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What are an Organization's Environmental Responsibilities under CSR?
The Triple Bottom Line that I discussed in an earlier video suggests businesses focus on Profits, People, and Planet. So, what is the Corporate Social Responsibility towards our environment?
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The Complex Sale: 101
Complex Sales are, by nature… Complex. And that means this is a big topic. In the late 1990s, I went on a 2-day course, so this video is, necessarily, the 101 version of what has stuck with me.
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What are an Organization's Social Responsibilities under CSR?
The Triple Bottom Line that I discussed in an earlier video suggests businesses focus on Profits, People, and Planet. So, what is the Corporate Social Responsibility toward our society (people)?
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What are an Organization's Ethical Responsibilities under CSR?
Ethical responsibility is the part of corporate social responsibility that drives a business to act in a moral and fair manner. Companies can set their own standards or adopt external ethical goals. But what are an organization’s moral...
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ERP 101: What is Enterprise Resource Planning?
In this video, I want to answer the question, what is ERP: Enterprise Resource Planning?
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What is Mentoring? Why get a Mentor and Why be a Mentor? + Top Tips
In this video, I want to answer the question, what is Mentoring? And also why get a mentor and why become a mentor?
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What are Lean and Lean Thinking?
In this video, I want to answer the questions, what is Lean, and what is Lean Thinking?
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What is Leadership? and Why do We Need Leaders?
In this video, I answer two questions, to kick off our series on Leadership: what is leadership, and why do we need it?
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What is Servant Leadership?
Servant Leadership is one of my favorite concepts. For me it’s a no brainer. So, let me explain why.
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David McClelland and Three Motivational Needs - Content Theories of Motivation
For my money, David McClelland gave us one of the most useful models of motivation, for use in the workplace. McClelland identified three motivational needs. Each of these allows us to motivate different people to do the same task, by...
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Chris Argyris and the Immaturity-Maturity Model of Motivation: Treat People as Adults
Chris Argyris offers us a more sophisticated view of McGregor’s Theory X and Theory Y model of motivation. His conclusion is that we need to treat people as adults. Argyris put forward his ‘Immaturity-Maturity Theory’. This suggested...
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Basics of Motivation: Incentives - do they work?
One thing most people 'know' about motivation is the value of incentives. The problem is... Incentives don't always work. So, in this video, we'll look at when incentives do and do not work and understand why.
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Power at the Negotiating Table: Key Concepts in Negotiation
Everybody goes into a negotiation with power. The power to say yes, to say no, to move the negotiation forwards, or to frustrate progress. But where does this power come from?
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How to Handle Overload: When Time Management is Not Enough
What do you do when you objectively have too much to do in the time available? This is overload. We'll look at the techniques to use when you are overloaded.
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What is Strategic Time Management? ...and How?
‘People are our most valuable asset’ they say. But, in truth, you can replace them. But you can't replace time. When it’s gone, it’s gone forever. Strategic Time Management treats time as the strategic asset it really is.
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What are Morgan's 8 Organizational Metaphors? An Organization is Like a...
Sometimes the best way to understand something complicated and abstract is with a metaphor. Gareth Morgan suggested we can gain some good insights into the nature of organizations from 8 organizational metaphors.
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Organizations as Processes: Understanding an Organization as a Set of Processes
One way to understand the nature of an organization is as a process (the other is as a structure). In this video, we look at Organizations as Processes
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The Features of Organizations: What an Organization Needs
What does an organization need to have... The features of Organizations? Let's look at what organizations (almost) always need, if they are to work effectively.
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Teamwork: Protecting Your Team
Protecting your team is a part of your role as a leader. To create teamwork, you need to serve your team, so they can get on with working together, as a team. and defending them from the things that will get in their way is part of that...
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Why do we need Organizations? Structure vs Agility
Why do we need Organizations? The answer lies in the trade-off of Structure versus Agility.
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What are Edgar Schein's Two Organizational Cultures?
In this video, we look at two opposed cultures that Schein defined, to give us our first, and simplest, introduction to the many different organizational models available. Schein's two organizational cultures have either an authority...
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What are Charles Handy's Gods of Management?
In Charles Handy’s 1978 book, Gods of Management, he articulated four organizational cultures or models for how the organization works.
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What is Charles Handy's Shamrock Organization?
In his 1989 book, The Age of Unreason, Charles Handy looked forward to a new type of organization, the Shamrock Organization.
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What is the Matrix Organization Model?
Many large multi-national organizations eschew the simplicity of Charles Handy’s Federal Organization model. Instead, they favor the big, complex, and ugly approach that is the Matrix Model.