Tuesday, March 9, 2021

Mentoring

One-on-One Teaching


One-on-one teaching takes many forms.  Each layer or level of individual helping has a unique set of dimensions.  Mentoring, perhaps, requires the most "knowledge and experience" along with a strong sense of caring.  That is not to say that the other roles are any less significant.  I think to be a great mentor you need to be a good teacher-tutor-coach-counselor also.

As the picture suggests each one-on-one

Thursday, February 11, 2021

Objective - objectives

Objectives are statements that will have specific outcomes. Objectives can be set at all levels of a company and can build upon one another from lower to higher level corporate functions. They are often set at the corporate level and then each lower business unit creates a set of Objectives to help support and meet the corporate objectives.  Sometimes they are in financial terms, especially at the corporate level. At lower levels in the company they may take many different forms, but must always have some statement(s) focused on financial results.
Objectives are part of the hierarchy of terms which help set and shape the strategy of a business or unit....
Corporate objectives are set by executive management and provide the focus for setting more detailed objectives at each functional level in the business. The corporate objectives relate to the business as a whole. Your objectives will line up with the corporate objective(s) and support it or them, however they will also be specific to your organization.
For example:

Corporate Objectives - Market share percent
Functional Objectives - Sales per customer
Unit Objectives - 5% increase in sales of product y

Objective examples:
  1. Create delighted customers
  2. Increase revenue to your division by 10K.
  3. Decrease cost per unit of (your widget).
  4. Increase market share to 51%
  5. Bring xyz product to market on Dec. 5th, 2 months before competition
  6. Provide learning opportunities to 25% of employees by end of second quarter
  7. Have MS SharePoint on line within 90 days
  8. Consolidate to three manufacturing locations by 2015
  9. Provide new computers to sale force over the next 24 months
  10. Hire 10 new engineers by Dec. 1st.
  11. Initiate TQM for manufacturing Unit #1 on June 1st.
  12. Move to new customer focused corporate office in by end of 3rd quarter
  13. Reduce product waste to 10% on Jan.1, 5% on Dec.1, and 3% within 24 months
  14. Cut energy consumption on Machine #20 by 5%
  15. Increase factory Y's output 2% within 6 months
  16. Eliminate waste to landfill by 2016

Saturday, July 28, 2012

Business Quote - 2



This is the second of many Business Quotes that will appear over time on this blog: A Vision of Leadership. They will all be listed under the Business Quotes tab and appear every couple of weeks. The frequency is set to give you time to internalize each one before the next is published. Please follow or subscribe to this blog to get the latest updates. If you know of, or have a great business quote of your own please send it to me for inclusion.  Please include author or if it is your quote, include your complete name and contact if you want your name and organization published. When you use these quotes please give credit to the author.