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Five Tips for Navigating the Matrix Organization

Many organizations today are team and/or project based and requires employees to collaborate across the organization to leverage and influence resources they do not control. The five tips for navigating the matrix organization are manage the dynamic, build your resiliency, empower yourself, be proactive and assertive, and design the effective norm and manager the exception.

Six Tips for Maximizing Personal and Professional Effectiveness

Often we artificially separate our personal effectiveness from our professional effectiveness. The six tips for maximizing these simultaneously are listening, branding, possibility, energy, authenticity, and thinking.

Five Essentials of Performance Management

The importance of an effective and efficient performance management system increases as organizations grow and become more complex. The five essential elements of an effective performance management system are strategic alignment, clearly define objectives, focus on results, enforce monitoring and timely feedback, and maintain accountability and consequences.

Five Crucial Challenges of Achieving and Sustaining Alignment Executive Summary

One of the biggest obstacles to the success of teams and organizations is achieving alignment. The five most significant challenges to achieving team and/or organizational alignment are attaining shared understanding of business and human dynamics, building and sustaining an environment of trust, gaining commitment, instituting accountability, and exercising oversight and providing timely feedback.

Six Factors That Impact Leadership Effectiveness

A major focus of organizations large and small is maximizing leadership effectiveness. The six key stages in maximizing leadership effectiveness are consciousness, alignment, reinvention, accountability, relationship management, and reflection.