To coincide with her visit to IMI this week Nancy Kline – the originator and pioneer of The Thinking Environment® process shares her thoughts on attention and interest in a coaching exchange: Are You Interested? By Nancy Kline ‘You are so patient.’ I hear this after almost every Thinking Session demonstration. Other people tell me Read more...
Hemingway defined courage as ‘grace under pressure’. The ability to remain calm under pressure is a core competency for leaders and front-line staff. I have worked extensively with hospital registrars for over a decade and, for medical professionals, emotional intelligence is absolutely critical. For example, if there is a medical emergency, the Registrar must remain Read more...
Find out at our upcoming IMI Business Finance Briefing with Cormac Lucey on Wednesday, 13th February. Understanding your business’ critical numbers is not about doing your accountants job, rather it’s about knowing your businesses financial health at all times and knowing how the decisions you make affect the company accounts. Cormac Lucey, Programme Director of Read more...
Gain an exclusive insight into the High Performance system that saw the Irish Boxing Team return from London 2012 with four Olympic medals. Fergus Barry, IMI Programme Director for the Diploma in Strategic HRM will host a conversation with Billy Walsh, Head Coach of the Irish Olympic Boxing Team and explore the practices underpinning this phenomenal Read more...
As managers and leaders, how can we keep ourselves and our teams consistently motivated over time and how can we achieve this against a challenging economic backdrop? This will be the topic of our next IMI Evening Briefing – SMILE! The briefing will be led by Brendan Foley and will take place on Wednesday September 19th Read more...
The Irish Management Institute today announced a partnership with the de Bono Foundation which will see IMI offer courses and training based on the thinking techniques pioneered by Dr Edward de Bono. “Edward de Bono is a pioneer, a unique figure who has had a major impact on innovation and creativity – two commodities that Read more...
IMI is delighted to announce that we have entered in to a partnership to be the official accredited centre for The Edward de Bono Foundation training programmes in Ireland. To mark this occasion, we are proud to welcome Edward de Bono to the IMI on Wednesday, May 2nd to lead a half-day Creativity Masterclass. Date: Read more...
Customer Development Workshop with Brant Cooper Brant Cooper, author of ‘The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development’, will lead a half day workshop on Customer Development on May 1st, at the IMI. Customer Development is a four step framework for discovering and validating the right market for your ideas, building the right product features that solve Read more...
Recent research has proven that there is a quantifiable link between the level of management practice in a firm and its productivity. McKinsey and LSE have shown that a one-point increase in an organisations management practice effectiveness score, on a scale from 1 to 5, is associated with a 25% increase in labour productivity. But Read more...
Cavanaghs of Charleville was singled out from among the Deloitte Best Managed Companies 2012 announced on March 2nd to receive a special accolade for ‘rising to the challenge’ which was the theme of this year’s programme. The company received a place on the IMI’s Senior Executive Programme which will equip one of its senior team Read more...
Six word wisdom: Build the organisation of your dreams – Professor Gareth Jones
We’re launching a series where we call on thought leaders in business to summarise their message – in just six words. In honour of Bloomsday on Sunday we’ll kick off by quoting Molly Bloom and asking: “Oh Rocks – Tell us in plain words what you really mean!”. First up is Professor Gareth Jones expert in Read On
MOOCs won’t change learning – they will change teaching.
Massive Online Open Courses (MOOCs) and their B-movie monster-like threat to traditional education are all over the blog world again this week. I’m personally very excited by the tsunami of free online content. I just finished the excellent Model Thinking from the University of Michigan on Coursera on models for better decision-making. The platform felt flexible but was deceptively fast-paced so Read On
Are You Interested? – Guest Post: Nancy Kline
To coincide with her visit to IMI this week Nancy Kline – the originator and pioneer of The Thinking Environment® process shares her thoughts on attention and interest in a coaching exchange: Are You Interested? By Nancy Kline ‘You are so patient.’ I hear this after almost every Thinking Session demonstration. Other people tell me Read On
Who Needs a PA? Free Online Tools for Managers
As a manager you need the right information delivered in a succinct and timely manner. It’s easy to feel bombarded by the different data sources competing for our attention in the modern working environment. And while the Internet is undoubtedly a rich source of information, comparatively little has been done to connect the vast number Read On
Empathy, the ‘hardest’ management skill at work…
Just over a week ago I was sitting in the panel of the IMI Diploma in Leadership audit presentations, as I heard each manger and executive reporting back on their leadership audit journey I found very interesting how many of them recognised empathy as a critical area for development. In my job as facilitator, empathy is the Read On