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Darrell Lim

THREE WAYS TO FACILITATE CREATIVITY IN TEAMS

One of the best qualities attributed to world-class leaders is their ability to lead their organizations with bold innovation and creative gravitas.  What you may not realize is that these leaders don’t always come up with all the great ideas, but they foster environments where creative ideas are encouraged and explored regularly. A crucial element to an effective work environment is the openness to new ideas that have the possibility of improving the product, services, vendor relationships and even the organization itself. There are a variety of ways that you can do just that,

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Darrell Lim

BUILDING STRONG TEAMS – PART 2

As you build your organization, you have probably thought about how to improve the performance of the current team that you work with.  Whether you have two employees or two hundred, this series aims to equip you with common sense but not necessarily common practice tools.  This week, I will be writing about the second step of building strong teams: how to keep your team at peak performance! Annual Reviews : Most established organizations have an annual review process that normally coincides with a salary evaluation.  If you do not have annual reviews, you need to consider the c

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Darrell Lim

PROFITABILITY AND PEOPLE

No doubt, profitability should always be the focus of any successful organization. As we approach the halfway mark of the year, you are probably firmly aware of how much profit your business has already made and how well it is projected to do this year. Perhaps you work in a not-for-profit environment and your concern is increasing value to your clients instead of profitability. At the end of the day, no matter what goals you set, you must never neglect to consider the importance of growing the human capital of your organization.  These critical levers to business success stay l

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Darrell Lim

MOTIVATING YOUR TEAM

I’ve been going through a book on my looming stack of “To Read” books and have really loved what Daniel Pink writes about in his book If you care to go through its wonderful 200 plus pages, you will be enlightened on what truly motivates people on your team. Pink builds on what other leadership guru’s like Peter Drucker and Jim Collins have written around creating cultures that are highly engaging and self-motivating.  The 3 factors that lead to better performance and job satisfaction and are: Autonomy: Our desire to be self directed. Mastery: The urge to get better at what you

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Darrell Lim

BUILDING STRONG TEAMS – PART 1

As you build your organization, you have probably thought about how to improve the performance of the current team that you work with. Whether you have two employees or two hundred, this series aims to equip you with common sense but not necessarily common practice tools. This week, I will be writing about the first step of building strong teams: the hiring process! Create detailed job postings.  I have seen far too many job advertisements that have a total of 3 lines of detail in the posting. The more information you can put down about the job, the less work you have to do in w