Archive for October, 2010

Jean’s Making Ethics Work Checklist – Management and Leadership Styles

The Human Side of Leadership           

The third stage in developing this Checklist addresses the Crisis, Re-active and Pro-active Management and Leadership Styles.   Remember that any leader or leadership group must manage their leadership role and responsibilities.

To expand this aspect …

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Jean’s Making Ethics Work Checklist – Parameters and Focus

The second stage in developing this Checklist addresses Parameters, Focus, Leadership – Organisational Framework and Definitions, and Management – Critical Success Factors and KPIs.

Parameters:

  1. Primary audience – small and medium enterprises, including nonprofit organisations
  2. Equal responsibility – for Management

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Jean’s Checklist: Making Ethics Work – does this begin and end with Management and Leadership?

The difference – and relationship – between Management and Leadership – and their link with innovation and entrepreneurship.

Managers are expected to achieve agreed objectives with and through people, requiring confidence and skill in:

  1. time and task management,
  2. trialing

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Jean’s Checklist: Exposing the traps in tendering and outsourcing

What’s the relationship between tendering and outsourcing?

 This relationship begins when an entity (eg business, organisation, government department) makes a calculated decision to invite tenders to create and/or supply specific goods or services:

  • successfully inviting tenders begins with a careful

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