How to Get Aligned Employee Engagement
Hats off to Bruce Fern of Performance Connections International. In his recent study that interviewed 100 professionals across industries, 100% of the participants agreed that employees could be...
View ArticleFacilitators and Trainers Note: Confessions of Reluctant Participants
Though I’ve been facilitating problem-solving, strategy and training sessions for 20 years I’m still periodically baffled when I encounter certain reluctant participants. The first place I look for...
View ArticleLong Distance Delegation: Do’s & Don’ts
By Marla Rosner, Principal, InstillLeadership Managing a far-flung team is increasingly the norm these days. Though a daily affair, delegating from a distance has a unique set of pitfalls. How do you...
View ArticleBridging Strategy and Execution
By Marla Rosner, Principal, InstillLeadership “We spent a week off-site to formulate our strategic plan, and six months later, nobody’s using it!” Execution Pollution Whether you spent a week away with...
View ArticleNew Employee Orientation: Sleep, Weep or Reap?
By Marla Rosner, Principal, InstillLeadership New employee orientations seem a bit “ho-hum”? If so, you’re not alone in your thinking. Reviewing personnel policies and procedures is a bore for both...
View Article5 Tips for Growing Tech Managers
Today’s Wall Street Journal featured an excellent article, “Do Techies Make Good Leaders?” http://tiny.cc/piihp by Robert M. Fulmer and Byron Hanson both of Duke Corporate Education, an affiliate of...
View ArticleYounger Workers Push Digital Norms
By Marla Rosner , San Francisco Examiner.com, October 27th, 2010 5:31 pm PT Digital Natives are those born after 1980 according to John Palfrey and Urs Gasser, authors of “Born Digital; Understanding...
View ArticleOrienting Digital Natives at Work
Written by Marla Rosner, San Francisco Examiner.com, November 14, 2010 First there’s the challenge for new college grads to even find a job in this tough economy. Once the lucky ones do, there are some...
View ArticleManaging Digital Natives’ Technical Savvy
Written by Marla Rosner, San Francisco Examiner.com, November 23, 2010 Digital Natives, otherwise known as Millennials or Gen Y, are those who have grown up in the digital age. For them there was no...
View Article5 Planning Tips for Meetings in the Matrix
Complaints about meetings are familiar. You know the list: too long, unproductive, costly since they absorb employee time that could be spent cranking on projects, unfocused, etc. While ensuring...
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