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Situational
Leadership: Balance of Leadership Style And
Readiness (E)
by
Laurus Nobilis
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What is
the proper balance between leadership style and
readiness of employee?
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reality, every combination of readiness and
leadership style is possible. Still the most
effective leadership style is when leadership
style level corresponds to the readiness level.
For example if the employee is new in the company
he may be motivated to learn and advance in his
position, but he does not have the knowledge... |
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Nov 2009 |
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Situational
Leadership: Employee Readiness ( Maturity ) (E)
by
Laurus Nobilis
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What is
the employee readiness ( maturity )? What is the
relation of employee readiness with situational
leadership?
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readiness is also described as maturity. Within
the context of Situational Leadership,
readiness it is
described as ability and motivation of employee
toward a given task. Readiness is the level of
motivation and capability to accomplish the given
task... |
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Nov 2009 |
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Situational
Leadership: Leadership Style (E)
by
Laurus Nobilis
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What is
the leadership style? What is the relation of leadership
style and situational leadership?
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on late 40's publication of Ohio state university,
the wide accepted model of describing of leaders
behavior is based on two dimension: relation
toward task and relation toward employee. The
leadership style depends on current situation
and individual... |
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Nov 2009 |
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Situational
Leadership: Blake And Mouton Managerial Grid (E)
by
Laurus Nobilis
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What is
the Blake and Mouton managerial grid? What is the effect of
Blake and Mouton managerial grid toward situational leadership?
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| Manager's
network is wide accepted model for describing of
leaders style of leadership, and their effect on
followers. Blake and Mouton created the managerial
grid. The managerial grid is consisted of two
dimensions: concern about business and concern about
people... |
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Posted:
Nov 2009 |
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Situational
Leadership: The Theory (E)
by
Laurus Nobilis
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What is
the situational leadership? What is the
relationship of attitude, behavior and readiness
to situational leadership?
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the past several decades people from the
management were involved into the quest for the
"best" leadership style. However, The
different researches have shown that there is no
universal leadership style that can be unique for
all purposes. The successful manager is the one
who can adjust his behavior in order to fulfill
the demands of specific situation... |
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Posted:
Nov 2009 |
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What is
the role of feedback? Who can give the feedback?
How to give and receive feedback?
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Feedback is the essential part of performance
management. The feedback helps employees to
maximize their performance while performing daily
tasks. It helps them to raise their awareness of
their strength and areas for improvement. Feedback
helps employees to identify actions that required
to be taken in order to improve their performance... |
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Sep 2009 |
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What is
the Individual Development Plan? What are the main
activities of individual development plan?
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Development Plan ( IDP ) is formal document that
identifies an individual’s learning and development
goals. The manager and employee jointly develop the
Individual Development Plan. That plan contains
trainings, education and development activities ( formal
and informal ) related to competences needed to meet the
goals of Individual Development Plan... |
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Posted:
Aug 2009 |
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What is
performance management? What is the role of
objective setting and performance review within
performance management?
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| Performance
is making the things to be done right. Performance is
the personal output of every individual within the
company. The overall business result depends of
aggregated performance outputs of all employees.
Therefore, the care for the optimal performance output
from every employee is the job of every manager... |
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Posted:
Aug 2009 |
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What is the
difference between leadership and management? What
are the primary responsibilities of leadership?
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management requires application of different management
skills and methods. Leadership and management are
frequently used terms that reflecting a skills necessary
for business management. So what is the similarities and
differences between these to terms?. |
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Posted:
Aug 2009 |
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What
is the delegation and when it can be used? Why
managers sometimes avoid delegation?
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| Delegation
is management style where the certain task is
given to subordinate. Prerequisite for this is
that the subordinate is competent and that there
is a certain level of control of activity.
Delegation is not the loading of subordinates with
work, but simply distribution of tasks based on
complexity of task and utilization of employees... |
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Posted:
Jul 2009 |
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What
are the benefits of outsourcing services? What are
the rules that should be defined when negotiating outsourcing
services?
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services or externally contracted services can be
defined as assigning a job to somebody that is not
employee of your company. There are several
justifications for outsourcing services; lack of
expertise, lack of manpower for certain task, seasonal
tasks, activity out of primary business, cost optimization,
avoiding of "dirty" jobs,... |
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Posted:
Jul 2009 |
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What is the Root Cause Analysis? What is
the Ishikawa Fishbone Diagram? How to use a Fishbone
Diagram in Performance management?
