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Posted by Loreen Sherman on December 15, 2011 at 12:38 PM under
• 0 comments Loreen Sherman wishes you a very Happy New Year. This is the time to plan, prepare and praise the Lord for all our blessings. I hope for your continued happiness and prosperity in the upcoming year and I look forward to serving you then.
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Posted by Loreen Sherman on September 11, 2011 at 2:17 PM under
• 0 comments Ten years ago today many leaders had to make significant decisions. They
had to determine a plan of action that would affect many. Some lives were
saved, others lost. Managerial decision making is not always easy. For example,
in the case of 9/11 leaders were called on to take action from numerous
capacities.
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Posted by Jack Layton on August 22, 2011 at 6:06 PM under
• 0 comments Regardless of political agendas, the character of Jack Layton is an
example of courage and fortitude. His spirit was vibrant and is a shining
example of not quitting. When life is difficult those who lead face choices.
Jack Layton made the choice to lead with courage and optimism.
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Posted by Loreen Sherman on April 28, 2011 at 11:31 AM under
• 0 comments To Lead with Love and Happiness
Who:
Catherine, Elizabeth ‘Kate’ Middleton (born 9 January 1982) and the Prince
William of Wales here is my dedication.
Money
restraints prevent me from taking the physical trip overseas to England to be a
part of your very special day; however my heart can travel there in a moment of
time to bestow upon you the wishes that are contained within my heart.
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Posted by Loreen Sherman on February 11, 2011 at 5:23 PM under
• 0 comments Today is a remarkable day in history for the citizens of Egypt. They are
celebrating a day of victory as they watch President Mubarak resign. Here is an
interesting story about leadership. The office held by President Mubarak for 30
years was one of fear. He ruled the people unfairly and limited their freedoms.
His control was one of a dictator.
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Posted by Loreen Sherman on February 2, 2011 at 11:36 AM under
• 0 commentsHow to
Charge up a Speaker’s Activation
Energy for a Dynamite Marketing Platform
What is
activation energy? This term describes the potential energy that must be
overcome in order to get a reaction.
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Posted by Loreen Sherman on January 10, 2011 at 7:58 PM under
• 0 comments The reflected views of the employees within
organizations create a unique expression of how the work is done here. A system
of shared values, assumptions, beliefs and norms that members of an
organization agree with is defined as Organizational culture.
Three different cultures manifest themselves within organizations: visual,
espoused values and core values.
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Posted by Loreen Sherman on December 21, 2010 at 7:38 PM under
• 0 comments Thanks for visiting during this festive holiday season.
Wishing you the peace, joy and love for the season and throughout the
New Year. May the warmth and peace of the holidays be yours.
I’ll see you in the New Year!
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Posted by Loreen Sherman on December 13, 2010 at 8:31 PM under
• 0 comments A
transactional leadership focuses on interpersonal interactions between managers
and employees and the charismatic leader is defined as someone who transforms
employees to pursue organizational goals over self-interests.
A
leader motivates the followers to invest time, money and energy into a project.
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Posted by Loreen Sherman on December 6, 2010 at 5:17 PM under
• 0 comments Today’s managers have
authority over people and financial resources. The business environment in today’s
organizations are becoming more decentralized and employees have increasing
autonomy to define their roles, prioritize tasks, allocate time, monitor their
own work, and set their own objectives.
The new economy is information
based and this knowledge has allowed many of the new mindset to become empowered
to make these important choices.
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Posted by Loreen Sherman on November 30, 2010 at 3:40 PM under
• 0 comments Organizational leadership is not cut-and-dry. Many different
aspects influence the organization’s behavior and culture. Leadership
development must stress the importance of management functions and how the
environmental factors play an important role.
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Posted by Loreen Sherman on November 22, 2010 at 5:56 PM under
• 0 comments Healthy frozen foods are an example of a profitable, growing
industry with ample room for growth, diversification and specialization. What
happens if the market changes?
Losing market share is either due to competition or a
general decline of the frozen health food market.
Organizational Leadership requires
Innovation – How to solve the problem?
The business landscape is filled with families where both
parents work who don't have time to prepare fresh healthy meals.
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Posted by Loreen Sherman on November 15, 2010 at 10:48 AM under
• 0 comments Today’s
business landscape is highly paced, fast-tracked and indeed stressful.
Organizational leadership requirements are vastly different than a couple of
decades ago. More Gen Y is entering the workforce. Their work ethics and work
habits are changing the face of organization and with it the requirements for organizational
leadership. Today the value indicators of leadership are the skills of
authenticity and followership.
