By Elisabeth Goodman, 16th February 2016 It’s performance review and appraisal time It’s that time of year again: performance appraisals were either completed just before the end of 2015, or are in full swing. Objectives are being set for the year ahead. Managers and those being managed may be feeling ‘stressed’ by the challenge of …
By Elisabeth Goodman, 29th January 2016 APM events are a great opportunity for developing our professional knowledge I led a seminar this week for the Yorkshire and North Lincolnshire Branch members, as a member of the committee of the APM Enabling Change SIG and also as an independent change practitioner. It was apparent from the level of …
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By Elisabeth Goodman, 13th December 2015 Additional insights on team temperature checks It’s been three years since I wrote my last blog on team development and team temperature checks, and I have since published The Effective Team’s High Performance Workbook, and also used the principles and approaches with project and operational teams. My adapted version …
Enhancing team effectiveness through temperature checks or diagnostics – a second look Read More »
By Elisabeth Goodman, 8th November 2015 The Kano model is traditionally used as a ‘Voice of the Customer’ Lean Sigma tool I had the pleasure of co-presenting a seminar with Carl Halford recently, for the APM (Association for Project Management) Thames Valley Branch, on behalf of the Enabling Change SIG. The full set of slides and the …
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By Elisabeth Goodman, 4th October 2015 Meet Diane and Tom Diane and Tom are two colleagues who have been working together for some years now. Their latest project is to make a new kind of widget. Diane enjoys a good debate. She loves having new challenges to explore, opportunities to think ‘outside the box’, to break …
Is it psychobabble? How better understanding can lead to better collaboration Read More »
By Elisabeth Goodman, 29th August, 2015 Why learn to draw? I’m a Francophile: I read French novels, my current favourites being Fred Vargas’s series featuring the detective Adamsberg. I spend my summer holidays in the Languedoc in the South of France, soaking up the sunshine, delicious fruit and vegetables, dramatic landscapes and ad hoc conversations …
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By Elisabeth Goodman, 4th July 2015 Consistent messages about value and knowledge facilitation at CILIP’s 2015 conference John Riddell and I attended Day 1 of CILIP’s 2015 conference in Liverpool to lead a master class on how to add value to your organisation as a ‘knowledge facilitator’. It turned out that not only was the …
By Elisabeth Goodman, 10th June 2015 This is the third in my series of “The Effective Team’s ” workbooks and it will be out shortly. THE EFFECTIVE TEAM’S operational excellence WORKBOOK Elisabeth Goodman (author), Nathaniel Spain (illustrator), 2015 – ISBN 978-0-9926323-7-3 This third book in the series focuses on how to achieve operational excellence. Here is the description from the back …
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By Elisabeth Goodman, 21st May 2015 The Ideas Centre – a great resource for creative thinking I recently had the opportunity to attend one of Dave Hall’s workshops from The Ideas Centre. Dave regularly holds off-site and in-house workshops where he introduces delegates to principles and tools to stimulate their creative thinking, and so enables …
By Elisabeth Goodman, 30th April, 2015 Our host, Patrick Farrant from Taylor Vinters, opened yesterday’s proceedings at the One Nucleus Network Meeting in Cambridge on Managing Change with this quote from Richard Branson: “A company that stands still will soon be forgotten” A show of hands from the floor confirmed that those present were almost unanimously …
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