Samantha Tasker joined the team at the Wisconsin School of Business Center for Professional & Executive Development in December 2019 as a program coordinator for professional development programs.
Management
Six Conversations: Collaborating with Your Staff to Improve Performance [Webinar Recording]
To be an effective manager, you need to facilitate six basic conversations that matter most to your employees and, as it turns out, your organization. Author and CPED instructor Steve King shares a framework that will help you have more effective conversations with your employees.
75 Stories – Alaine Stanner, Program Coordinator of Custom Development Solutions
Alaine Stanner joined the Wisconsin School of Business Center for Professional & Executive Development in March 2019, as the Program Coordinator of Custom Development Solutions.
75 Stories – Steve King, CPED Instructor/Past Executive Director
Steve King has served as an instructor for the past 12 years and was previously the Executive Director for the Center for Professional & Executive Development (CPED).
75 Stories – Tim Spice, Software Development Manager
Tim Spice, a community member who has recently completed his third CPED Professional Development Certificate, has propelled his career path by expanding his skillsets with both technical and leadership development.
This 360° Assessment Can Transform Your Leadership Style
Leadership Beyond Management is an empowering, interactive, and transformational program that gives you a clear and unbiased view of your leadership strengths and developmental needs. In this program you become well-equipped with strategies and tools that you can immediately put to use in order to positively impact and influence individuals and teams within your organization.
Driving Innovation in India
Indian family businesses and entrepreneurs have a great deal to teach nonfamily-owned organizations about innovation. So what can large, publicly held organizations learn from Indian family businesses and entrepreneurs? We observed a few critical lessons.
What Got You Here, Won’t Get You There
One of the fundamental contributors that limits the success rate of changes in the organization is a management philosophy and approach that focuses on productivity and efficiency. This management approach has been the predominant philosophy for the last 100 years, but what has gotten organizations here will not be the key philosophy that will boost organizations for the next 100 years.
Subject Matter Expert to Team Leader
Lack of understanding of the transformative job change is the number one cause of technical team leader failure.
Five Tips to Asking Your Employees the Right Questions
Good questions (and good questioning) require practice. To practice better questions you must be deliberate, thoughtful, genuine, and clear in your own mind what outcome you seek.