The founders of the Jack Welch Management Institute, a fully accredited online MBA program, present a guide to overcoming modern business challenges, with recommendations for creating effective strategies, leading others, and building a thriving career.

Onboarding turns the key, opening the door to talent development Investing in onboarding means investing in employee success and the business of the future. Effective onboarding programs both increase and facilitate employee engagement and business results; onboarding shortens the employee learning curve by increasing job knowledge. If you need to design, revise, or expand your company's onboarding program, Effective Onboarding offers a simple-to-follow...

Jon Gordon doesn't just research the keys to great teams, he has personally worked with some of the most successful teams on the planet and has a keen understanding of how and why they became great. In The Power of a Positive Team, Jon draws upon his unique team building experience as well as conversations with some of the greatest teams in history in order to provide an essential framework, filled with proven practices, to empower teams to work together...

Launching a peer-to-peer knowledge-sharing platform is not easy. Online support forums have two distinct segments: those who seek product support, and those who provide it. Knowledge seekers are hesitant to ask questions if knowledge contributors are few and far between, and knowledge contributors will not sign up if there are not enough problems to solve. It is a classic chicken or egg challenge that can be effectively addressed by seeding the platform...

Nach Kl�rung des Team-Begriffs sowie der Grundhaltungen und Rollen eines Team-Coaches entwickeln die Autoren ein Modell f�ur nachhaltige Teamentwicklung, basierend auf f�unf grundlegenden Handlungsfeldern (Psychologische Sicherheit, Wissen, Erfahrung, Werte, Haltung). Ein darauf abgestimmter Leitfaden f�uhrt in f�unf immer wiederkehrenden Arbeitsschritten durch den Teamentwicklungsprozess. Zw�lf in Wort und Bild illustrierte Team-Personas...

Sales growth starts with planning Sales accounts are harder than ever to win, let alone keep. Globalization, cloud computing, and crowdsourcing create a marketplace where any account can be lured away by a hungry startup. And the face-time advantage? Forget it. Today's high-quality sale will likely involve six or more decision makers. That's why it's time to get strategic about how sales teams frame their approach. In Essential Account Planning, sales...

If you think sophisticated communication technologies are the ticket to your virtual team's success, think again. It's not the tech that matters - it's how people use it. New research reveals five strategies for conquering distance and improving communication and performance in dispersed teams. The same strategies can help co-located teams, which depend increasingly on virtual.

Leaders grapple with bringing accountability into everything they do, for both internal audiences and the wider community of stakeholders.