By Elisabeth Goodman, 28th April 2018 I’ve just been reading booklet number 10: Conflict Management, in the “Building Blocks of Emotional Intelligence” by Daniel Goleman et al. The authors have some powerful insights on the benefits of conflict and how to address or facilitate it constructively, both as an individual participant, and as a team …
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By Elisabeth Goodman, 22nd March 2018 The 9th ‘building block’ or ‘primer’, in Daniel Goleman et al’s series for Emotional Intelligence is all about the coach and mentor role of leaders. The style of these primers is very discursive, with chapters from several experts in the field. I mapped out the key points that emerged …
By Elisabeth Goodman, 9th March 2018 My colleague, Liz Mercer, and I recently bought the whole set of Daniel Goleman et al’s twelve”Building Blocks of Emotional Intelligence” between us. The 70+ page booklet on “Influence” caught my attention as we have a course on Effective Influencing and Communication Skills with RiverRhee. We also have a section …
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Guest blog by Alison Proffitt – 30th January 2018 Editor’s comment: Many of the Biotech and Life Sciences organisations we work with are growing in size and investing a large amount of time and resource in their recruitment process, yet there is often a feeling that they are not doing it as effectively as they …
Tips for hiring the best people in rapidly growing Biotech and Life Science companies Read More »
By Elisabeth Goodman, 23rd January, 2018 I would not endorse eating this frog, but it’s a powerful metaphor adopted by Brian Tracy in “Eat that Frog!” for tackling the most difficult and least attractive tasks first, and for just getting on with it. The “21 great ways to stop procrastinating and get more done in …
The frog, the ninja and you – time and productivity Read More »
By Elisabeth Goodman, 8th January 2018 What is your company’s approach to training? Monika Hamori is a professor of human resources management at the IE Business School, IE University in Madrid. She has conducted a research study of more than 28,000 learners in 127 countries, supplemented by the use of surveys and interviews. Her findings, …
By Elisabeth Goodman, 15th November 2017 Competency frameworks have been very much in my mind at the moment as they are core to the recruitment and interview skills course that my RiverRhee Associate, Alison Proffitt and I recently delivered for a client as an in-house course. They are also an excellent foundation for discussions about …
By Elisabeth Goodman, 9th November 2017 Current approaches to management put emphasis on identifying and developing our strengths. And rightly so. Our individual strengths give us the opportunity to make significant contributions in our home and work lives. The diversity of strengths within a team contribute to the success of organisations. Personality tools such as …
Dealing with the dark side of our personalities! Read More »
By Elisabeth Goodman, 4th October 2017 Why tell stories at work? I first heard about the power of using stories at work, in the context of sharing knowledge and building learning and understanding, in the 1990s. David Snowden, who was then a Director at the IBM Institute for Knowledge Management, was a chief exponent of …
By Elisabeth Goodman, 28th July 2017 Motivation – a refresher Eight years ago, in July 2009, Dan Pink gave an impassioned TED talk on “The puzzle of motivation”. It was a rallying call to business to stop using a scientifically proven outmoded method for incentivising high performance – the “carrot and stick”, “if…then”, “extrinsic reward” …
