Content about Planning

February 28, 2012
Tips to Re-engage Your Team

Almost everyone in the workplace has been “doing more with less” for a long time. Yet productivity has risen 2.3 percent annually during these tough times as fewer employees accomplish miracles by working more hours and taking on bigger workloads. Is it possible to get higher productivity without burning people out?

By Carl Eidson, Ph.D., Vice President, Business Development, Wilson Learning

February 27, 2012
New Article: The Right Choice

A person is the result of all his choices, both the right and the wrong ones. With a right choice, a person develops, matures, actualizes, and grows. A wrong choice is detrimental to growth. A person can make right and wrong choices, and in the course of a lifetime, knowingly and unknowingly, he makes both.

By Darryl S. Doane; Rose D. Sloat; and David S. Doane, Ph.D.

A critical component of my focus may be the right choice. We once heard a story of a farmer who had an old mule. One day, the farmer is out working and hears a distressful wailing that sounds as if something terrible has happened.

February 27, 2012
The Right Choice

A person is the result of all his choices, both the right and the wrong ones. With a right choice, a person develops, matures, actualizes, and grows. A wrong choice is detrimental to growth. A person can make right and wrong choices, and in the course of a lifetime, knowingly and unknowingly, he makes both.

By Darryl S. Doane; Rose D. Sloat; and David S. Doane, Ph.D.

A critical component of my focus may be the right choice. We once heard a story of a farmer who had an old mule. One day, the farmer is out working and hears a distressful wailing that sounds as if something terrible has happened.

August 19, 2011
Tell Me Where It Hurts… Prescription for an Effective Incentive

Achieving goals and producing results is possible through incentives, and it doesn’t have to hurt. In fact, it’s a proven remedy. Companies that invest in an effective incentive program use it as a business tool to achieve uncommon goals—good preventive medicine.

By Debbie Szafran, Business Development Manager, Sutton & Associates

“Tell me where it hurts.” Sound familiar? This is usually the first question we hear from the doctor when we are not feeling well. In order for the doctor to determine the cause, we must answer some questions so the best treatment can be prescribed.

July 12, 2011
How to Set Goals

Goal setting and strategic planning are key to an organization’s success. People do not take long car trips without a road map. It is hard to achieve success in 2011 if you don’t know where you were in 2010 and to set standards for the coming year.

By Hank Moore, Corporate Strategist

The start of each new year offers business the opportunity to re-evaluate the past year and set goals for the next. While intentions are noble, businesses usually fall into old ruts because they do not take the time to plan.

To avoid the high cost of doing nothing, I pose these strategic questions to ask companies:

July 1, 2011
Align Your Actions with Your Ultimate Life Goals

Many of us are so busy living day-to-day, bouncing from one urgent issue to the next, that we have lost focus on our ultimate destination. Far too many of us are allowing other people and events to dictate our priorities, our life goals, and the life path we take. Here is a set of practical steps you can take to realign your actions with your ultimate goals.

By J. H. Hyun

Apple founder Steve Jobs, in his commencement address to Stanford University in 2005, made the following statement, which pretty much explained why he has been so successful in his life:

June 22, 2011
How Are You Managing the Productivity Influencers?

Much of the work we do, we do in isolation. To-do lists, project folders, e-mails, and meetings, it’s all a part of our regular workday. We manage our habits and routines, change our context, and we tap into our network to get things done. As you consider the next project you’re about to take on (or, if you’re far along one right now with room to go and room to grow), consider maximizing the three influencers to your productivity and workplace performance.

By Jason W. Womack, MEd, MA

Much of the work we do, we do in isolation. To-do lists, project folders, e-mails, and meetings, it’s all a part of our regular workday. We manage our habits and routines, change our context, and we tap into our network to get things done. As you consider the next project you’re about to take on (or, if you’re far along one right now with room to go and room to grow), consider maximizing the three influencers to your productivity and workplace performance.

June 6, 2011
Last Word: A Worthwhile Destination

When life becomes bogged down in analytic thinking, piecemeal and either/or thinking, we lose any far-reaching vision or goals beyond making current problems disappear. This shortsighted approach hinders us with its many unintended negative consequences. In Systems Thinking, the whole is primary and the parts are secondary. Systems Thinking approaches problems proactively and holistically.

By Stephen Haines

With Systems Thinking as your “thinking guide,” your journey through work and life will be more clear, simple, and quick. Systems, like ourselves, are made up of a set of components that work together for the overall objectives of the whole. We are all living, human systems and so are our teams, organizations, communities, and societies.

April 27, 2011
Moving Along the Pathway to Success

 In “Develop the Keys to Successful Living, Lydia Anti shows how to develop your abilities, talents, and skills while looking at some of your daily practices, which might include habits that could affect you on your pathway to success.

By Lydia Anti

In life there are two categories of people: the dreamers and the achievers. Dreamers dream how they will one day be successful, but they never take the necessary steps to make their dreams become a reality. Achievers, on the other hand, make an effort to look for the right people who can make their dreams come true. They take the necessary steps to achieve their dreams by seeking and gathering information in the right places to enable their dreams to flourish. Achievers become successful people; they get things done, and in doing so, they make things happen.

September 3, 2010
Task Lists Help Get Things Done

The notion of a task list could seem somewhat juvenile, but it is important to consider in terms of getting things done. If the “to-do” is written down in front of you, as a constant reminder of what needs to be accomplished, then you’ll eventually get tired of seeing it or be motivated to complete it.

By Jason L. James Jr.