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Strategies for the Workplace

These podcasts will help you develop key workforce skills: • Effective Communication • Teamwork and Collaboration • Problem Solving and Critical Thinking • Decision Making • Time Management • Adaptability and Resilience • Technical Literacy • Career Planning • Professionalism Each episode is applicable in many industries and are ‘evergreen’, relevant and appropriate over time. Each episode starts with a brief overview of a concept, which is followed by an application section that either goes into

business careers

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5:11

The High '2'

Strategies for the Workplace ·

2025/09/16

It is easy to give out good news, hard to give out bad news. Alas, for managers, disappointing some people on your team is almost always part of the job, and you will have to find a style that works for you.

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3:39

Conway's Law

Strategies for the Workplace ·

2025/09/09

Common challenges and regular communication within an organizational subgroup will tend to cause the overall organization’s structure to subdivide by subgroup. At a minimum, recognize it. If it is not what you want, you will have an uphill battle to overcome the tendency.

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3:36

Merger and Acquisition

Strategies for the Workplace ·

2025/09/02

In any transaction, you want the right offering, at the right time, at the right price. If you don’t have all three, don’t proceed.

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03:25

Non-Disclosure Agreements

Strategies for the Workplace ·

2025/08/26

In general, one party (or both in the mutual form) agrees that certain information is valuable to the other party and should not be disclosed.

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04:01

Best Practices for Meetings

Strategies for the Workplace ·

2025/08/19

Business meetings are a tool and, as with any tool, to get maximum efficiency and effectiveness, you need good technique.

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02:21

Accuracy vs Precision

Strategies for the Workplace ·

2025/08/13

Your focus should be accuracy first, precision after. The level of precision should also be useful, not so crude as to prevent proper planning or execution and not so fine as to be unnecessarily exact, or worse, convey a level of certainty that is not justified by the data or process.

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02:02

Moving the Goalposts

Strategies for the Workplace ·

2025/08/05

“Moving the goalposts” is shorthand for changing the terms of some arrangement.

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04:28

Do You Want to Play or Coach?

Strategies for the Workplace ·

2025/07/29

Consider the responsibilities, benefits, and limitations of a staff vs a management role. Since here we are focused on early-career issues, deciding if management appeals to you is something you should consider soon and, if it is something you want to pursue, let your manager know.

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03:06

You Can't Unring a Bell

Strategies for the Workplace ·

2025/07/22

Appreciate that not everything can be undone and, when dealing with the irreversible, proceed with extra care.

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04:22

Top-Down and Bottom-Up

Strategies for the Workplace ·

2025/07/15

Recognize the terms, ‘top-down’ and ‘bottom-up’ and to think about whether you should apply either or both approaches.

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03:58

Reports

Strategies for the Workplace ·

2025/07/08

Think first about what decisions will need to be made, then about what information would support those decisions, then about what kinds of reports would provide that information.

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06:17

Opportunity and Risk in Partnering

Strategies for the Workplace ·

2025/07/01

Partnership offers opportunities, to reach new markets, add new skills, enhance your brand through association, manage surges in demand, test-drive a deeper relationship, and so on. Partnerships also have risks, such as mixed messages to the market, damaging your brand through association, additional complexity for your customers, intellectual property problems, employee retention challenges, revenue impacts, etc. The point is to think carefully about all the potential upsides and downsides.

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03:04

Frog in the Boiling Water

Strategies for the Workplace ·

2025/06/24

The expression, ‘a frog in boiling water’ is related to two scenarios. In one case, you place a frog in a pot of cool water. The frog remains since it perceives no danger. You slowly raise the temperature of the water and because the change is gradual, the frog never quite appreciates its peril. Eventually, the frog is boiled to death. In the other case, you place a frog in boiling water. The frog instantly perceives the danger and leaps out, saving itself. The point is that things have

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05:44

Structured Thinking Two-by-Two

Strategies for the Workplace ·

2025/06/17

Organizing your thinking and expressing it in an easy-to-digest form can help you or a team turn something muddled into something clear. Don’t be afraid to use a very simple format and the humble two-by-two diagram can help.

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04:18

Necessary and Sufficient

Strategies for the Workplace ·

2025/06/10

The words necessary and sufficient may be used in business to draw a distinction between something that is required (the necessary part) and yet, alone, is not enough to achieve some goal (thus insufficient). The point is to recognize that folks may confuse some basic requirements with doing enough to meet some objective; that is, they are focusing only on what is necessary, without appreciating that this alone will not be sufficient.

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03:33

Inflection Point

Strategies for the Workplace ·

2025/06/03

An inflection point is an event, activity, or condition that marks a significant transition from the circumstances before and what comes after. For example, an inflection point may mark when the fortunes of a business, product, or service changes from modest growth to rapid growth or slows from rapid growth to modest growth or even decline.

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04:38

Getting What You Need From Someone Else

Strategies for the Workplace ·

2025/05/27

There are things you need to do in order to get other people to do work you need. Investing in the process and the quality of the up-front work will pay dividends; short-changing the process can result in no useful deliverable, wasted time and money, or worse.

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03:27

The Checklist Process

Strategies for the Workplace ·

2025/05/20

The point is that if you have a multi-step process and consistency is important, develop and adhere to a check list or have a great reason why you don’t.

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04:02

'Audibles' and 'Game-Time Decisions'

Strategies for the Workplace ·

2025/05/13

The point is to decide when you need to decide something before you decide it. It may be useful to make some decisions later than you initially think, although don’t assume this is costless. Should changes be possible near execution time, be certain everyone knows that this can happen and that you have effective communication channels to ensure all participants get the update.

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03:10

Puzzles and Mysteries

Strategies for the Workplace ·

2025/05/06

When trying to figure something out, it can be useful to distinguish a puzzle from a mystery. Puzzles have well defined pieces and the solution may come from time spent organizing, rearranging, and so on. A mystery is not the same thing, and it may have no simple answer. Mysteries require a different kind of analysis and may not be solvable. The reason that it is important to distinguish between a puzzle and a mystery is that how you approach the search for a solution involves a different

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