The Best Management Quote of the Day

"Until the person-job match connection is made, organizations will continue to under-fund proactive investments to ensure that the right people are filling jobs in their organizations, and to over-fund reactive investments in dealing with employee performance problems."

This quote comes from the article entitled: The Hidden Cost of Poor People Performance.

To read the entire article (though in 2004)....sadly...not that much has changed....go to this link: http://www.inc.com/articles/2004/12/karsh.html

The 2 Buck Challenge - A Human Behavior Experiment

What Would You Do For A Couple of Bucks?
The 2 Buck Challenge - A Human Behavior Experiment

I love working with human behavior - understanding what motivates people, particularly in the realm    of decision making, making changes, and a desire to improve one's life.

With that said, I'm conducting an experiment.  It's called The 2 Buck Challenge. Here's the challenge question...Would pay, fork over, invest (whatever word you'd like to put there) $2.00 to change a part of your life? Would you pay for a piece of information that has been tested to get a result that YOU genuinely want?


Click here to learn more: http://www.joanncorley.com/The_2_Buck_Challenge.html

The Cruelty of Manangement Training via Public Seminars - Huh?

I’m sure in reading this title, some of you may be thinking…wow, that’s a bit harsh! Well, so be it if it communicates a critical point that will help others.

I was conducting a management training seminar in the Carolinas a while back that dealt with unacceptable employee behavior. I had the opportunity to have a sidebar chat with one of the attendees regarding her unique challenges.

As she shared her story, such a sadness came over me as I realized that it would be very challenging for her to successfully implement what she was learning that day; in fact what her company had paid for her to learn.

Why?…upper level management and the company culture was not in place (at least from what she had observed) to support and encourage the change. In fact it was quite the opposite.

In her view, there was NO support for addressing the challenges and you could see the discouragement on her face. Part of her question to me was what could she do about the piece. You could see her desire to make a difference …to constructively address the problem. Yet I could see how tough it was going to be.

My question…why do companies send employees to trainings such as public seminars, when there is not the management support back at the office to implement what’s being learned. To me…that is cruel!…and very sad.

Even sadder?… many decision makers are not aware of the disconnect and the waste of money to them in not having the atmosphere in place to successfully leverage what they are paying for their employees to learn AND how hurtful, frustrating, and discouraging it is to the employee.

Back to the attendee…I encouraged her to have courage, to entertain the possibility she might have to set the example with her new found knowledge and be the leader in this context…leading by example and hopefully results. Positive outcomes…results speaks volumes!

Here’s a plea from someone who conducts public seminars, management trainings and teaches updated management concepts: for those of you who are responsible for training budgets and/or sending your staff to trainings (public seminars and workshops), please ask yourself this question, “What’s in place back at the office to help support the implementation of what my team members will be learning, so that the cost of the seminar will not go to waste…..AND they will not be discouraged from learning, growing and leading?”

And…question #2 – what are the intended messages that are being communicated to an employee when the support is not in place?

Management Training & Coaching - The 21st Century Way

November 12, 2010
Just Added: Mobile Coaching!
Subscribe to "My Portable Coach"
Currently in free beta format

Now no one can say I can't afford to learn and get help to develop my professional skills! Test it and tell me what you think!

Currently in beta, this is an effort to provide coaching at your finger tips.  How does it work?  2 times a week (that's it - not everyday) you will receive a strategically worded text that will be a how-to tip, an inspirational insight, a coaching question, or a power principle to apply to managing your career or developing your skills as a manager.

In the next few months, a link will be included that will lead to a Learning Page.  Each Learning Page will be a theme for a month, which will help and encourage you to focus on one area of knowledge for a cycle of 30 days.

My Portable Coach is not about random learning, but will provide continuity, continuous learning, reminders and well...coaching.  It's a serious attempt to combine 21st century technology with the fundamental principles of adult learning.  It's relevant, meaningful training and coaching all in one!  Welcome to 21st training!

Additionally, this supports the premise of my latest release - The 1% Edge.

SPECIAL NOTE: During the first 30 days of this new launch, there will be about 1 text a week to give a chance for subscribership to grow.  Because of that it's currently free.



Subscribe Here:  https://mobilizeus.com/COACHINGBITE

2RYGDVEXKMZ2

An Updated View of Workforce Readiness

If you are in the business of employee training and development, corporate training, or education and training then this is a MUST READ post.

According to the article associated with the link to follow, our incoming workforce will not be adequately equipped to deal with the needs of the 21 century workplace and economy. This is an alarming educational trend and business trend!

Here is the link - go here.

This information presents all sorts of potential challenges. Consider the following areas:
1. how will we hire differently?
2. how will we provide ongoing education and development of current employees that meet these needs?
3. what kind of learning will be offered?
4. what extra pressure and stresses will be put on managers?
5. how will that impact management trends?
6. how will company competition and profitability be effected?

Phew...and that is just off the top of my head. Bottom line, training and developing employees I suspect will be more enhanced, take on a greater role and will require more committed funding than ever before and where one use to consider employee training and development an option or necessary evil in the corporate budget, that will no longer be an option!

I recommend that you read the complete article and consider it's impact from where you sit.
If you'd like to talk it through with a training professional, don't hesitate to contact me via my site: www.joanncorley.com