Common Types of Participative Meetings

Jack Prot

There are many types of meetings. Most meetings fall into the non-participatory category, where attendees are briefed on new information rather than asked to participate in the meeting process. The best meetings are highly participative, where everyone in the meeting contributes to the purpose of having the meeting. When scheduling […]

Career Clusters, A Bridge Between Education and Career Planning

Jack Prot

Since 1960s, career cluster resources have been used as career exploration and planning tools in schools, learning communities, and organizations across the nation. Career Clusters is a system that matches educational and career planning. Step 1: Identifying Career Cluster Interest Areas Career clusters are groups of similar occupations and industries. […]

Coaching and Feedback

Jack Prot

As leaders, we are in the constant mode of either coaching or providing feedback. At the same time we are knowingly or unknowingly being coached or counseled. As a trainer, coaching and feedback is not only an important KRA but also the most valuable tool to improve the performance of […]

Conflict Resolution Training For Business Success

Jack Prot

Conflict resolution training goes by other names depending on the degree program and the concentration that one is pursuing. Degree programs are also identified by names such as negotiation training, peace studies, dispute resolution, reconciliation, and conflict mediation. This may also depend on whether one is pursuing the degree from […]

Zero Tolerance for Mediocrity

Jack Prot

Talk to any MBA student and he or she will tell you that there are two styles of management; Theory X and Theory Y. Under Theory X management, it is assumed that people are naturally lazy and irresponsible and further that if brains were gunpowder, the average employee couldn’t blow […]

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