Managing Change: Strategic Planning Moves from Meetings to Mindsets
Managing Change: Strategic Planning Moves from Meetings to Mindsets Change is the only constant in life (and even more so in business). Forecasting change and constructing actionable plans to address new situations and needs is at the core of strategic planning. Ironically, organizations are finding that the function of predicting and reacting to change […]
Business Acumen Signs Line the HR Road
Rear View: Business Acumen Signs Line the HR Road By Rocky White, CEO, The SyN Learning Institute “In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield,” quotes Warren Buffet. From my driver’s seat, the rear view has been filled with headlines proclaiming the importance of business acumen for sometime now. […]
The Name Game: New Titles for Administrative Assistants
The Name Game: New Titles for Administrative Assistants By Rocky White, CEO, The SyN Learning Institute Since the term “secretary” went out of favor in the 1970s, organizations have been trying to find the right job title to describe an increasingly expansive role. Most widely used now is “administrative assistant,” but in today’s high-tech and […]
The Bleeding Edge: Top Trends in Talent Management
The Bleeding Edge: Top Trends in Talent Management By Rocky White, CEO, The SyN Learning Institute Companies invested more than three billion dollars in talent assessment in 2014, which is pretty solid evidence that hiring the right people remains one of the most important human resource functions out there. If people are a company’s […]
SyN Build a Leadership Program (objectives and skill sets)
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Improving Communication: What Would Henry Ford Do?
Improving Communication: What Would Henry Ford Do? By Rocky White, CEO, The SyN Learning Institute “Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs,” quoted Henry Ford. He was speaking about his theories of mass production and went on to prove his point and change the world by breaking down the complex […]
Is That Your Phone Ringing?
Is That Your Phone Ringing? This past New Year’s Eve, Pope Francis called a small convent of five Carmelite nuns in Lucena, Spain. Instead of getting one of the nuns on the phone, he got an answering machine and had to leave a voice-mail message. Here is his message: “What are the nuns doing that […]
How To Get Support For Your Ideas
How To Get Support For Your Ideas Most of us think we’re right – most all of the time. We also think we have great ideas and know better ways to do things (especially if someone else is the one who has to execute the details). But, the truth is, there are many times when […]