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Duration: 11 minutes 22 seconds

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Canadian Management Centre is excited to host AMA’s Management Podcast, “How to Get More Done with Fewer Meetings” with guest Michael Song.

Meetings have changed. They’re more frequent, virtual, and informal. Yet, most professionals haven’t upgraded their meeting skills. It’s no wonder that 43% of meeting time is wasted. In The Hamster Revolution for Meetings: Your Guide to Effective Meetings in the Information Age, best-selling author Michael Song discusses how to keep your meetings productive, on track, and engaging.

 

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Download Here: BI #80 – Peter Firestein on Building Success Through Reputation

Duration: 20 minutes 23 seconds

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Canadian Management Centre is excited to host AMA’s Management Podcast, “Building Success Through Reputation” with guest Peter Firestein.

Public opinion in the wake of the financial meltdown has revealed the public’s abiding mistrust of corporations and the executives who run them. Scrutiny from the Internet and 24-hour cable TV offers companies no place to hide; so they must proactively seek the confidence of their shareholders and the public. In today’s economy, reputation is a prime factor in a corporation’s bottom line.

Peter Firestein presents Seven Strategies of Reputation Leadership in his book Crisis of Character, offering a fail-proof way for executives to immunize themselves and their companies against the breakdowns that can happen to even the most prominent organizations. Using real-life examples (from Merck and Citigroup to Hewlett-Packard and Coca-Cola), Crisis of Character presents concrete ways executives can shape the internal corporate culture to support their business interests.

 

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Download Here: BI #79 – Claire Wyckoff and Nat Stoddard on Selecting the Right Leader

Duration: 16 minutes 40 seconds

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Leadership failures damage or even destroy companies every day. The Right Leader: Selecting Executives Who Fit by Nat Stoddard and Claire Wyckoff  describes a revolutionary process for selecting executives based on years of consulting for some of North America’s largest companies. The book offers a new approach to eliminate the leadership failures that plague so many companies around the world today. The Right Leader introduces the ‘Match-Fit Model’ and explains how it reduces the risks and costs of executive failure by changing the factors that are considered and by taking into account the cultural dynamics at play in any organization.

 

 BI #78 – Paul Krugman on Staring Down Depression Economics: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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Duration: 10minutes 04seconds

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Canadian Management Centre is excited to host AMA’s Management Podcast,” Staring Down Depression Economics” with guest Dr. Paul Krugman.

Dr Krugman is a professor of economics and international affairs at Princeton University and a regular columnist for the New York Times. He is also the 2008 recipient of the Nobel Prize in Economics.  In this podcast, Dr. Krugman provides a concise account of events that have led to the current economic crisis, and offers solutions for recovery.

During the podcast Krugman shares various insights from his book, The Great Unraveling: Losing Our Way in the New Economy. In this book he discusses how the boom economy unraveled: how exuberance gave way to pessimism, how the age of corporate heroes gave way to corporate scandals, how fiscal responsibility collapsed and provides a road map for recovery.

 

 BI#77 Stephen M.R. Covey on How to Build, Keep and Repair Trust [10:08m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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Duration: 10minutes 04seconds

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Canadian Management Centre is excited to host AMA’s Management Podcast, “How to Build, Keep and Repair Trust” with guest Stephen Covey.

Stephen M.R. Covey is former CEO of Covey Leadership Center, which became the largest leadership development company in the world under Covey’s direction. The company grew quickly and profitably achieving inc. 500 status. Stephen led the strategy that propelled his father’s book, Dr. Stephen R Covey’s The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, to one of the most influential business books of the 20th century.

During the podcast Covey discusses his book, The Speed of Trust, which challenges the age-old assumption that trust is merely a social virtue and instead demonstrates that trust is a hard edged, economic driver - a learnable and measurable skill that makes organizations more profitable, people more promotable, and relationships more energizing. Covey advocates that nothing is as fast as the speed of trust and that the ability to establish, grow, extend, and restore trust with all stakeholders is the critical leadership competency of the new global economy.

 

 BI #76 – Edward Lawler on Making People Your Competitive Advantage: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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Duration: 15minutes 48seconds

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Canadian Management Centre is excited to host AMA’s Management Podcast, “Making People Your Competitive Advantage” with guest Edward E. Lawler.

Edward Lawler is a professor of business at the University of Southern California, and founder of the University’s Center for Effective Organizations (CEO). CEO has been recognized by Fortune and numerous other publications as one of the country’s leading management research organizations. Lawler has also been recognized by Business Week magazine as one of the top six “gurus” in the field of management.

During this podcast Edward will review his book Talent: Making People Your Competitive Advantage, the follow up for his book, Built to Change: How to Achieve Sustained Organizational Effectiveness. Lawler explains how organizations should be designed to make talent the key source of competitive advantage; and through a combination of organization design, management practices, and talent the organization can gain a crucial competitive advantage. Throughout the interview Lawler discusses the cultural differences between Human Capital Centric Organizations and Global Competitive Organizations, providing various successful examples of each. The interview focuses on the common evolution from the human capital approach to global competitive with growth, resulting in a change of client type and service expectation.

