June 2013 Newsletter and Free eBooks

We hope you enjoyed our May newsletter and eBooks. Our articles and eBooks for this month are no less interesting and insightful.

In this month’s newsletter, courtesy of GTC and Economic Associates, we have two articles for you. We have also added three carefully selected eBooks for your reading pleasure.

 Enjoy it! 

Article of the Month 1

Discipline as a Motivational Tool

Category: Leadership/ Personal Development

By: Mervyn Murray, trainer and facilitator at GTC

It is never a nice thing to dismiss people for poor performance or for transgressions of disciplinary rules.

Many managers dread having “The Disciplinary Conversation” with a member of their team. They will:

·         Ignore behavior

·         Be in denial that there is an issue

·         Take a small “stab” at the issue hoping for a result

·         Move the person onto another department

·         Make the person feel unwanted

·         Use sarcasm to make a point…read more

 Article of the Month 2

Nigeria Confronts Post-Crisis Global Economic Realities   

Category: Economic Development

By: Ayo Teriba, MD/CEO, Economic Associates

Nigeria has long been trying to learn how best to manage boom-bust cycles in global commodity prices, adopting an oil-price benchmark for annual budgets while saving revenues above the benchmark in an excess crude account in the half decade before the 2008/2009 global crisis. The crisis and its aftermath now dictate that the country needs additional lessons on how best to manage surge-shortage cycles in global liquidity. Managing frequent external trade shocks is now only a part of the story, managing frequent external financial shocks, particularly with the intricate interactions between the two, is the other part…read more

Free eBooks of the month

Please click on any of the titles below to download the free eBooks for this month.

·         Creating Compelling Customer Value Propositions

·         Performance Management

·         Management Communication

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Nigerian Seminars and Training Team