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The Root Cause Analysis or Fishbone Diagram
is the method of KPI result analysis. For every under performing
KPI there are usually more than one cause. The Fishbone
Diagram can be used in order to identify causes of the
event.... |
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Posted:
Nov 2008 |
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What
is the purpose of the contract? What are the main
elements of contract? Do you need a legal advisor
for contract design?
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| During
any process or activity there is usually more than
one party. In case that there are
more parties in process, they interact between
each other. During this interaction there is
exchange of service, product, raw material,
assets, money, consulting or anything else that
represent value for parties involves.... |
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Posted:
Nov 2008 |
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Conflict
Management
and Resolution (I)
by
Laurus Nobilis
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What
is the Conflict and why it becomes? What are
results of the conflict? How to respond to the
conflict?
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is the result of clashes between incompatible
attitudes, principles or goals. Its impact can be
positive or negative. The cause of the conflict
can be anything that makes some activity. Parties
can conflict about the goal of the activity, about
means necessary to achieve goal, about values and
morale of the goal, about facts and conclusion, or
even a style of reaching the goal... |
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Posted:
Nov 2008 |
Modified:
Nov 2008 |
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What
is the goal of effective Time Management? How to
prioritize Tasks? How to plan Tasks in Time?
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do we need to manage a Time? Although term Time
might sound like
something
that is unlimited and free, since everybody can
have it, whether someone is rich or poor, young or
old, and having different occupation. But in
reality, time is resource as anything else... |
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Posted:
Jul 2008 |
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Kaizen – Continuous Process
Improvement
(E)
by
Laurus Nobilis
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What is the Kaizen?
What is the precondition for successful Kaizen?
What are the biggest obstacles for Kaizen?
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is said that at one Toyota factory there are million
suggestions received from employees every year. So the
question is: How the management of the Company can
handle so many suggestions? The answer is simple: they
do not handle these suggestions... |
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Posted:
Mar 2008 |
Modified:
Nov 2008 |
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Business
Performance Measurement (E)
by
Laurus Nobilis
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How
do you track performance? What are Tracking tools?
What reporting system should you use? Who should
have access to reports?
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measurement
means observing the execution of targeted goal in
specific timeframe on regular basis. Such measurement
enable proper information to the top management, it gives
control over business process, represents early warning
system, meaning that through active control it enables
the system to be proactive instead of reactive... |
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Posted:
Nov 2007 |
Modified:
Jun 2008 |
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What
is the Performance Review Meeting? What is the Route Cause
Analysis? What is the Performance Review Meetings Blueprint?
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| After
defining the process from transformation of Strategy to
team goals, defining the customers, formulizing the KBI
and setting the Target, establishing the monitoring of
activity development, it is time to set the control and
action planning system... |
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Posted:
Nov 2007 |
Modified:
Nov 2008 |
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Key
Performance Indicators - KPIs (E)
by
Laurus Nobilis
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How
do you assign responsibility for result? What is
the Key Business Indicator? What are definitions
of KPI? What is the Route Cause Analysis?
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the team has identified his internal/external clients,
identified what is their job and formulised the Team
Mission ( way of doing job ), it is time to employ the
team, to give him a task and to measure them and
evaluate... |
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Posted:
Nov 2007 |
Modified:
Nov 2008 |
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Strategy Alignment 1 – Team Mission Statement (E)
by
Laurus Nobilis
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What
is a team Mission? Who is the Customer? Who is
Supplier? How does Supplier Customer Relationship
Work?
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Team Mission Statement starts with a
question: Who
are
your Customers? Internal and external. The
team has the position of Supplier of product or
Service to their customers. Of course the same
team can be Supplier to one team or customer, but
at same time can be a Customer of another Team or
external Supplier... |
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Posted:
Nov 2007 |
Modified:
Nov 2008 |
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About Business Performance Management System (E)
by
Laurus Nobilis
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How
do you transfer your Vision into your Strategy?
How do you transfer your Strategy into Objectives?
How do you assign Responsibility for Result?
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organization, whether profit or non-profit, has it's own
Vision, meaning a destination place or state where an
organization wants to be. To be able to achieve a Vision
destination, an organization has to conduct it's Mission
that will bring them to their Vision. In order to
conduct their Mission every
organisation
has to have developed Strategy that will enable
organisation to conduct Mission that will lead them o
their destination – a Vision...
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Nov 2007 |
Modified:
Nov 2008 |
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