Decision Theory in Complex Systems
Many decisions made during an individual's typical day are made in a distracted state. This process works well until some external event injects itself into the process.
Working in a Large Public Sector Organization in Scotland
Executive Summary We took on a short 12-week assignment with this Public Sector Organisation in January 2010. The quality of our input resulted in our working with them for virtually 12 months ending in January 2011. The scope of our work was to act as “business managers” in support of a very specialist, highly effective, very busy team of five …
Organization of Back Office, Work Streams, Core Purpose and Project Priorities: Coaching in Public Sector
Sector: Public Sector Assignment: Organisation of Back Office, Work Streams, Core Purpose & Project Priorities Period: 2010-2011 Background The highly specialist Team, working within a Directorate in one of the largest organisations in Scotland’s Public Sector, faced enormous challenges in delivering project outcomes against a background of structural change, extremely high volumes of work with regional, national, European & International …
The Controversy over Progress in Coaching
How do you define progress in your coaching engagements? Is that even up to you as the coach to define? What do you do when there is no alignment between the various definitions of how progress will be measured, particularly if the client’s definition clashes with how other stakeholders in the organization might define success? These issues and more are …
Efficiency Systems to Organize Your Business Effectiveness (Faculty: Gerhard Schwandt)
Gerhard talks on We Mean Biz TV about how to be more effective via efficiency: “When The Desk Cries For Help!” Strategies and Actions on how to better organize yourself, your workspace and your organization (Written by Markus Vogel & Gerhard Schwandt) Preface The following pages contain suggestions and helpful hints on how you can better organize yourself, your workspace …
Management vs. Leadership: Facing up to Leadership
In their third and final article on findings from their research into corporate values, Andy Boddice and Peter Robinson conclude that leadership and culture are critical factors for an organization’s success or failure. They explore the critical distinction between management and leadership and the importance of clarity of common purpose in an organization. “We can identify that many CEOs do …
Right Management Claims Leadership Coaching is ‘Not There Yet’
Do you agree? Please login to add your thoughts below in the Comment box! Press Release: Right Management MEDIA RELEASE originally posted on Scoop Tuesday 17th November 2009 Leadership Coaching still a ‘cottage industry’, white paper argues. Leadership coaching must be better aligned to business outcomes and more effectively measured if it is to mature beyond a cottage industry, according …
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