Archive for the ‘Delegation’ Category

IBM Human Capital Survey

Monday, January 26th, 2009

IBM interviewed over 400 HR executives at organizations from 40 countries to find out how they were addressing key workforce challenges. Highlighted are key areas of focus that require the immediate attention of not just the HR function, but senior executives across the organization. Here are the top four:

Leadership

The report highlights how addressing these key focus areas can help transform your workforce and take its performance to the next level.

link to IBM PDF

How Middle Managers are Key to Company Success

Wednesday, January 7th, 2009

In today’s hierarchal organization, strategic intent flows from the top, while tactical implementation is carried out at the bottom. In the middle of the flow are middle managers: first- second- and third tier supervisors, managers and senior managers who are mandated to proactively deliver the planned strategy’s goals.

The challenge is that the bulk of their energy is spent tactically (and often) reactively responding to pressures from customers, subordinates, peers and their boss.

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