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Strategic Thinking or Tactical Thinking? What About Getting Something Done?
Strategic Thinking and Tactical Thinking The semantic and actual differences between strategic thinking and tactical thinking are discussed in thousands of websites, books and magazine articles. If you look at the overviews on search engines, you’d almost think one article had been copied 483,672 times. The essence of most of them is this: Strategic thinking is about what…
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Rah-Rah Meetings Are Often Nothing To Cheer About
The employees have their bagels and hot tea or coffee and they gather around the conference table for the weekly or monthly update meeting. After a few opening remarks the manager or supervisor says, “OK then! Let’s go around the table and share what we’re doing right now! Ava, you and your team are sure working hard…
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Take Someone Along
Take A Guest To Meetings If you participate in committees, groups, clubs or activities or attend organizational meetings that are appropriate and not confidential, consider inviting an employee or coworker along now and then–there can be many benefits for both of you. *Employees and coworkers can expand their views of the organization and your role in it. *It…
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Meetings — Ten Ways To Demonstrate Effectiveness
Almost all of us attend meetings at work–although we may not call all of them that because meetings do not necessarily involve sitting at a conference table. Think of a meeting as any time you gather with coworkers in a work setting. A quick huddle with coworkers or peers, related to a specific work situation. A…
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Take Employees To Meetings
Almost anyone at a supervisory, managerial or executive level can remember a time when going to a meeting with the boss–or in place of the boss–seemed interesting and exciting. Come on, you know you do! I recall being asked by my captain to attend a community meeting when he was busy. I was thrilled about it, hardly…