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 By Gina Abudi, on March 22nd, 2011 It can damage the team’s ability to make decisions and be successful Groupthink occurs when members of a team want to get along and do not want any conflict amongst them. In groupthink, ideas initiated are accepted without fully testing their validity or viability. This is a potentially dangerous situation for teams as members [...] Print This Post
 By David Kasprzak, on February 22nd, 2011 I really despise sycophants. You see them everywhere. They’re at work, of course, currying favor with bosses and coworkers by heaping nothing but praise upon the less-than-deserving. They can be overt or subtle, but they are there. At best, people will state that these folks “never have anything bad to say” and consider them [...] Print This Post
By David Kasprzak, on January 5th, 2011 A Lesson in Working with People Once upon a time. I worked with a manager who had 2 employees: Employee A he absolutely could not work with, since employee A was a complainer. Employee A saw multiple problems in the status quo, and in the decisions of his management to overcome the status quo, [...] Print This Post
By Gina Abudi, on November 24th, 2009 According to Wikipedia, collaboration “is a recursive process where two or more people work together in an intersection of common goals by sharing knowledge, learning and building consensus.” When employees collaborate, they improve communication within the organization. Collaboration allows for different ideas from different people to generate a wide variety of knowledge and better [...] Print This Post
By Gina Abudi, on November 23rd, 2009 As defined by Wikipedia, facilitation “concerns itself with all the tasks needed to run a productive and impartial meeting.” Facilitation is key to ensure productive meetings and it takes someone skilled to be an effective facilitator. The facilitator’s role in meeting management includes, but is not limited to: Drafting the agenda (timed agenda) and [...] |
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