In this article we explore the dynamics of coaching a team of people rather than just one or two individuals. If you view an executive team in the same light as a sports team, it makes good sense to have a coach working with the whole team. When you coach at the team level you can create a seamless
Case study of Big Sky Credit Union’s use of the OAS to measure progress in their org values project
article discussing how alignment is a more comprehensive measure of business performance than traditional culture surveys
I pay a lot of attention to the way belief systems prevent us from solving some of the more important problems in the world today. By belief systems, I’m not talking about anything grandiose, but just the assumptions that are made, often unconsciously, about everyday matters. For instance, In a recent article in the Christian…
Chris Lonsdale was recently in Japan, picking up a DNAm for drawing. While there, he was interviewed for The Japan Times. To read the article, follow the link below. http://www.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?fl20060121a1.htm
A good article looking at the "war for talent" in the banking industry, and exploring how to hire the right sort of people for the role.
Reprinted from a Banking Today article written by Mark Powell
How do you develop as a wise, intuitive, ethical and creative Interface Designer? In this paper we present guidelines for effectively interfacing learner cognition that rapidly develops designers with a difference. We call it Integron Learning Design (ILD) (Gorayska and Lonsdale, 2000).
To enhance the process of learning and teaching at City University we have developed a new
instructional methodology that we have chosen to call Integron Teaching Methodology. This
methodology integrates a range of different techniques (e.g. accelerated learning methods;
experiential learning method
This is the slide show of a presentation given at the Asia Business Forum on April 18, 2005. This is a .pdf file. When you click the link, the file should download and open automatically (either in your browser, or directly in Acrobat Reader). Alternatively, you can right click and save as a file to…
There are times when any business can get into crisis. And there are many reasons for such a crisis, some outside your control and some unavoidable. However, when a crisis hits it’s important that a leader knows what to do.
This article explores, in a simple and direct way, how a leader needs to
You win or lose depending on the talent in your organisation. Attract and retain talented people, in a way that leads them to perform, and you win. The alternative is mediocrity and all that comes with it.
This article looks at defining mission critical talent, and then describes the process to tra
When you click on the link below, you will download a .pdf file to your computer. This will open with Adobe’s Acrobat reader.
Have you ever wondered why, when you are the same as you have always been, you start getting different reactions from people as you go up in an organization?
The Wrecking Ball effect explains in part what happens with seniority, and why it’s important for senior people to pay extra attention to t
Many people in a leadership position believe that they need to know everything in order to lead properly and maintain control in their business or organization. This, however, may be exactly the wrong way to think about leadership, especially in a knowledge based world.
An alternative idea is that