What is Process Consultation? Suggested Pre-Reading Although process consultation is a unique style and approach to facilitation, the reader would benefit from first grasping the typical nature and tasks of facilitation, in general. See All About Facilitation Next understand the typical stages of group development. See Group Dynamics: Basic Nature of Groups and How They Develop Definitions …
A Virtual Team Toolkit The following links comprise a complete toolkit for building, leading and ensuring high-quality virtual teams. The toolkit is provided by Stevie Peterson and Velda Stohr, both of the Twin Cities in Minnesota. Note that each of the following links is to a section of the overall toolkit. (You will need the free …
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This topic is about the group-based, Action Learning process in which members work together in a group (a “set”) on real-world priorities (called a “problem” by many practitioners) primarily by sharing questions and taking actions between meetings. Members learn from the reflection during and between meetings, especially regarding the actions they took to address real-world …
The aim of this topic is to orient the reader to personal coaching, its many benefits and applications, different kinds of coaching and some coaching models, core skills needed by coaches, and additional resources about the profession and coaching. The topic will be useful to you whether you plan to use coaching informally on yourself, …
We Too Often Help in the Wrong Way When people are feeling emotional pain, they want help. But they don’t wantto feel like they are a problem that needs to be solved — that they are personwho needs to be fixed. Too often: Here is the Best Way When a person is feeling strong emotional …
Employee Morale Booster for Tough Times © Copyright Marcia Zidle It’s the small things everyday that can bring down employee morale and it’sthe small things everyday that can raise it as well. When money is tight and raises are non existent or when the heavy work loadseems never-ending, managers tend to forget the “basics” of management-that …
Descriptions of Mentoring There are many perspectives on the definition of mentoring, especially since the relatively recent popularity of personal and professional coaching. Traditionally, mentoring might have been described as the activities conducted by a person (the mentor) for another person (the mentee) in order to help that other person to do a job more effectively …
Training and development — or “learning and development training” as many refer to it now — is one of the most important aspects of our lives and our work. In our culture, we highly value learning. Yet, despite our having attended many years of schooling, many of us have no idea how to design an …
What is Delegating? How Is It Different than Work Directing? © Copyright Carter McNamara, MBA, PhD Delegating is a critical skill for supervisors at any level. Delegating involves working with an employee to establish goals, granting them sufficient authority and responsibility to achieve the goals, often giving them 1) substantial freedom in deciding how the goals …
Power is Not a Bad Word © Copyright Marcia Zidle The concept of power often evokes negative impressions. For example, referring to the use of power can infer that people are being dominated, manipulated or coerced. However, similar to the concept of conflict, power almost always exists in organizations. Recognizing and managing it can be very …
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