Doing is Believing! Get your D.I.B.s on Teamwork! Teamwork. It’s one of the business competencies that gets bandied about a lot and has a lot of different connotations depending on your definition of “team,” which has gotten more complex as … Read More
Doing is Believing! Get your D.I.B.s here! It is unlikely that anyoe would disagree with the statement that a collaborative environment is a more productive environment than an non-collaborative environment. So how do you get D.I.B.s on Collaboration? Is this one of … Read More
Doing is Believing. Seeing is believing is what we usually hear, but there is just no substitute for “doing.” So if “Doing is Believing,”… THEN after you DO you “have D.I.B.s” on whatever it is that you’ve done! And we … Read More
We often look at business acumen as a group of business skills competencies including finance, strategy and decision-making. Today I was reviewing some post-workshop comments from an Income/Outcome program in Japan, and I realized that ‘big picture understanding’ may not … Read More
Sometimes people working for non-profits or not-for-profit organizations are unfamiliar with basic business concepts and ideas. Non-profits don’t consider themselves to be “in business.” They see themselves as an organization working for the betterment of the community or the world. … Read More
As part of helping people visualize how they impact the business they work in, our Income/Outcome simulations all use little wooden figures to represent a company’s various job functions. Some stand on the Balance Sheet, for example if their labor … Read More
I believe the speed and accuracy of the flow of information is the greatest competitive advantage available in the business world today. Without it, any business acumen competency is worthless. Stories from three of our clients come to mind: A … Read More
For 15 years the Tel Aviv-based training and consulting company Yissum has been our partner in Israel. Led by Israel Yogev and Rami Joseph, they have been enormously active in generating new clients – a situation that has been forced on … Read More
Guest Writer: Maria Chow (Spark Asia): Asia is a high-growth region with great potentials for a training programme like Income/Outcome. It is however extremely diverse – cultural/work practices as well as languages vary from country to country. Today, I would … Read More
Going through an Income/Outcome workshop provides a number of business competencies including the ability to read and visualize financial statements. You will make better decisions. In the simulation, you learn to use game board itself as a mental checklist for … Read More