By Elisabeth Goodman, 16th July 2018 If we don’t know what is expected of us, it can be hard to deliver it! No matter how informal the management practices may be in your organisation, there will come a point when someone will query what it is that you are there to do and whether you …
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By Elisabeth Goodman, 14th July 2018 Collaborative working is on the rise – at the cost of individual productivity Speaking from experience This will not be news to people who are continuously wrestling against the demands of their e-mails, meetings, phone calls and interruptions from colleagues. Matrix working, multi-tasking on projects and interacting with colleagues, …
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By Elisabeth Goodman, 6th July 2018 One of the challenges we have at work is the expectation that we not only get on with, but achieve our best outcomes with people that we might not necessarily like! When delegates on our RiverRhee training courses ask me what they can do about that, I suggest that …
By Elisabeth Goodman, 1st July 2018 I’m picking my way, as the mood takes me, through Daniel Goleman et al’s twelve “Building Blocks of Emotional Intelligence”. My latest read is “2. Emotional Self-Control”. Each of these little booklets (or primers) has little nuggets of insights which I frequently find helpful for myself, as well as …
By Elisabeth Goodman, 3rd June 2018 I’ve written a few blogs on the characteristics of high performance teams and how to evaluate them and summarised them in this one on my RiverRhee website (http://riverrhee.com/blog/temperature-checks-or-diagnostics-high-performance-teams). Daniel Goleman et al’s “Teamwork: a primer”, number 11, in his “Building blocks of emotional intelligence” series, provides some additional helpful …
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 …
Conflict is “the lifeblood of high performing organisations” Read More »
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 …
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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, 9th September 2017 The nature of “multi-teaming” in project management Many of the organisations that I work with manage projects as the essence of their way of working. The complexity of this approach is compounded in two ways: Operating a matrix model of management – where individuals have a line manager who …
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By Elisabeth Goodman, 4th September 2017 According to Sadun, Bloom and Van Reenen, writing in the Sept-Oct 2017 issue of Harvard Business Review, a disproportionate amount of emphasis is put on the competitive advantage of strategic planning, to the detriment of operational excellence. What is operational excellence? Their definition of operational excellence, or good management …
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