http://www.conchius.com Facilitating excellence! Tue, 07 Sep 2010 07:50:33 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Have you ever heard about Affirmations? Athletes call them visualizations, Priests call them prayers and Buddhist monks call them meditation on a topic.  So, what am I saying here exactly, what has praying got to do with affirmations and visualizations? Focused meditation, praying, visualizations, affirmations are according to my experience all ... http://www.conchius.com/published-articles/to-be-or-not-to-be-that-is-the-question To create lasting performance change it is necessary to first understand the positive and negative influence that a person's personal behaviors has on their execution and what impact these have on their ability to achieve success. Only when we fully understand a person's behavioral patterns and create positive self-managing coaching ... http://www.conchius.com/published-articles/performance-coaching-in-the-workplace CONCHIUS new Change Management program is very well received and help bring changes into organizations. Often there is great buy-in to changes in the higher ranks in the company, but how to bring this enthusiasm down and create momentum where the change is really happening? The Change Management program is a ... http://www.conchius.com/corporate-news/change-management-get-to-action Many managers are concerned with the 80’s generation lack of self-control, often describing them as “too emotional” and not treating each other with respect. One of the main reasons for this is that being from the single-child generation; the 80's generation have little experience handling emotions and set-backs. Employees who ... http://www.conchius.com/published-articles/how-to-deal-with-emotional-employees CONCHIUS latest research includes in-depth interviews with more than 100 Chinese and Western managers about managing the new 80’s generation. We wanted to see what are the strengths and challenges with the new work force rapidly becoming the core resource in companies in China. A big challenge found was that ... http://www.conchius.com/published-articles/is-the-80%e2%80%99s-generation-less-disciplined CONCHIUS team is happy to Welcoming James Mcleod to our organization. With more than 20 years sales and marketing experience, James is a strong addition to our team. Last position was as Director for conferences and events at China Economic Review. Welcome to CONCHIUS James! http://www.conchius.com/corporate-news/new-director-of-sales-and-marketing Whenever someone moves to a new country, the most striking things are the differences compared to the homeland. When arriving in China, expatriates’ initial reaction is no different. In the new environment the newcomer often focuses on the 5% perceived difference instead of looking at the 95% similarities which can ... http://www.conchius.com/published-articles/find-the-strengths-of-local-staff In business today it is a fierce competition and only companies with their long term visions and missions clear to them survive in the long run. All too often do we see companies with great ideas or products disappear and no one really understood what happened. Organizations have four primary ... http://www.conchius.com/published-articles/people-performance-and-productivity All our experiences and most research findings indicate that it is attitudes and personal behavioral patterns, rather than a lack of technical skills, which keeps employees and managers from reaching their full potential. Take long-term high performance for example. What is it that makes the employees in one unit outperform ... http://www.conchius.com/published-articles/keys-to-successful-personal-development In 2006, we launched a large research study with over 100 Chinese Executives working in Western Multinationals. One of the questions we ask the participants is why they choose a career in a Western company. While we expected money to be the number one reason for choosing to work in ... http://www.conchius.com/published-articles/why-chinese-executives-choose-western-companies