It’s About Time to End the Stone Age of Management

Do you have to fill in performance appraisals once or twice a year in your workplace? Does this form filling process feel meaningful to you? Do the forms have any connection to your daily work? According to research, man is happiest when he collaborates with other people and pursues meaningful goals. The best way to encourage him for better performance is to give him positive feedback on his actions often enough.

Managers Should Play a Bigger Role in Workplace Learning

Almost all organizations are ready to invest in employee training and if they aren’t, employees will certainly demand training. The expenses, mostly course fees, trips, accommodation and lost billable hours, will pay themselves back with increased employee satisfaction and more productive work. Therefore it’s strange that only a few organizations measure what has been learned and how it is applied to work. Organizations rarely manage learning in an active manner.

Why Habits Matter?

American business reporter and author Charles Duhigg published his bestseller book The Power of Habit a couple of years ago. The book’s main conclusion is that habits guide both our working lives and our personal lives more than we can even imagine. When our brains turn on a behavior model that has become a habit, we repeat the familiar routines compulsively.

The Secret to Success?

The fifth Nordic Business ForumRoad to Success took place last week and the theme this year was Forward. The first day was filled with inspiring speakers, like author and management researcher Jim Collins, the CEO of KONE Matti Alahuhta, and Arnold Schwarzenegger, the 38th Governator of California, who is of course best known for his movies. In their presentations, the gentlemen discussed about the reasons behind success.

Repetition Is the Mother of Learning

When we’re putting my teachings into practice at my trainings, many people tend to ask for advice on things I just taught them. This usually makes me wonder, did the learner listen to what I just said, because it should be impossible to forget that fast, right? However, according to Ebbinghaus’s definition of the forgetting curve almost 60 percent of newly learned things are forgotten during the first hour.