Posts Tagged: management

Go Ahead & Fail: Learning from Failure

For most people, it’s difficult to admit to failure, mostly because we tend to view failure as a bad thing. It’s because somewhere along the way, the word failure became personal; people think that when they fail, it reflects back on them as a person and that they are somehow insufficient or lacking because of their mistakes. That doesn’t have to be the case. As innovator Ben Shaffer says in his presentation on failure, you can’t get to the ground-breaking ideas without building ...
July 2, 2014 by ICG in Blog
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Listening Up: Why Listening Is So Important as a Business Owner

One of the most important responsibilities of a business is to make sure each employee feels valued. What’s the best way to do that? The web is full of advice on how to help your employees succeed as members of your business. But where’s a good place to start? By listening to your employees. Sounds pretty easy, right? Except thinking honestly, many of us know that it really isn’t. There are so many things going through our minds during a work day that actually ...
May 21, 2014 by ICG in Blog
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What Is Change Management?

In conversations about our services here on our blog, and even in broader conversations about SAP HCM consulting, a term you're very likely to see come up is "change management." But if you're unfamiliar with SAP HCM and HCM solutions, there's a chance that you may not know exactly what change management is, or why it matters. So what is change management, and why should businesses be so concerned with it? Put simply, change management is an approach to implementing changes in an ...
February 13, 2014 by ICG in Blog
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