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3 tips to help you have a good feedback conversation

Halo Psych

Based on my own experience of working with hundreds of managers over the years, I’m pretty certain most are more afraid of having a tough conversation with a colleague than anything else! In fact, I went on my own journey with having challenging conversations when I was a line manager, getting wrong more often than right!

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Matrix Structures and Virtual Collaboration (Kates and Erickson, Handbook of High Performance Virtual Teams, 2008)

Kates Kesler

Chapter in The Handbook of High Performance Virtual Teams, 2008. At the same time, experience has demonstrated that it is most successful in organizations that already have a strong foundation of teamwork, joint accountability, and the management processes that support collaboration. Virtual Collaboration in a Matrix Organization.

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How to Survive the Perfect Anti-Discrimination Storm at Work

LSA Global

According to the EEOC, 82,792 charges were filed in 2007 and 95,402 in 2008, a 15% increase in just one year. Codes of Conduct As of the end of 2008, all federal contractors and subcontractors must have adopted codes of conduct and must train their employees on them. Claims of age discrimination went up 29%.

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Ominous Looking Picture in Healthcare and Education Jobs

MishTalk

Education and Health Services Employment Monthly Change in Thousands The chart appears as if there were several instances of negative numbers in 2003, but a download of the actual data shows the only other negative number in the entire series of data dating back to 1990 occurred in 2003-07-01. 2008-01-01 35.1 2008-02-01 28.0

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Consulting or Banking

Tom Spencer

This post provides you with a high level comparison of management consulting and investment banking. Management consultants assist organisations by providing advice to address specific problems and to improve organisational performance. Nature of the job. They do this by selling stocks and bonds to public investors.

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Consultant Ninja: Friedman Billings Ramsey and Tom Peters.

Consultant Ninja

Management Consultant | Excel Jockey | Slide Monkey | Corporate Insurgent | One-Eyed Man in the Valley of the Blind Mckinsey | Bain | BCG | Booz | Oliver Wyman. Flash Player 9 or higher is required to view the chart Click here to download Flash Player now There is a larger lesson here. Management Consulting. Consultant Ninja.

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How SMEs can welcome the decade of Organizational Culture

Asamby Consulting

Due to the ongoing efforts of governments to delay inflation and a recession since 2008, we are experiencing an overlap of one phase ending and a new phase beginning (see graphic 1). Early days of management theory: When appraisals were born The roots of performance management stem from the early 1900s.

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