Business Coaching

In last week’s column, I emphasized the importance of culture in your company. I tried to show you how I attempted to establish culture in my classroom during the first meeting of the semester and what you might learn from those efforts to apply to culture development in your organization. In this week’s column, I will continue my discussion of organizational culture through the lens of college football. Through an example near and dear to my heart, I will try to show you how a leader’s words and actions have

A team of experts based in the Georgia Cyber Innovation and Training Center is holding a workshop to help businesses develop a unified vision for their company. The organization, Purpose Fueled Leader, is sponsoring Unified Company Vision: Purpose Fueled Excellence on Jan. 23. “We are a business, coaching, and consulting organization, purpose, skilled leader,” Anna Bradsher, Director of Strategy, Trainer and Coach, told ABD. “We focus on how to marry strategy and people development. We will help you set your three-year and your one-year (goals), and your business objectives. You

Later today, I will be meeting for the first time with each of the three classes I will be teaching during the Spring Semester. Two of the classes will be for upper-level undergraduates and one class will be for MBA students. While I will not cover much of the course subject (Operations and Supply Chain Management) material during these opening sessions, it likely will be one of the most important class meetings of the semester for each of these courses. The reason these sessions are so important is that they

Publisher’s Note: Tomorrow is December 31st, both New Year’s Eve and the official end of 2024. In case you missed a previous article, Dr. Rick Franza took a break from grading his students and graded himself on predictions he made about a year ago. Last Thursday, my esteemed colleague, Dr. Simon Medcalfe, provided another of his informative and amusing talks at the annual Hull College of Business’ Economic Forecast Breakfast. His presentation at this time last year inspired me to consult my “crystal ball” and make my predictions for 2024

Last Thursday, my esteemed colleague, Dr. Simon Medcalfe, provided another of his informative and amusing talks at the annual Hull College of Business’ Economic Forecast Breakfast. His presentation at this time last year inspired me to consult my “crystal ball” and make my predictions for 2024 in this space. Since regular readers know that I stress accountability, it would be hypocritical not to look back and see how I did. Since I am a college professor currently determining my students’ semester grades, I will assign myself a grade for each