07-12
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