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Posted by Loreen Sherman on November 8, 2010 at 2:02 PM under
• 0 comments Successful people are committed to achieving the highest
standards in their field. Successful people strive for excellence; therefore
leaders should follow this example and make it a mission to be the very best possible.
Striving for excellence means reaching to attain the rank of the top 10% in the
specialty or business field. A number of successful people started at the
bottom 10%, and yet were able to reach the top 10%.
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Posted by Loreen Sherman on November 2, 2010 at 7:09 PM under
• 0 commentsLeadership Development:100% Responsible-Okay 97.9%
Successful people accept 100% (Okay 97.9%) responsibility
for what happens in their life. There are some factors that even successful
people have no control over. However, successful people refuse to make up
excuses, blame and criticize others, and complain about their life. If
successful people do not like what is happening with their life, they take
action and make changes.
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Posted by Loreen Sherman on October 25, 2010 at 8:55 PM under
• 0 comments Multi-cultural
organizations are more prevalent in today’s business environment with services
for new immigrants. Companies are becoming more concerned with community.
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Posted by Loreen Sherman on October 18, 2010 at 12:15 PM under
• 0 comments
Here is an important tip on leadership development:
How big of
a dream do you dream? Do you encompass the realities or do you consider the
possibilities? It never hurts to dream big. When I was on a stretcher unable to
walk or talk the gentle doctor looked down and asked, Loreen do you still want
to be an astronaut? Seemed impossible but I responded with hope – yes.
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Posted by Loreen Sherman on October 12, 2010 at 4:03 PM under
• 0 comments Files stack
up, paper reports are half-done, and follow-up to prospective clients is not
completed. This style of hit-and-miss scheduling leaves many executives and
professionals stressed, tired and worried. Too many unfinished projects lead to
a mess both physically and emotionally. Here are some simple A-B-C’s to help
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Posted by Loreen Sherman on October 5, 2010 at 1:15 PM under
• 0 comments Quick buy
now! Lowest cost ever!
Are these
not catchy pitches sure to make one want to cash in on the deal? But business
beware, using tactics to upsell to outrageous amounts can hurt your businesses’
credibility.
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Posted by Loreen Sherman on September 28, 2010 at 7:58 PM under
• 0 comments Strong
Business Planning to Magnify Your Action Plan
How effective your business plan is depends on how current
the information in the plan is. Does your plan reflect the current
status of your business? This one consideration will start you on the road to
recovery if your business plan has been curtailed.
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Posted by Loreen Sherman on September 26, 2010 at 6:00 PM under
• 0 comments Ten Excuses to Not Implement an Action Plan
Is your business
planning more like recording past business events rather than future projects?
Are your business next steps thought of on-the-spur resulting from your business environment? Did you know that caught-by-the-moment business planning
is ineffective and will end in disaster? Most businesses fail without proper
planning for the future.
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Posted by Loreen Sherman on September 20, 2010 at 8:43 PM under
• 0 commentsFive Preventative Tips to Protect Your Computer Files
IT education is not well known even though most
companies have at least one computer. As companies grow the computer systems
are integrated and the network is more complicated.
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Posted by Loreen Sherman on September 13, 2010 at 5:10 PM under
• 0 commentsPoorly Chosen Words Will Cause Plans to Fail
 The most important step in the actualization of a plan is to
determine how to state the idea to the decision maker.
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Posted by Loreen Sherman on September 7, 2010 at 9:24 AM under
• 0 commentsWords are Not Communication
Do you know
that words are not communication in and of themselves? Words are simply tools
to take ideas from one to another. Words are expressions of thought. One
understands and uses the words to help express the idea underneath the words.
Words are not communication.
Let’s look
at the development of words.
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Posted by Loreen Sherman on August 30, 2010 at 5:10 PM under
• 0 commentsWhat are the Seven Factors of Communication?
There are
seven pertinent factors for the flow of communication: (1) verbal; (2)
non-verbal; (3) cognitive; (4) reasonable; (5) creative; (6) message conveyed
and; (7) the final outcome or desire is achieved. Many communicators are
familiar with verbal communication. They talk on cell phones, promote
conferences and organize tele-seminars based on the current lingo of the day.
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Posted by Loreen Sherman on August 23, 2010 at 9:07 PM under
• 0 commentsTwo Ways to Identify Communication Problems
The Industrial Age that was the precursor
to the Information Age has left
many companies ill-equipped to communicate. Social media and professional media forums require training. The various new technologies like e-readers, ipads and chat were unknown in the Industrial Age. Does your company feel isolated and confused trying to keep up with this explosion of new communication
formats? Is your business one of the many that has not shifted fast enough leaving workers and personnel
struggling to keep up? The breakdown of communication is one barrier to productivity
in the workplace.
