Effective meetings strategy #2: Matching goals with questioning strategies

by marie | Nov 11, 2014 | Blog, Leadership and Management, Supervisory Smarts, Employer Best Practices

We’ve all been there…stuck in a meeting fighting hard to keep either our eyes open or to stop them from rolling. And, as comedian Dave Barry so aptly highlights in the quotation above, we might just be left feeling that our potential has somehow been...

Evaluating the effectiveness of diversity and inclusion efforts

by marie | Sep 8, 2014 | Blog, Leadership and Management, Supervisory Smarts, Intercultural Communication, Employer Best Practices

They say, “what you measure grows.” But before measuring begins, when you start paying attention to something, it’s importance in your thinking increases. Let’s say you want to buy a car for example. Suddenly you notice things about cars you never noticed before and...

5 planning strategies to build leadership from within

by marie | Aug 13, 2014 | Blog, Supervisory Smarts, Employer Best Practices, Leadership and Management

Internal leadership development is something many companies fall short on. Bruce Anderson from the International Institute of Directors and Managers states that barriers to leadership building from within stem from a lack of: Time to coach Accountability with regard...

5 Megatrends to rock your world – and mine

by marie | Jul 27, 2014 | Blog, Leadership and Management, Employer Best Practices

At the Manufacturing Leadership Executive Summit this year, Frost and Sullivan’s megatrends and disruptive technologies presentations had some particularly close to home themes for me. As a business owner working in industry managerial training, e-learning and...