Efficiency
Robbie Vorhaus on Making Changes to Be More Efficient
The small changes that can change your career.
March 11, 2011 / Podcast # 11-10
Robbie Vorhaus wants you to be a watchmaker, not a timekeeper. A timekeeper may always know what time it is, but if they look away from the clock for one moment, they’re not useful anymore. A watchmaker, however, can create a product that will do the job for him or her, and then go on vacation without losing money. The goal is to build skills and a team that make you necessary and still let you step away. Read more…
Bill Jensen on How to Hack Your Workplace
How to influence change without permission.
September 24, 2010 / Podcast # 10-39
Companies are not designed to help us get our work done. Often there’s an easier way of doing our work but approval processes are slow and ideas stagnate. It’s only a select group of people, “hackers” as Bill Jensen calls them, who rise up and force change with their own ideas and without permission. If used benevolently, the workarounds will become company-wide and increase the workers’ happiness and their free time. Read more…
Jim Kirkpatrick on Revamping Training to Increase its Business Impact
How to stay engaged and keep learning.
June 4, 2010 / Podcast # 10-23
Training can’t be a rote process; for the most effective results, job training needs to be customized to each specific audience. Sometimes it even needs to start backwards, focusing on the result first and then moving back to the process. That way training becomes streamlined, more effective, and costs less. In his new book, Training On Trial: How Workplace Learning Must Reinvent Itself To Remain Relevant, Jim Kirkpatrick explains how to continue the training process, constantly adapting the business model. Read more…
Michael Bungay Stanier on Great Work
When there's passion, the work turns from good to great.
May 7, 2010 / Podcast # 10-19
Work smart, not hard. Plenty of employees have heard that but how does it actually work? In his new book Do More Great Work, Michael Bungay Stanier offers fifteen different exercises that give practical advice for how to turn your results from good to great. Read more…
Nilofer Merchant on Real Collaboration
How collaboration can create a stronger workforce.
March 26, 2010 / Podcast # 10-13
Management gurus have always said “people matter.” But those same gurus still relegate strategy to an elite set of executives who focus on frameworks, long presentations, and hierarchical approaches. After many years of working with Apple, Adobe, HP, and many other companies, Nilofer Merchant discovered the best way to create a winning strategy, which she details in her book. “The New How: Creating Business Solutions Through Collaborative Strategy.” Read more…
