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The Corporate Training Challenge - Click To Read Article
- Published in CONCHIUS Newsletter 1 March, 2011. There are three fundamental demands on all corporate training and corporate education programs to create high performance in the workplace. The three training demands describe the purpose of all corporate training and directly influence all training design. Corporate trainers need to know and always strive to meet these demands.

How to Deal With Emotional Employees - Click To Read Article
- Published in 'Engaging the 80's generation' - CONCHIUS 1 June, 2010. Many managers in China are concerned with the 80’s generation lack of self-control, often describing them as “too emotional” and not treating each other with respect. One of the main reasons for this is that being from the single-child generation; the 80’s generation have little experience handling emotions and set-backs. Employees who become very emotional will often bring out emotional responses from their managers. Being a successful manager, you must be able to control these situations when they occur. There are 3 basic rules for handling difficult people in general: 1. Be assertive 2. Keep calm, and 3. Use non-confrontational feedback

Managing in China Without Coaching - Click To Read Article
- Published by CONCHIUS in Shanghai Star Business Journal 31 March, 2008. In most Western countries, leaders are used to working in an environment where the employees are highly participating in meetings and contributing their opinions and experiences to the decision making process. A Western employee feels comfortable to argue for their beliefs and to share opinions in meetings with superiors. Furthermore, a manager in the West is not necessarily assumed to be an expert in his field or industry. On the contrary, he is supposed to utilize the knowledge in his team in decisions and projects. The Western managers are therefore used to lead highly interactive teams relying heavily on two-way communication. When a team achieves strong synergy, he can and will step down. The team becomes creative and manage it-self.

Matrix Organization - Possible in China? - Click To Read Article
- Published by CONCHIUS in China Daily 9 June, 2009. In general, we have observed that international companies that choose to use a matrix organization in China struggle to get their organizations up to speed for a much longer period than companies that use a functional structure. A matrix organization has no clear hierarchical structure and defined responsibilities as a functional organization has. A matrix organization can take different approaches when dividing responsibilities and one of the most common approaches is project orientation.

How to use affirmations to find meaning and move faster 1(2) - Click To Read Article
Affirmations do not only create motivation, alignment and discipline. They can also create focus, speed and meaning to all actions in your life. Have you noticed that affirmations do not work like most self-help books say? It does not really help just sitting and thinking about something. It does not bring you closer to your result or becoming what you want to be. Let's discuss affirmations for a moment to try and understand what really makes them work. But before we start, let me share something that Gandhi said into this discussion: "Praying is not for the sick and the old."

Examples of Good Positive Affirmations - Click To Read Article
Sometimes it may be difficult to create your first affirmation. If you do not know what an affirmation is or how to use them, feel free to read my other articles on the topic. Here are some good examples to get you started:

To be or not to be, that is the question - Click To Read Article
Have you ever heard about Affirmations? Athletes call them visualizations, Priests call them prayers and Buddhist monks call them meditation on a topic. So, what am I saying here exactly, what has praying got to do with affirmations and visualizations? Focused meditation, praying, visualizations, affirmations are according to my experience all part of the same concept. They are all a part of getting ready to become what you want to be or get ready to achieve what you want to achieve. However, if you don't get the energy and inspiration to get out of your couch in front of the TV and go out into the real world to MAKE IT HAPPEN - you are just wasting your time.

How to use affirmations to find meaning and move faster 2(2) - Click To Read Article
Affirmations are not only a creator of motivation, alignment and discipline. They also create focus, speed and meaning to all actions in our life. Have you noticed that affirmations do not work like most self-help books say? Let us continue exploring what an affirmation needs to entail to be able to give us the benefits we so often hear they can bring.

Shall we create leaders in all positions? - Click To Read Article
There are many management and leadership styles and personalities described in writing and even more practiced every day around the world. To find our own management style is important since people will only follow and trust a person leading from his true personality. Managers pretending to be something they are not, end up pushing their employees instead of being followed. The word leadership is today confused and is commonly used to describe all levels of managerial duties. A company can successfully train staff to become good company managers. From these good managers some will develop into and become great company leaders. This last step cannot be trained - only facilitated.

Performance coaching in the workplace - Click To Read Article
To create lasting performance change it is necessary to first understand the positive and negative influence that a person's personal behaviors has on their execution and what impact these have on their ability to achieve success. Only when we fully understand a person's behavioral patterns and create positive self-managing coaching strategies can we assist a person to create lasting performance change.





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