by Bart Gragg
From time immemorial man has discussed whether prior experience is a guarantee of future results from an employee. There are ever many factors involved in ‘guess-timating’ their potential for success, but the one that I continually come back to is “In what context will they be a success? What are your criteria??
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Safety,
Teaching and Learning,
Training,
Work Environment
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by Bart Gragg
When a person moves from labor into management they enter a whole new realm of communication, including vocabulary.
Quite often I hear them talk about and ridicule ‘biz-speak’ or ‘corporate-speak’. It’s not that they cannot grasp these concepts, it’s just that they have never experienced them. Some of them are useless to the blue collar manager, others you will want them to understand. Before you use words, phrases and acronyms be sure your audience understands them.
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Management Challenges,
Manager,
Work Environment
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