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It’s All About the People Recently I came across this in Material Handling Wholesaler. It is well worth reading and talks to elements of the management job that we feel are critical for successful businesses. 7 Steps to Turn Employee Potential into Performance Imagine on Monday, you discover that your meticulous, rule-following accountant and creative, […]
Why Do We Do What We Do? One of the most widely watched TED talks was by Simon Sinek called “start with why.” It has been four months short of fifty years that I have been involved working in this Industry. When people questioned what I wanted to do with my life when I entered […]
The Why and the How. The transition to team management, while still encouraging personal curiosity and initiative, continues to struggle as the usual leadership doesn’t know how to encourage risk taking without contradicting the work of the team. The true story of the ages is that people will take risks when they have less to […]
Badges and Socrates Continued: A Look at the Big Picture Last week, we took a look at the price tag attached to formal university education, and the reality of the “brand” driving the costs. Now we turn to Mark Kamlet, the Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA. He talks about the changes in the school […]
Coaching is Critical Leadership, which is a required aspect or skill of management, cannot be done successfully without the leader being a great coach. Being a great coach means that you are a terrific communicator. However, time becomes your enemy. You really will never have enough time to provide pertinent feedback to your direct reports. […]
Coaching We are constantly looking to our clients to help us determine what additional learning classes we should create. We get a lot of very good suggestions. Recently, I was asked to create selling skills classes for service management and supervision, foremen and customer contact personnel. We are creating those classes now. Another suggestion from […]
How Do You Measure Learning? Over the past two months or so you have heard me talk about the end of college as we know it today. Kevin Carey goes into a lot of detail about this in his terrific book “The End of College.” He exposes the fact that Colleges and Universities have a […]
Personal Responsibility – Part 3 In the last two posts, I have discussed the work of Jordan Peterson, and how it ties into education and learning. I’ve also covered what it is to commit to learning as an adult, and the unique challenges those of use who have real-life and on-the-job experience can face when […]
Personal Responsibility – Part 2 If you remember my last post, I left off with the challenges that face us when we move into the realm of teaching and learning as adults. Open-mindedness is a critical component of the entire process, and we become more “set” in our ways with each passing year. That brings […]
Learning Without Scars was created to fill a void in the Capital Goods Industries, specifically the light and heavy equipment space. With technical schools closing at an alarming rate the markets we serve were becoming unable to find the talents and skills they required in the operational areas of the business, parts and service specifically. […]