December 2011
First birthday celebrations at the Café
It's now been a year since we launched our Learning Café and we're delighted to say a big THANK YOU for responding to our invitation to join us for a virtual coffee on a monthly basis.
We now have built a community of over 500 Learning Café consumers and we consider you as friends of our family. Once you've sat down with your coffee, more than 53% of you have hung around for a while and clicked on at least one link within the Café. In the year we've only had 22 find the coffee too bitter to take on board and hit the 'unsubscribe' button. We're sure if we had some smart marketing folk they would tell us these are some great results!
To those who are our Café Regulars, we really appreciate your consistency in coming back for more every month, for your enthusiastic feedback and the great conversations we've started…
We wish you all the best for the 'silly season' and look forward to sharing some of our new brews with you next year.
Please take a few minutes and join us for this month's virtual coffee at The Learning Cafe to:
- Indulge in double shots - new insights and ideas about business and learning
- People-watch - see what others are doing
- Pass comment or gossip - on current topics of interest
- Browse the magazines - and learn some new tricks of the trade
- Be inspired - by the thoughts and actions of others
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Leading by Walking About Whether the discussion involves global warming, renewable energy, or organic agriculture, everywhere environmental issues are at the forefront of debate. When the natural environment goes haywire, everyone living within it suffers. Likewise, when leaders lose control of their environment, everyone within the business undergoes harm. It's critical for leaders to stay up to date with environmental factors in order to protect a healthy and secure workplace.
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It's common for good performers on the factory floor to be promoted to a supervisory role. Unfortunately, the skills that make them productive in their former role don't always translate into people management skills. Nalco was finding that team leaders in its Hamilton aluminium joinery factory were struggling to delegate tasks and effectively manage workforce issues such as absenteeism. Even worse, their unfamiliarity with the performance management process was exposing Nalco to the risk of expensive personal grievance claims. Read more...
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 Making your Presentation work… better!
A long written article informing you how to deliver presentations simply wouldn't work. The medium doesn't match the message! So instead we have sourced a PowerPoint presentation that demonstrates how to create a powerful, and visually stimulating presentations that will make your message communicate (sourced from one of the world's best) Read more…
Developing Authentic Leaders
Research has shown that employee engagement is five times higher for those employees who believe their leaders are effective, compared to those who say they follow neutral or ineffective leaders. The search for effective leadership has prompted a fresh look at the state of leadership theory and development, bringing about a renewed interest in the concept of authentic leadership.
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Real Change Leaders
Change leaders might not be who you think they are. While most good managers try to keep things under control, real change leaders are determined to shake things up. So what are real change leaders like? They all share a determination to achieve better results through people and they share a common set of characteristics that help them further this aim.
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