Meetings are real management tools both at work and private: neighborhood meetings, fractional meetings, family meetings, meetings of condominium, business meetings, parent meetings, etc. .
It is not simple to organize an effective meeting and obviously it can’t be improvised. Here are 9 simple steps to organize and lead a useful and productive meeting . Tips and tricks to get the best results from your meetings.
We all make mistakes but do not always understand them, so we continue to commit them.
The discipline of interaction MAN – MACHINE, that also studies the human factors at the origin of the errors and the strategies to prevent or reduce the effects, can help us to better understand the mistakes we make.
What is and haw can be used the PDCA method?
A simple and concise explanation of how to implement and apply the PDCA to solve problems and activate the continuous improvement.
The organizational model which focuses on the flexibility is better than the fragmented one of lean production?
Changing markets is generating a different way to produce and manage companies.
A company has a competitive advantage if it does not just have people with the necessary skills to deal with the immediate but it also has the resources to face tomorrow, that is if it has people willing to get involved, to change, flexible people, curious and with the desire to grow.
In this way the company will be ready to deal with the changes when they arrive..
The theories of Dr. W. Edwards Deming, known also for the PDCA method or Deming wheel, even if published in 1986 still have application and very interesting developments and the importance of its concepts remain unchanged. We must learn to work within a system and none of us should act in order to gain advantages but we have to contribute to the entire system, with a Win-Win.
Many human behaviors are not the result of logical and rational considerations, but they are often the result of experiences lived during childhood, adolescence and life.
Know and recognize some simple mechanisms that are the basis of social behaviors allows to have good and lasting relationships.
The knowledge of social styles is mainly used in techniques of sales and trading, but it is also very useful to improve interactions with colleagues, family members and friends.
At the basis of a better relational skill there is the knowledge of how a person behaves normally.
The ability to communicate adapting to the various stakeholders permits to build productive relationships.
We can live our lives with inner moods of frustration, resignation and fear, while to others it may seem like an happy life, full of opportunities and occasions.
On the contrary, we can live our lives with enthusiasm, we can consider it a life full of opportunities and potential, while to others it is a normal life.
Our good or bad feeling compared to an event does not arise from the event itself but it is due to the meaning we attach according to our schemes.
Everything is a matter of perception. Our brain is not able to distinguish from a real life experience and an imagined one.
Taking advantage of this mechanism it is possible to create in our minds imaginary situations that help us to reprogram our brains..
Today more than ever it is necessary to improve our relationships and communication processes within organizations and society, to pay attention to the values of the people and their communication processes.
People who improve in professional life also improve in private life.
The behavior is always governed by criteria of usefulness, by implementing the correct one it is possible to achieve a goal.
Behind the behavior there is a positive intention that leads to a goal.
This is the essence of communication.
NLP provides tools and strategies useful to those who want to improve their performance and want to live better the situations and the everyday life, enhancing the capabilities that allow to achieve the goals and overcoming the limitations that hold us back.
If you want to get rid of an unwelcome behaviour or a vice like smoking, nail biting, always touching hair, putting fingers in your nose, eating whatever you can find in the cupboard or if you have trouble speaking in front of an audience, or you have difficulty in sustaining an argument with your boss, or relating with colleagues, you can use the technique of SWISH.
One the tools of NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming), it is a technique that just in 7 minutes for 7 days allows you to get rid of your vices and replace a negative behaviour with a positive one.
A guide to implementation and management of improvement projects, based on problem solving techniques.
How to fill in the form of an improvement project.
The improvement regarding the quality of a product, service, process or ones’s own life, is a process that takes place gradually, using appropriate tools.
One of the most effective and simplest tool is the FORM named “IMPROVEMENT PROJECT” which can be downloaded here.
The project must always be related to a problem whose solution has been scheduled and it has to be tackled by analyzing the initial data, giving weight to the important factors, ignoring the many unimportant data and talking only with known facts.