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Posted by Loreen Sherman on August 16, 2010 at 7:28 AM under
• 0 commentsMarket Creates New Complexities
The business world evolves as the market
and cultural world around it changes. For example, several areas have been identified that
require an interface from Industrial technology to reflect Information
platforms. This new market requires transformational leadership. Cultural
diversity, segmentation and isolation have led to complexities in the business
world such as chat lines, social media and forums. Organizational
leaders need to be equipped with this new media.
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Posted by Loreen Sherman on August 9, 2010 at 5:43 PM under
• 0 commentsBreakdown of Communication Decreases Productivity
Is the Communications Landscape a Barrier to Productivity?
Did you know that communication barriers lead to productivity problems for
many companies? In fact poor communication skills are one of the largest
reasons for the decreased productivity in the workplace. Today’s workforce has
an additional cause for the breakdown in communication. A new and prevalent
reason for today’s communication breakdown in the workplace is that the
behavior in the organization has been founded on the Industrial Age patterns.
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Posted by Loreen Sherman on August 2, 2010 at 6:34 PM under
• 0 commentsDateline to the Information Age
The Industrial Age was the precursor to the
Information Age. To define this better the following dateline is helpful.
Industrialism.
The age of agriculture, manufacturing, mining and
transport. Many solid organizations were formed in this era. Farming, mills and
railroads were primary business ventures. The invention of the printing press
marked the beginning of the Industrial Revolution. This lasted from the 18th
Century to the 19th Century.
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Posted by Loreen Sherman on July 28, 2010 at 6:00 PM under
• 0 commentsA Competitive Advantage
Do you think that the business environment
of today is like the business environment of the 1900’s? Obviously not, yet
most businesses are trained and supported in the Industrial age approach of
which founded their organizational structures.
Current
Business Training is Required for Established Businesses
Some
organizations are still based on technological specialization that created many
advancements and rapid economic growth.
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Posted by Loreen Sherman on July 27, 2010 at 6:00 PM under
• 0 commentsNew Market Shifts
The work day and the work week have been
re-organized in some companies as the market shifts. Flex hours and working
from home are being more normative than exceptions as the workers strive to
work in a changing environment.
The
Information Age of the 21st Century
Flexibility is required to incorporate new
market shifts and trends, which is one reason why the new working hours are
called flex-hours. Identifying the new requirements for workers arises from a
realization that the corporate culture is changing as society changes.
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Posted by Loreen Sherman on July 21, 2010 at 6:00 PM under
• 0 commentsFlexible Work Week
Historically, in
Canada the post-war children got up to go to work five days a week looking
forward to the weekends where they rested and especially enjoyed Sundays off.
Fridays were considered Party night and often Monday was referred to as blue
Monday. The return to work was not eagerly anticipated in many cases. So, how
was this work week established? Again, to accommodate the farmers who needed
time off from a physically demanding job; these farmers were given work hours
so that they could still tend their chores at home.
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Posted by Loreen Sherman on July 14, 2010 at 6:00 PM under
• 0 commentsSchedule of Farmers
The
Industrial Age required specialized goods and services congruent to its
agriculture, mining and transport needs.
Industrialization Establishes the Work
Day
Many
industrial products like aluminum, cement, copper, lead, steel and zinc are
produced in industrial nations. These translate into “consumer goods like
automobiles, tires, household appliances, electronics equipment, breakfast
cereals [and] cigarettes.”[1] Critics often claim that pollution and
other environmental concerns arise as spillover costs to the rapid increase in
technology as exchanges to the ecological system are threatened.
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Posted by Loreen Sherman on July 7, 2010 at 6:00 PM under
• 0 commentsPrivate Ownership
Identifying necessary requirements for business training requires an
understanding of the progression of Industrialism to the Information Age.
A Western
Perspective
In
Industrially advanced economies, the market system had several noteworthy
characteristics. During the Industrial age the resources were mostly privately
owned rather than owned by government. This private ownership gave capitalism
its name. Holding private property was a right.
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Posted by Loreen Sherman on July 5, 2010 at 6:00 PM under
• 0 commentsHi and Welcome
… to Loreen Sherman’s online
training and business instruction in blog format.
Category: Corporate Leadership Development
Purpose: The goal for
this blog post is to be as informative and innovative as possible. I welcome
new ideas, suggestions and thoughts. So, let’s engage in dialogue.
Content: Many of the blogs and the content will be related to current, critical and special business information with tips to help you succeed.
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