Category: Leadership & Management

Vaccine Distribution Plan: A Lesson in Operations Management

Vaccine distribution promises to be the silver bullet that stops the spread of Covid and ends the pandemic. But the distribution of Covid vaccines is just one step in a complex supply chain. Packaging, transporting, storing, and administering vaccines all represent stages of the process that create headaches at scale. The development of Covid vaccines…

Leadership Is A Process

Leadership is often thought of in terms of title, position, and responsibilities, but it’s much more than that! Leadership is a process. The most successful leaders within an organization do not have to be the individuals with “Chief” in their title. Effective leaders understand the importance of process-based leadership and can exist across all levels…

Upskilling: Exploring How and Where to Learn New Skills Quickly

Upskilling has become a deep fascination for much of the consulting and professional worlds. As the world and the workplace continue to change at a breakneck pace, more and more workers are using upskilling to advance their training/specialization, and to deepen their arsenal of professional tools. In this article we’ll look at what, exactly, upskilling…

Women in Leadership: Shattering the Glass Ceiling

Women in leadership is the tantalizing proposition of equity that has, for a century, seemed just around the corner. It's interesting to take an honest look at the events of the last hundred years. Multiple pandemics, a world repeatedly shattered by military conflict, the destruction of the living planet’s most important systems, and unprecedented income…

Time Management: How to Keep Employees Productive

Time management is perhaps one of the most researched, studied, and obsessed over concepts in all of management. Back when physical bookstores were more relevant, you could find entire sections devoted to time management. People travel the world to attend seminars with time management gurus. If you’re an aspiring or practicing manager, consultant, or business…

Performance Management: Managing Employee Performance

Any business owner will tell you about the immense difference between vision and reality. Performance management is how management works to achieve outcomes that match the vision as closely as possible. While performance management might sound like a specific niche of management, in reality, “management” as a whole is largely made up of performance management.…

Employee Engagement: Productivity KPI

Employee engagement has become increasingly emphasized in the landscape of modern business management. Yet there are still many organizations that aren’t focused on this profoundly important driver of productivity. Anyone who’s had experience in management will attest to the difficulties in maximizing the potential inherent within a company. Why is it that companies experience such…

Leadership Vision: Grab Yours Now

Leadership vision is what separates cohesive teams from scattered teams. Every new member you add to a team increases the complexity of the operation. Synchronizing the activities of many self-interested people is crucial to steering a business toward its objectives, but it is not easy. This is why leadership vision is essential. In this article,…

Forming Storming Norming Performing: Team Development

Forming storming norming performing is one of the most influential ideas in the study of team development. Its less catchy title is the Tuckman framework, which studies how groups develop and deepen. The heightened interest in team development is taking place not just in the academic and research communities.  The business world has also acknowledged…

Critical Path Method: Project Management Essentials

The critical path method is a project management tool that documents the many critical steps of a project and the longest period of time that is required to successfully complete it. The critical path method also identifies if a delay in any step of the project will impact the final project delivery date. What Is…