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Consulting Pulse: Time Management – Covey’s 4 quadrants
Urgent? Or Not? Great conversation Friday with a long term colleague regarding process improvements, Lean Six Sigma, etc. He reminded me of one of Stephen Covey’s (7 Habit’s Fame) key time management...
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Holiday Gifts at Work
It’s the time of year where a flurry of presents is exchanged in the midst of colorful bows, wrapping paper and gift bags. How should you handle giving gifts at your workplace? This is one of the...
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Gift Poll
Today we posted on giving gifts in the workplace. Please share who is on your gift list this holiday season by taking our poll: Take Our Poll Posted in Professional and Social Networking Tagged: Gifts,...
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Holiday Work Parties
Many of us are in the midst of holiday work parties which is one of the topics we discuss for TAPUniversity’s online Working with People course. Have fun at your holiday work parties, and enjoy your...
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Virtual Teams Relationships
We now have the technology to allow people to communicate, transfer information, and work together all across the world without meeting each other face-to-face. This is making virtual teams...
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Acculturation in Organizations
“Welcome to the company, Kaite!” says Kenneth. “Thanks, I just finished the 3-day orientation session” says Kaite. “Did they talk about the Kentucky Derby taboo?” whispered Kenneth. “Uhh…no.” said...
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Communication – BAR SOAP
Freshly scrubbed and nice smelling communication is always appreciated by team members Lack of communication can be the kiss of death for information technology projects. Industry data often points to...
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Agile Principle 1 – Customer Focus
That's your customer looking back at you - do you see and understand them? The four values of the Agile Manifesto (Individuals, Customer, Working Software and Change) are further elaborated in twelve...
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Agile Principle 5 – Motivate, Support and Trust People
Is it a radical concept, motivate, support and trust people? No. Not really. The Agile principle of building projects around motivated individuals is clearly a Theory Z , Y or Herzberg management...
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Triming LinkedIn Connections
Two years ago I entered the fray of open networker, or “LION‘s” in LinkedInjargon, for a two-week test before a series of presentations Time for a networking cut! concerning pro-social networking to...
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