Have you heard the story of the American consultant and the Mexican fisherman?

A prominent American consultant, with an MBA from Harvard, was standing on the pier of a small coastal Mexican village when a small fishing boat docked. Inside the boat were several large yellow fin tuna a lone fisherman had caught. The American complimented the Mexican on the quality of his fish and asked how long it took to catch them.

The Mexican replied, "Only a little while."

The American asked, "Why don’t you stay out longer and catch more fish?"

"It's enough to support my family. I’m happy."

The American asked, "What do you do with the rest of your time?"

"I sleep late, fish a little, play with my children and take siesta with my wife, Maria. Every evening I stroll into the village, sip wine and play guitar with my amigos. I have a full and busy life, senor."

The American scoffed, "I am a Harvard MBA and could help you.

Praise to the human being is what sunshine and rain are to the flower

The value of praise has been acknowledged by many. Mark Twain said, "I can live for two months on a good compliment." John Masefield said, "Once in a century a man may be ruined or made insufferable by praise. But surely once a minute something generous dies for want of it."

Praise can have its pitfalls. In communicating praise effectively, four conditions should be met:

There are many problems that can kill a training session. Here are ten of them:

Few participants. Employees do not want to attend training

2- Those who are forced to attend bring with them the attitude of a prisoner.

3- Worn-out, burnt-out training professionals with no passion for facilitating great learning.

Presentations are taking a more central role in companies today. An excellent presentation can get you a job, an accelerated career path, a promotion, more visibility in a company, and more company profitability with increased customers. Yet despite the large number of PowerPoint presentations people give at work, not everyone is happy with quality and impact of their own presentations. In a new survey by Wilder and Bajaj, only 22 percent of respondents said they are "very satisfied" that their presentations convey the messages they intend to send.

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Do you know the purpose of your job and how it impacts your organization? Do you know what your organization is up to? Do you understand its business strategy and what it’s trying to achieve in the short and long runs? If not, don’t feel so bad. Neither do employees in about half of all American and international organizations. Almost half of companies have failed to effectively explain to employees the purpose of their jobs and the mission and strategy of their businesses, according to a recent survey by Right Management Consultants and the International Association of Business Communicators (IABC) Research Foundation.

According to the report, Best Practices in Employee Communication: A Study of Global Challenges and Approaches, 48 percent of 472 organizations surveyed worldwide said their management has not effectively communicated their business strategies to employees and engaged them in living it in their daily jobs. As a result, only about one-third—37 percent— of organizations reported that their employees are effectively aligned to the missions and visions of their businesses.

The great advantage of coaching as a developmental process is that it provides the opportunity for one- on-one training, guiding, instructing, observing, modeling, evaluating performance, and providing corrective action. All of this can be done on the job or even by phone. It occurs through regular sessions as the person is performing and applying the principles and ideas discussed in the coaching sessions, with immediate feedback from the coach. At work, coaching can be provided by a consultant, a training professional specializing in coaching, or the person’s own supervisor if versed in coaching techniques and equipped with its tools.

Every Monday morning ask yourself, “What great things did I communicate last week?” This will help you focus on consciously thinking of great things to communicate to your team, your colleagues, your direct reports, and your boss.

These great things could be new initiatives to improve things in the workplace, new ideas you want to propose, new skills you learned and want others to learn, creative ways of thinking and acting you want to impart to others, or stories of colleagues who went above the beyond the call of duty to help others or get things done.

One of the rooms in the new house we purchased had a small window. My wife asked me if I could enlarge it to get more light. The window measured 2 feet wide and 2 feet high. I took the saw and cut out some of the wall surrounding the window and put in a new, larger window that let in more light, twice as much as before. After finishing the work, I measured the new window and found that it still measured 2 feet wide and 2 feet high.

How was this possible?

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Have you ever had a boss who was so bad that the situation was harmful to you both mentally and physically?

In one of my early jobs, a project manager who was my superior but not my direct manager, apparently saw his role as merely to criticize everything I did, in front of my colleagues. He was not mean-spirited. He just didn’t know any better. I don’t think he took any training to become a good leader or manager. For about four years, I don’t recall him ever giving me a compliment. I used to dread seeing him coming to my desk, because I knew I was going to hear a criticism from him for something or another. It started to affect me physically.

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If you ever doubted your capacity for making significant impact on your work, your organization, or even your world, just examine the impact that Rosa Parks had left on the world, with one simple, courageous act. She did not have special skills that no body else possessed. She did not necessarily know better than others. She did not have better education, or connections, or wealth. She was as simple and powerless as they come. Yet it turned out that she was not powerless at all. It turned out that she, a simple individual, had all the power anyone can ever dream of having. That power is available to you too. It’s inside you, just looking for your decision to release it.

How effective are your presentations? Do people seem captured by your words, data, and graphics? Do they look at you and your slides with intense interest? Do they come to you after the presentation commending you and asking for more on the subject? Perhaps that level of presentation success happens only once in a long while. People say that most presentations are boring and ineffective. How can you make yours more interesting and influential?

Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look what they can do when they stick together. " -V. M. Kelly Just because people happen to work together in one department does not mean they make a team. They may be merely a group. Groups seldom achieve great things. Just imagine if a football team consisted of people who did not compensate for each other's weaknesses, did not have a common strategy known to everyone, and did not really want to play together. You can easily predict the results they would get. Many groups have learned to become teams that produced breakthrough results.

The best description I read recently that illustrates the concept of corporate culture is in this two paragraphs from an article in Fast Company magazine by Margaret Heffernan:

"The most gorgeous office I ever had was on the 40th floor of a glass tower overlooking Boston Harbor. Through the huge window, you could watch boats come in and planes take off. But even the most senior people there bickered like children. And I'll never forget the evening when we waited past 10 p.m. to get sign off on a document. I didn't mind much, but my colleague eventually confessed that it was his daughter's birthday. He stayed at work for what turned out to be two minutes of face time."

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How, then, do we deal fairly and firmly with under- performing employees? The secret is to give effective feedback on a regular basis, link that feedback to a 6-12 month coaching plan, link individual coaching plans to your company's performance review process (if you have one), and, if the situation

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