 

 BI 75 – Josh Leibner and Gershon Madner on The Power of Strategic Commitment: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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Duration: 14minutes 52seconds

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Canadian Management Centre is excited to host AMA’s Management Podcast “The Power of Strategic Commitment” with guests Josh Liebner and Gershon Madner.

Josh Leibner and Gershon Madner are the founders of the consulting firm Quantum Performance Inc;  A leading management consulting firm that has helped senior executives at Fortune 1000 organizations generate powerful internal alignment from the leadership team right down to the frontline worker.

During the podcast Gershon and Liebner discuss their book “The Power of Strategic Commitment”.  In the interview they explain that even the most well thought out initiatives will fail without true employee ownership, accountability, and engagement. The authors advise on how to improve performance on strategic initiatives through building buy-in from every facet of the organization.

 

 Bruce Tulgan on How to Manage Generation Y: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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Duration: 17minutes, 08seconds

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Canadian Management Centre is excited to present the American Management Association’s Human Resources Podcast “How to Manage Generation Y” with guest Bruce Tulgan.

Bruce Tulgan is internationally recognized as the leading expert on young people in the workplace and one of the leading experts on leadership and management. Bruce is a best-selling author and advisor to business leaders all over the world and a sought after keynote speaker and management trainer.

During this podcast Bruce will review his new book “Not Everyone Gets A Trophy: How To Manage Generation Y “, and explain his theory on the working Generation Y (children born between 1978-1991).

Bruce will also dispel the common myths of this generation, including that these employees have no sense of loyalty, won’t do grunt work, won’t take direction, want to interact only with computers, and are only about money.

Bruce will highlight from his book his four unique keys to managing and motivating the Gen Y employee force:

1. Bruce disproves the idea that the key to recruiting, retaining, and managing this generation is to somehow make the workplace more “fun.” To the contrary, Bruce argues that the key to winning the respect of this generation is to carefully manage their expectations by never downplaying any negative aspect of a job.
2. He also explains how managers can communicate with this Generation; and that is to think transactionally in all negotiations. For the gen. Y’er it’s about what they will do for you today and what you will do for them today, not tomorrow, not five years from today, but today.
3. He will explain why they have no interest in tying their futures to a specific corporation. But he will also make clear that they do have a well thought-out plan for themselves, one that requires that every job they take build up their skill sets so they become more valuable employees for someone else.
4. Lastly, Bruce explains that corporate leaders have to understand that for this generation their personal life comes first, so that each job they take must accommodate itself to some need defined by their personal life.

 

 Business Intelligence #73 Aaron Sandoski on How the Wise Decide: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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Duration: 15 minutes, 33 seconds

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Canadian Management Centre is pleased to present the American Management Association’s Leadership Podcast “How the Wise Decide” with guest Aaron Sandoski.

Aaron Sandoski is the managing director of Norwich Ventures, a medical device venture capital firm. Aaron began his professional career with the consulting firm McKinsey & Company and has also been a teaching fellow at Harvard University, where he won the Allyn Young Teaching Prize.

During this podcast Aaron will review his new book “How the Wise Decide: The Lessons of 21 Extraordinary Leaders” which he co-authored by Bryn Zeckhauser. Aaron suggests that effective leaders not only make better calls, but they are able to discern the really important ones and get a higher percentage of them right. They excel at seeing the need for a call, framing issues, figuring out what is critical, and mobilizing employees.

During this interview Aaron explains that all of the leaders profiled in his book may have been different in terms of their personality and leadership style, but what they all had in common was the ability to make “tough calls” and these “tough calls” were based six core decision-making principles.

 

 BI#72 Max Muller on HR Issues That Managers Need to Know Now: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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Duration:  21 minutes, 24 seconds

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Canadian Management Centre is pleased to present the American Management Association’s Human Resources Podcast “HR Issues That Managers Need to Know Now” with guest Max Muller.

Max Muller is the author of the book, The Manager’s Guide to HR and former President of Electronic Processing, Inc.. During this podcast Max not only introduces his new book but will also explain why every manager needs to have a thorough grasp of basic human resources issues.

Max will give us a step by step guide that gets right to the point of major HR topics and common HR misconceptions:

1. Hiring:

· How to write the perfect job description, then recruit, interview, and check the eligibility of candidates.

2. Training:

· How to make sure your employees have everything they need to do their jobs well, safely, and legally—and how to document it all. Includes information on sexual harassment training.

3. Sexual Harassment and Workplace Violence:

· Detailed definitions and case law examples to prevent your company from allowing harass­ment, and necessary precautions, documen­tation, training, and reporting pertaining to violence or the threat of violence.

4. Performance Evaluation:

· How to bring your appraisal, the employee’s self-review, and the job description together to create a fair, consistent, and effective evaluation.

Max will us give real life examples on how to best manage sensitive HR issues in today’s workplace, for example:  how much documentation do we for each employee? How to confront complicated personnel issues, and even workplace violence.