There is no doubt that in today’s fast changing work environments and markets, workforce development is crucial for both organizations and employees success and survival. This is reflected in the increased budgets and spending on employee’s development and training across government, federal and private organizations in the Middle East region. However, even with higher spending, […]
In today’s workplace, most of the information that we need to perform our roles on a day-to-day basis is unstructured and continuously changing. The information transferred through traditional training interventions, prevalent in most of our organizations, will often be out-of-date by the time we need to use it. In fact, research indicates that we learn […]
All managers, team leaders and supervisors know that the most difficult time consuming task they have is to motivate their staff. We all apply different motivation techniques and theories. Allow me to list the most common ones for those who don’t know them: 1-Job Design: A-Job Simplification. B-Job Enlargement. C-Job Rotation. D-Job Enrichment. 2-Rewards. 3-Employee […]
euphoria Consulting (euphcon) is a Dubai based strategic consulting firm specializing in organizational transformation and executive coaching. We asked the CEO and Organizational Change and Development Consultant Ashish Patel to discuss an Organisational Development Consultant Partnership which he implemented for Business Transformation in a company facing a crisis. Ashish Patel: As an Organizational Change and […]
Today, organizations are facing a myriad of challenges; high employee turnover rates, shortage of skilled resources, technological changes, and the ever increasing pressure of global competition. In this kind of business environment, how does an organization remain competitive and expand its business? The successful organizations recognize that its ability to produce results depends primarily on […]
The following tips helped me to become a successful Team Leader at Emirates Group: 1- Lead by example 2- Do not be a dictator 3- Praise in public, correct in private 4- Thank your team for a good job Leading a team is the backbone of any day-to-day operation. It’s vital to retail, sport teams […]
You’ve no doubt heard the expression a camel is a horse designed by a committee. It is meant to be critical of committees, but I think it gets at a deeper issue in today’s organizations and the manner in which some leaders operate in terms of setting objectives. They communicate goals in the same vague […]
While most of us believe that learning happens in the classroom, it does NOT. In fact, classroom or instructor-led learning’s only contribution to our learning is 10%! So where does most of learning take place? Around 70% of learning takes place on-the-job and 20% of learning takes place through activities before the training. Joint research […]
In your position as team leader the quality of the relationship among your team members is perhaps one of your biggest areas of focus. A unified and communicative team produces the best results, but it’s not always easy to develop a united team. People simply have different beliefs, backgrounds and social skills, all of which […]
“Our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world as being able to remake ourselves.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi A number of years ago, I came across a study carried out by the CIPD in 2009 that concluded, “Companies which do not train are 2.5 times more likely to go bankrupt, and […]
