Learning and Management Partners provides practical insights and solutions for behaviour, management and leadership issues.
I approach behaviour in the same way that I approach taking my body to the gym and doing strength training. To strengthen my capacity to perform effectively, I develop my role analysis and assertiveness skills and abilities. As a Behaviour Strategist, I have first-hand experience of how behaviour, inappropriately used, can have a constructive or … Read more
Learning To Manage Performance Does Not Come Easily I was barely twenty-one (21) years of age when I first became a Supervisor in the Computer Department. My responsibility was Computer Operations and every one of my staff members was a lot older and more experienced than I was in the world of work. Being … Read more
This Is Not About Learning Management Systems Before you dive into this article having an expectation that it would lead you to a discovery about all the formalities surrounding Learning Management Systems, (LMS), let me be up front with you and tell you that it is not. This post is simply about learning and management … Read more
I lived in New Zealand for a few years, just before the turn of the 21st century. It was not a place that I knew much about prior to going there to live and work. I had heard about the country as one of our West Indian cricket team’s major opponents, but it was bungy … Read more
Assertive behaviour occupies the attention of many performance, management and leadership discussions. It falls into the misunderstood, misused and mistaken buckets and I would therefore like to offer a definition that is simple. More often than not assertive behaviour is placed into the grouping of passive, aggressive and assertive and applied randomly. The pendulum swings … Read more
Communication Enables You It was the motivational guru, Anthony Robbins, who got me thinking some years ago when I heard him shout: “You can become the change you want to see in our world every day!” I was visiting with my Mum and I was taken aback by the fact that this man seemed to … Read more
Habits Are As Simple As Water Changing your life does not have to be a complex, drawn-out process. It can actually be likened to drinking a glass of water every day. All you have to do is start and you will soon realise how daily habits change your life. Water is simple sustenance. As simple … Read more
If you cannot define it, you cannot measure it. If you cannot measure it, you cannot manage it. If you cannot manage it, you cannot change it. If you cannot change it, you stay the same. Definition – The Secret in Change Management I started to research Change Management in the late1980’s. Computers were all … Read more