Five Tips for Great PowerPoint Presentations

You might consider “great PowerPoint presentation” an oxymoron, but PowerPoint presentations can be an effective communication tool. Follow these five tips for great PowerPoint presentations:

Your PowerPoint slides are for your audience, not you. Don’t rely on your slides to remember everything you planned to say; you’ll lose your audience before [...]

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What Is Management?

Managers are people who do things right, while leaders are people who do the right thing.
– Warren Bennis

Though leadership and management are often used interchangeably, leadership is really about developing and fostering the organization’s vision, while management is really about achieving the vision. Even the most brilliant vision is meaningless without effective management.
But [...]

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What Is Leadership?

Leadership and management are often used interchangeably, but fundamentally, the two have distinct, although related, meanings. (Think cousins, not twins.) After all, we have thought leaders, not thought managers. We refer to our bosses as our managers, not our leaders; yet managers lead and manage their teams. What does it all really mean?
According [...]

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New Thoughts on Lewin’s Three-Stage Change Model

Kurt Lewin, a pioneer of social psychology, developed a three-stage model for change management based on his observations of group dynamics and organizational development.
Stage One: Unfreezing – Managers inform employees of problems and performance gaps and the need for change. This diagnosis stage is often driven by a change [...]

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Online Time Management Training

24 hours, 1,440 minutes, 86,400 seconds. Presumably you sleep, and hopefully you have some semblance of a social life and spend waking time with family and friends. A day really isn’t all that long, and the busier you are, the shorter it feels.
Before you can even consider how to manage your time [...]

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