Tag: leadership

Train Your Managers to Be Winning Coaches

By Heather Hunt Feb 20, 2014 Learning & Development

Updated: Feb 20, 2014

To recap the coaching training exercise: This exercise is intended for all supervisors. Its objective is to review basic information about coaching. Instruct trainees to complete the work sheet below. Then discuss the results as a group and answer any questions. 1. Briefly define “coaching.” __________________________________________________ __________________________________________________ 2. Identify three purposes of coaching. __________________________________________________ __________________________________________________ […]

Do You Train Managers to Be Winning Coaches?

By Heather Hunt Feb 19, 2014 Learning & Development

Updated: Feb 19, 2014

In sports, coaches develop and motivate players. They work hard to bring out the best in each player and then to unify all their players into a winning team. Coaching in the workplace has basically the same purpose and involves similar techniques. To develop a competent, motivated, and productive workforce, your supervisors must be good […]

Mind over matter: lessons on mental toughness from the Olympics

By Dan Oswald Feb 17, 2014 Oswald Letter

Updated: Jan 7, 2018

by Dan Oswald When I flipped on the television yesterday to check out the Olympics, I found myself watching the men’s Super-G Alpine skiing. By the time I had tuned in, the celebrated American skier Bode Miller was safely at the bottom of the slope and sitting in first place. This is believed to be […]

Working as a Team—Tough … but Essential

By Dan Oswald Feb 14, 2014 HR Management & Compliance

Updated: Feb 25, 2014

The other day my 19-year-old daughter told me, “It takes teamwork to make the dream work.” I’m sure she didn’t come up with that on her own, but it was new to me. Dan Oswald, CEO of BLR®, offered his thoughts on teamwork in a recent edition of The Oswald Letter. Teamwork is defined as […]

Recognizing the Olympians in your workplace

By Dan Oswald Feb 10, 2014 Oswald Letter

Updated: Jan 7, 2018

by Dan Oswald While watching the opening ceremonies of the 2014 Winter Olympics, I was struck by the many similarities between a country’s Olympic team and a company’s employees. It might seem odd to draw that particular comparison, but let me explain and see if you also notice the correlation between the two. At the […]

Getting your staff to work as a team is tough but essential

By Dan Oswald Jan 27, 2014 Oswald Letter

Updated: Jan 7, 2018

by Dan Oswald The other day my 19-year-old daughter told me, “It takes teamwork to make the dream work.” I’m sure she didn’t come up with that on her own, but it was new to me. Teamwork is defined as a “cooperative or coordinated effort on the part of a group of persons acting together […]

Train Employees to Lead Teams with Positive Actions

By Heather Hunt Jan 21, 2014 Talent

Updated: Jan 21, 2014

Kevin Sensenig, PhD, RODP, and global brand champion for Dale Carnegie & Associates (www.dalecarnegie.com ), Hauppauge, New York, works most often with HR professionals. His points, however, can be given to any employees whom you have identified as having leadership potential. Train these promising employees to be positive coaches and team leaders. Sensenig notes that […]

Do You Train Employees to Be Positive Team Leaders?

By Heather Hunt Jan 20, 2014 Talent

Updated: Jan 20, 2014

Negative behavior on the part of some team members may blossom during the tough times, says Kevin Sensenig, PhD, RODP, and global brand champion for Dale Carnegie & Associates (www.dalecarnegie.com ), Hauppauge, New York. “When people are uncertain or nervous, not knowing what may happen next [with the current national economic situation],” he says, “they […]

Lessons on life and leadership from Martin Luther King, Jr.

By Dan Oswald Jan 20, 2014 Oswald Letter

Updated: Jan 7, 2018

by Dan Oswald Today we celebrate the life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Inarguably, he accomplished much during his lifetime, and there certainly are lessons we can learn from his approach to life and leadership. King was a man who developed a followership that numbered in the hundreds of thousands—if not millions—made up of […]