Evaluating a company’s a macro-environment begins with understanding the external factors affecting your company’s industry and competitive landscape. In this 2nd post of our 4-part strategy series, we’ll dig into understanding your company’s competitive environment.
Asking the right questions, assessing the competitive environment, and continuously revisiting the assumptions and decisions behind your strategic direction to determine if a change or corrective actions are needed. This is at the core of defining and executing on a competitive strategy. In this 4-part series, I’ll cover the fundamentals of strategy and competition. Strategy…
Managing a team is about creating an environment where individuals can thrive, flourish and produce their best work. Read ahead to learn 10 simple principles to maximize your success!
Giving and receiving feedback involves a complex set of interpersonal dynamics, managing the ‘gives’ and ‘takes’ between the intentions and desires of two different individuals. In this post I’ll share some upon how to handle some common situations encountered when giving and receiving feedback between you and your peers. Let’s get started.
Knowing how to receive feedback is half the battle. The receiver has a responsibility to be mindful of the context of the feedback, as well as self-aware of his or her own biases. This post will expand on the dynamics and awareness required to effectively receive feedback; including: Defensive Triggers Blind Spots Context & Intentions System Dynamics Content credit for…
Last post I covered the importance of feedback. In this post, I’ll share with you some of the best frameworks I’ve found for giving feedback; including: One Minute Manager, by Ken Blanchard Google’s SBI Model Thanks for the Feedback, by Douglas Stone and Sheila Heen Let’s get started..
As a manager and team player, feedback is one of the highest-leverage activities you can use to achieve and sustain high performance. Giving feedback empowers others to identify ways to improve the quality of their work. Receiving feedback demonstrates humility and your commitment to your own personal growth.
The Project Life Cycle is broken down into 5 phases: Project Initiation Project Planning Project Execution Project Monitoring & Controlling Project Closeout Let’s look at the final phase, Project Closeout, in detail.
The Project Life Cycle is broken down into 5 phases: Project Initiation Project Planning Project Execution Project Monitoring & Controlling Project Closeout Let’s look at the 4th phase, Project Monitoring & Controlling, in detail.
A mentor of mine shared an interesting piece of advice on managing others. It went: “When managing others, focus on the results that you want done, not how you want the work done.” This piece of advice is useful for a number of reasons: It scopes your focus on tangible, business outcomes. It empowers your…
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