Product Innovations

Part 2: It won’t come as a surprise that clear communication is vital to building relationships with project team members. But what does that mean? It encompasses a myriad of things when bringing people together to work on a project. It’s not assuming that the members of the project team want to be communicated with in...
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Part 1: In our business, like most others, working effectively with project teams is critical to our success. Today’s constantly changing marketplace is forcing teams to evolve while demanding higher levels of productivity and efficiency. The modern workforce is much more diverse now than it has been in years past, not just with ethnic or gender...
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Creating transparency is gaining recognition as a critical behavior in high-trust companies. According to PricewaterhouseCoopers, the “spirit of transparency” is the first key to restoring public trust. Is there a business consequence to a lack of transparency? I bet you can think of several examples but here’s a good one: Eckhard Pfeiffer, the former CEO of...
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The worst recession in three generations has wreaked havoc on our markets and the companies that operate within them. And our employees are living with fear and uncertainty about the economy, their jobs and their careers. More than ever, there is urgency around building and restoring trust – between departments, within teams, across suppliers, with...
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With its headquarters located in Tampa, Florida, the people of Blueline Simulations have been casting their gaze to the water. Here, it is mostly rocky and not sandy, but the water is blue and warm. A drive across town is marked by sightings of pelicans, and sometimes even a few dolphins. You see a...
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That’s actually the title of the lead story in The American Society for Training and Development’s (ASTD) 2010 daily conference news; a news flyer that is released during its International Conference. The writer was covering the keynote speaker, Daniel Pink’s message. According to Pink, author of Drive: What the Science of Motivation Can Teach You...
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Isn’t it interesting? The American Society for Training and Development’s (ASTD) International Conference was packed with sessions on virtual learning, social media, 3D, best practices for webinars and so on. I attended the conference, and while there, I received a press release about Ken Blanchard’s acquisition of the Trustworks Group. Yes, I did receive it...
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Turn on the TV or click to your favorite news website and it won’t take long to find a story about the decline of trust in organizations. Damaged trust is at the heart of economic turmoil, and millions of workers have felt the effects in painful and personal ways. The 2009 annual Edelman Trust Barometer...
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I recently listened to a dialog between Warren Bennis and Daniel Goleman on transparency.  The question they were reflecting upon was:  “Is Transparency Inevitable?” I thought it might be fun to blog about this topic so I share below some of the take-aways for me from their conversation (which by the way is on a...
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