December 2004 Edition www.TeamBuildersPlus.com
         

Organizational Climate Surveys
by Merrick Rosenberg, MBA

If you don’t know where you’re going, you’ll probably end up right where you are. And, if you don’t know where you are, then where does that leave you? While managers may have a strong sense of their organization’s strategic direction...

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Basics in Internal Organizational Communications
by
Carter McNamara, MBA, PhD

Most experts on organizations, management and leadership assert that effective communications is the foundation for effectiveness in any type of organization. They assert there can't be too much communication. Some leaders misinterpret communications to be the same as...
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Do You Make These 10 Management Mistakes?
by
Chris Anderson

As a busy executive, you face some extremely difficult challenges like creating and dominating new markets or finding and keeping the best people. But then, like many executives, do you find yourself spending too much time solving everyday problems (that only you can solve, right?), which prevent you from...

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Profile of the Month:
Work Expectations Profile®

All disappointment is a result of our expectations not being met. A recent study found that almost one-third of employees surveyed expect to leave their current organization within the year. While turnover can't be stopped, it can be reduced. In many cases, people leave their organizations because...

Recommended Reading:
Good to Great

by 
Jim Collins

Jim Collins begins this book with a startling and counterintuitive claim: "Good is the enemy of great." We've become so conditioned to think of performance as something that develops along evolutionary lines -- from poor to good to outstanding -- that it takes a minute to grasp the notion that competence can actually...

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Upcoming events:
 
Why We Click with Some,
and Clank with Others

February 11, 2005
 
 
Adapt your behaviors to create more positive relations with those around you.
 
   
     
 
Creating a Powerful 360-Degree Feedback Process
March 11, 2005
 
 
Learn how to implement a powerful and positive 360 process to get results.
 
   
     
 
Next Generation Leadership
April 8, 2005
 
 
Discover how organizations need to redefine leadership in today's changing environment.
 
   
     

By the numbers:
 

The Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates that U.S. companies lose $3 billion a year to the effects of negative attitudes and behaviors at work.

 
     
 
Words of Wisdom:

"Spending time and energy trying to “motivate” people is a waste of time. The real question is not, “How do we motivate our people?” If you have the right people they will be self-motivated. The key is to not de-motivate them."
- Jim Collins, Good to Great

 
   
 
   
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