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Creating a Culture of Excellence (Part 2)
Last month I began an installment of the Essentials of Modern Leadership series by speaking about the importance of culture in the workplace. I鈥檒l now elaborate further with three concluding strategies that, as I鈥檝e found from experience, play key roles in creating a culture of excellence.
October 31, 2019Director's Corner, Leadership and Management
Core Principles of Business Process Improvement
The core principles of business process improvement (BPI) are not numbered, etched in stone, and universally accepted as the top 20 or 10 or five BPI commandments. There are, though, countless lists of rules or guidelines deemed most important. Using a sampling of those lists and a Venn diagram concept, we found six core principles of business process improvement.
October 22, 2019Process Improvement
What Does a Leader Look Like? Identifying Real Leadership Qualities
If you鈥檙e reading this post about leadership qualities, you already possess one of the key traits of a leader, which is introspection. Your curiosity about the topic indicates a self-awareness to reflect on your personality, choices, and motivations, and compare them to the ideal.
October 17, 2019Leadership and Management, Professional Development
Navigating the Generation Gap: How to Motivate Employees of All Ages
Whether you are a CEO, a manager, or a project leader, you need to cut through stereotypes, bridge the generation gap, and effectively work with people from different decades. It鈥檚 not as daunting as it sounds: The key to navigating the generation gap is understanding how to motivate employees of all ages.
October 11, 2019Leadership and Management
How to Communicate Better: A Guide for HR Professionals
Speaking at a conference, SHRM-Senior Certified Professional Jennifer Currence defined what she called the three components of communication: self-awareness, listening, and speaking. Her thoughts and a synopsis of a SHRM toolkit/treatise titled 鈥淢anaging Organizational Communication鈥� are the essence of our guide for HR professionals on how to communicate better.
October 8, 2019Human Resources
How to Choose the Right Business Process Improvement Methodology
Improving your competitive advantage is always your top business priority. One of the most effective ways to accomplish this is to focus on the quality of your organization鈥檚 processes.
September 30, 2019Process Improvement
Creating a Culture of Excellence (Part 1)
A successful leader must possess a guiding set of principles. Your essential values, consistently applied, will create a culture of excellence. Excellence, by anyone鈥檚 standards, is equal to success.
September 30, 2019Director's Corner, Leadership and Management
What You Can Expect as a Paralegal
You鈥檇 like to advance your career, and you think becoming a paralegal might be the way to do it. It鈥檚 a fast-growing field that offers challenging legal work for go-getters and problem-solvers like you 鈥� and the certification process is much faster than for a law degree.
September 11, 2019Paralegal
Top 5 Reasons You Should Earn a SHRM Certification
Training for and achieving a professional certification from the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) is an invaluable tool as you build or expand your human resources career.
September 10, 2019Human Resources
What You Need to Know About the New PMP Exam
Project management is as old as business, but its recognition as a discrete profession roughly coincides with the founding of PMI in 1969. PMI has spent half a century helping the business world define project management.
August 29, 2019Project Management
5 Reasons to Become a Project Manager
Your first informal role as a project manager can often happen organically on the job, when your boss notices your technical and organizational skills and asks you to run a project. Maybe you鈥檝e been successful coordinating a one-off assignment to manage a product launch or a sales conference.
August 27, 2019Project Management
Keeping Good Employees Takes Thought and Effort
Think of the excitement you felt when you made that perfect hire. There was the outstanding r茅sum茅, the impressive interview. You felt, almost immediately, that this individual is a perfect fit for the position, and you were right.
August 23, 2019Director's Corner, Human Resources, Leadership and Management