Archive for June, 2008

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New Management Training from Voluntary Action Wakefield District
By Colin Harrison
Please find below information about a new course we are running for VAWD to help Managers ensure their ICT needs are being properly and efficiently managed. This is a NON-TECHNICAL course. It is to help managers know the sort of …
Yorkshire and Humber ICT Champion [...]

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Required Reading For New Managers

The following books are a must read for new managers who want to succeed:
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NY Times Business Best Sellers - Hardcover June 2008

 
Here are the Top 5 on the list for June 2008. To see the complete list (and to see a great choice at #15) follow this link.
 
At number 15 this month is a great read from Marshall Goldsmith called What Got You Here Won’t Get You There – How Successful People Become Even More Successful! I [...]

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Management Training In The News

It ain’t what you change, it’s the way that you do it
guardian.co.uk - UK
Strikingly, just one of the four (admittedly maverick) chief executives present had any kind of management training - which is hardly comforting news for …
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FROM THE FAR EAST: Kenya is ripe and gearing up for a [...]

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Integrity

 
A weird thing happened to a friend of mine recently (let’s call my friend Sue). Her company is one of the three largest customers of one of their providers. The provider, we’ll call them Widgets, Inc. had spent thousands of dollars entertaining Sue and some of her coworkers over the last couple of years. During [...]

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Ask The Manager

Ask The Manager.
 
Go ahead, ask him. Are you afraid? Is it possible you’ll be humiliated? Brow-beaten? Demoted?
 
Guess what? You’ve got the poster-child of managers. If your manager was a leader, you not only wouldn’t be afraid to ask him questions, you’d probably already have the answer.
 
True leaders check their egos at the door [...]

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