by Roelf | Apr 3, 2022 | Business, Soft (People) Skills, Managing, Leading, Older-Life-Long-Learner Posts
Planning and strategy meetings call upon the meeting chair to ‘manage the process = how the participants work together’ and ‘contribute to the content – what the participants are working on. This guide helps them do...
by Roelf | Apr 3, 2022 | Business, Soft (People) Skills, Managing, Leading, Older-Life-Long-Learner Posts
People spend a lot of time in meetings at work. Most of the time they complain that meeting time is wasted time. It does not need to be with just a little pre-meeting planning.
by Roelf | Apr 2, 2022 | Business, Soft (People) Skills, Managing, Leading, Older-Life-Long-Learner Posts
Consensus is the gold standard for many democratically oriented group facilitators. Facilitating it takes an awareness of the underlying group psychological dynamics I approach doing so in a way that uses visual cues to promote the necessary psychological dissociation...
by Roelf | Apr 2, 2022 | Business, Soft (People) Skills, Managing, Leading, Older-Life-Long-Learner Posts
I have worked in organizations for decades. Much of my career was either as a professional ‘doer’ or as a manager | executive fixing organizational problems. I came to 4 core conclusions about organizational life as a...
by RoelfW | Jul 12, 2018 | Business, Soft (People) Skills, Managing, Leading, Older-Life-Long-Learner Posts, Society and Social Dynamics
If interpersonal behavior on-the-job does not change as a result of training, the money spent on it is wasted. Most of the money spent on organizations on Interpersonal or soft skill training is therefore wasted. Very little interpersonal behavior training leads to...
by RoelfW | Jul 3, 2018 | Business, Soft (People) Skills, Managing, Leading, E-Learning and Education, Older-Life-Long-Learner Posts
“The Surprising Power of Questions” appeared in the May-June issue of Harvard Business Review. Many people commented on this article on LInked In and on the Internet in general, stressing how important this skill is to the conduct of business, and to the...