Let’s say you have the training certificates and education as well as the experience just to get in the door. It’s frustrating seeing others without your work experience, walk in and take the same job you may have the experience and extra specific training for. So, why didn’t you get the job? We can’t really …
A warm thanks to all who’ve reached out since the start of this blog. I began this series of posts thinking of a couple of my readers who consider themselves relatively new to evaluation. But regardless of whether we’re newer, seasoned or somewhere in between, isn’t there always something new to learn? This is why …
Reputation management is key in sensitive situations Jill Kelley, the unofficial social liason to MacDill Air Force Base, is at the very center of the David Petraeus scandal. It was Kelley’s complaints to the FBI about threatening letters from Paula Broadwell that initially started the investigation into the situation, and now that the proverbial stuff …
And that’s a good thing !! Special events have evolved. Gone (for the most part) are the rubber chicken dinners — with a dais or a two-or-three-tier head table on stage, featuring the board or the event-committee-and-lead-sponsors sitting and eating dinner while the rest of the guests stare up at them. That model was fairly …
In an earlier life, I taught business ethics. (Most of my undergraduate college credits are in philosophy.) So here’s a very concise overview of the major “school”s of ethics that are often taught in business ethics programs. Immanuel Kant’s Categorical Imperative (1700s) Kant asserted that a belief is an ethical principle if, and only if, …
How much is too much? How do we know how to present a technical document?- Whether it is written for projects, systems, communication, procedures, applications, prototypes, education, training, user guide, specifications, or updates, etc., how do we know how to design the material for the target audience? There may already be a style guide, but …
Over the Thanksgiving holiday I had an interesting discussion with a mortgage lender and an economist about the 2008 banking industry collapse. Part of the discussion was around culpability and responsibility. In another conversation that week with a management consultant friend, we shared our frustration that institutions and systems are hard to change as organizational …
I was once told that the first six months in an organization are the most important. Do you agree? What advice would you give someone entering a new organization? Absolutely true! the first 6 months in a new job is your opportunity to learn, to be seen, to make a name for yourself and build …
Red Bull implemented one of the best marketing campaigns of the decade so far through utilising social media to create incredible engagement with their customers.
The question was asked, “Can anyone tell me what characteristics make a publication a good development tool? What can I do to begin to pull together the various publications so that they help garner parent, student and donor support and further the continued growth of the school?” First must come the understanding of what development …
