Tag Archives: Business Leadership

15 Jun

Questions You Ask Your Coach

Many professionals have a Coach.  It isn’t a luxury; it isn’t an option.  Many professionals with forward-looking careers have a Coach.  Coaching is a relationship that takes you to a level of excellence, or as an old friend of mine used to say, “From your possibilities to your impossibilities.”  However, all Coaching Relationships are not created equal.  In simple language, some are more productive than others while frankly, some are nothing more than an excuse to have a conversation without results.  Coaching is more than a series of questions.  Coaching is more than the Coach asking you questions.  Coaching is about tangible results.

How do you ensure that the Coaching Relationship you have or are entering into is going to produce the best results for you?  What questions should you ask?

Read More →

01 Jun

Are Your Recruiting Efforts Just Like Everyone Else’s

Recruiting today’s workforce has challenges few have experienced before. Businesses claim they are doing all they can to recruit in these very competitive times.  All of them are doing the same.  Those who dare to be different can not only win the battle for talent today but also win the long term battle for talent.  It requires business leaders to get outside their comfort zones, open their minds and consider other methods with lasting effect.  In short, it requires new ways of thinking.  Recruiting is hard because you are doing the same thing as everyone else.

What more can you do?

Read More →

25 May

Bias is Killing Your Recruiting Efforts

Almost every business in the US is experiencing recruiting challenges.  We are turning down work because we’ve overworked our employees and they can do no more.  Many of us are still receiving applications from people but are lamenting that they aren’t good applicants.  As a result, we don’t have the workers we need to do the work.  One key reason for this is your biases.

How do biases apply to recruiting?

Read More →

18 May

Capacity – How Much Can Your Business Do?

Capacity.  In business, it is defined as “The maximum output that a business can produce in a given period with the available resources. “  In short, it tells us what we can do.  There is machine capacity, people capacity, and business capacity.  Businesses define themselves as at capacity, below or above capacity.  No matter the definition, no matter what you are describing, capacity ultimately is controlled by your workforce.  Yes, your people, the employees in your business or work unit drive your capacity.

How does that happen

Read More →

27 Apr

Technology Will Change Work and Your Business

Recently I wrote an article titled, The Future of Work – Are you Ready, where I discussed the impact of technology on jobs, the workplace and how work would be accomplished in the future.  An important statement in that article was “…nearly two-thirds of all jobs could have a significant part – at least 30% – of their activities automated by 2030.” and “ … about half of all work activities globally have the technical potential to be automated by adapting currently demonstrated technologies…”   In other words, rapid advances in technology will not only change how work is done; it will change jobs and change the skills needed to perform those jobs.  If that isn’t eye-opening enough for you consider a Dell Study that states “85% of the jobs that will be available in 2030 are not available today.”

What exactly does this mean to you?

Read More →

Pin It on Pinterest