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The 3 Crucial Factors Of Sustainable Staff Development

23. April 2010 Email This Post Email This Post Print This Post Print This Post

“Staff development is a major task of leaders.”
I guess this is one of the most popular sentences in management and leadership literature.

The advantage of this sentence is that you will receive a bright agreement when mentioning it in a round of executives.
“Yes, staff development is extremely important” or
“Staff development should take most of a [...]

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Brain Merging Deluxe

10. March 2010 Email This Post Email This Post Print This Post Print This Post

Big problems require great spirits.

What are the really difficult issues and challenges in your field or in your department that you are confronted with?
Probably they’re strategic issues or in other words very fundamental things.
Now, how do you deal with such issues?
Do you try to develop appropriate solutions on the q.t.?
Do you work out towards this [...]

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Posted in 03_Staff Development on Mar 10th, 2010, 20:06 by haukeborow  2 comments   

How To Bake The Tasty Cookies

5. March 2010 Email This Post Email This Post Print This Post Print This Post

Do you know this fine smell of self-baked cookies that passes through your house after these little friends have been lying in the oven for a while?

It is spreading this unique feeling of coziness and closeness which we all know so well and which we just can’t escape.
Children are standing right in front of the [...]

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Posted in 03_Motivation on Mar 5th, 2010, 17:30 by haukeborow  8 comments   

Effective Sequence Planning And Time Scheduling For Projects

28. January 2010 Email This Post Email This Post Print This Post Print This Post

In the previous articles you’ve learnt something about the nature of projects and the management of them.

I’ve told you that a project is always located in 3 dimensions: quality, resources and time.
The project structure plan tells you what has to be done in your project in form of work packages. It defines the quality which [...]

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How To Build A Project Structure Plan

21. January 2010 Email This Post Email This Post Print This Post Print This Post

The project structure plan is the most important plan for your project.

It is the basic document for the internal project communication in the project team because it is the basis for the project manager to assign work packages and to communicate them with the responsible team members.
This increases the transparency of your project tremendously because [...]

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Posted in 03_Project Management on Jan 21st, 2010, 20:35 by haukeborow  2 comments   

7 Basic Principles Of Effective Project Management

19. January 2010 Email This Post Email This Post Print This Post Print This Post

Projects
change the world we all live in. All great changes and achievements of our modern society were not thinkable without the definition of projects.

Just have a look at all the beautiful and fascinating buildings, bridges and churches you can visit when you travel into foreign countries. Modern architecture gives us many wonderful and impressive [...]

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Posted in 03_Project Management on Jan 19th, 2010, 21:14 by haukeborow  2 comments   

What Is A Project ?

8. January 2010 Email This Post Email This Post Print This Post Print This Post

Projects are wonderful! Making up a project means to become active. Many possibilities and challenges in companies or private households are discussed until most of them are simply dead.

To discuss, to argue and to think about certain endeavours surely makes sense. But this stadium should end at the moment you have an idea about if [...]

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Professional Working Methods

1. January 2010 Email This Post Email This Post Print This Post Print This Post

When talking about working methods it’s not so decisive to talk about how you use them but it is essential to discuss which methods and tools you choose.

Working methods support you to transform your potential and talent into measurable results. Using effective working methods is a crucial discipline for leaders who want to affect results [...]

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Posted in 03_Working Methods on Jan 1st, 2010, 19:38 by haukeborow  4 comments   

What Leaders Can Learn From Santa Claus

16. December 2009 Email This Post Email This Post Print This Post Print This Post

Do you believe in Santa Claus?
I guess this question may appear a little bit strange to you especially when finding it in a blog about holistic leadership.

But believe me, it isn’t really that strange.
Everybody knows Santa Claus and everybody seems to like him.
So why shouldn’t we discuss the personality of such a well-known and [...]

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Posted in 02_Attitudes&Perspectives on Dec 16th, 2009, 21:08 by haukeborow     

How To Get A Good Decision

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Most people don’t think about how they come to decisions.
That is due to the fact that most of our decisions are made subconsciously.
We make hundreds of decisions every day.

It starts in the morning quarreling with oneself whether to get up at 5 a.m. or not and it ends in the evening when setting the alarm [...]

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