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The Communication Process: How to Improve Your Communication
Wilkinson, Helen; Cardona Soriano, PabloTechnical Note DPON-51-ELeadership and People ManagementThe aim of this technical note is to aid the personal development of management's communication abilities. Communication is the basis of all interpersonal relationships and of the smooth running of any type of organization, including companies. Several studies have shown that a company's global performance is directly related to the quality of its managers' communication. The note then goes on to examine how we communicate, as a first step to ach...Starting at €8.20
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Creativity and Innovation. How to Encourage Them
Wilkinson, Helen; Cardona Soriano, PabloTechnical Note DPON-54-ELeadership and People ManagementThis technical note is intended to help develop the competence of creativity. Companies are not creative and innovative in themselves, as abstract entities. If a company is creative, it is because the people in it are creative. But is creative talent confined to a privileged few, or can it be acquired? Talent is made up of attitude and aptitude, that is, the will and the ability to be creative. This technical note looks at how creative attitude a...Starting at €8.20
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Customer Orientation
Wilkinson, Helen; Cardona Soriano, PabloTechnical Note DPON-52-ELeadership and People ManagementThis technical note aims to help the personal development of management's customer orientation capacity. The customer is the reason why any company exists. Today, customers are better educated and better trained, more selective and demanding, and they have a greater capacity for choice. As such, customer orientation is more important than ever for the survival of the company. If a company wishes to develop a customer orientation culture capable o...Starting at €8.20
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Rebuilding Trust From the Ground Up
Arrunada, Benito; Cardona Soriano, Pablo; Castaldo, Sandro; Rosanas Martí, Josep Maria; Wilkinson, HelenDossier DOS-3-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility, Economics, Leadership and People Management, MarketingThe workplace has become a hard hat zone. Here we provide tools to clear the rubble and rebuild confidence.Starting at €15.00
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Building the Virtuous Circle of Trust
Cardona Soriano, Pablo; Wilkinson, HelenArticle ART-1600-ELeadership and People ManagementDuring times of recession, feelings of distrust in organizations become acute, making it more necessary than ever to understand how trust is created and maintained. According to the authors, the relationship between managers and subordinates is fundamental to building and maintaining trust. In this article, they present a model based on the results of an international study and their own professional experience as coaches. Put simply, when the be...Starting at €8.20
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Conflict Management
Wilkinson, Helen; Cardona Soriano, PabloTechnical Note DPON-53-ELeadership and People ManagementThis technical note is intended to help develop the competence of conflict management. We all know from experience that conflict is a fact of life. And it is not always a bad thing. On the contrary, it can be very positive and stimulating, provided it is kept within certain limits. There are two dimensions to any conflict: rational and emotional. Problems arise when emotional harmony is disrupted. Conflict is a dynamic phenomenon and goes through...Starting at €8.20
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Capacity for Change
Wilkinson, Helen; Cardona Soriano, PabloTechnical Note DPON-55-ELeadership and People ManagementThis technical note offers help for developing the management competence of capacity for change. We live in fast-moving times. Change is not waiting to happen; it is going on all the time, without stopping. For organizations, change is not a luxury, but a vital necessity. Companies must be capable of leading the way and implementing change. To do that they need to have a long-term vision and a clear strategy. And they need to have agents of chang...Starting at €8.20