Worldwide Offices
Monday 17th October, Fitzwilliam Hall, Dublin How do leaders really spend their time? Are they preoccupied with strategy? Are they focussed on the present or the future? How do they motivate their people and get ‘buy in’? Jeff will identify the core skills and behaviour displayed by those leaders. He will examine how they deal with people – the steps they take to establish trust and understanding, the importance of communication and the approaches used to inspire top performance. Jeff will also discuss how leaders create and articulate a clear vision for their organisation and how they effectively lead change. Jeff’s presentation style is straight-forward, accessible and rich with vivid anecdotes. The session is relevant to anyone who finds themselves thrown into a leadership role. It will al
Read More Post a comment
Having been instrumental in regulating the telecoms industry, Etain Doyle now specialises in leadership development. Her advice for owner-managers is to consistently take a step back from the nuts and bolts of their business in order to clarify the direction they want to go in. Sorcha Corcoran reports ‘It’s important to spend a little time on the business in order not to spend too much time in the business’ ETAIN Doyle remembers sitting at her desk in what was going to be the Telecommunications Regulator’s office in 1996, leafing through the pages of the legislation and thinking: “I have to turn these pages into a living organisation that will deliver what is required. What do I need to do?” The goal-setting process she went through then
Read More Post a comment
Top US Business Author Presents a Free Workshop to Business Leaders
edoyle, Jun 04, 2010
Featured CategoryVistage Ireland chair Etain Doyle will be hosting a member guest day at the Fitzwilliam Dublin Hotel on the 23 June. The international speaker Gary Markle will present his session 'Catalytic Coaching - A performance management system that works.' In this highly interactive workshop tailored specifically to meet the needs of Vistage participants, Gary makes his case for the abolishment of conventional methods of performance evaluation and teaches participants how to replace them with a more effective and efficient system that he calls “Catalytic Coaching”. The workshop will give participants a complete overview of an employee development system designed to accomplish five key business objectives: • Change behaviour • Motivate employees
Read More Post a comment
Jo Haigh is coming to Dublin this week to give a workshop to Vistage members and guests on ‘Finance for Non-Accountants’. Many CEOs get to the top because of their expertise in their profession, in sales/marketing or operations or whatever. They would not have survived without grasping the financial basics. However, especially in difficult times, they can find their discomfort with finance and what their accountants are presenting to them a source of worry rather than information to act on. Jo provides a crystal clear and no-nonsense guide to banish that discomfort and to enable participants ask the questions that get the revealing answers..... Kyran Fitzgerald interviews Jo Haigh A bestselling author of business books, Ambassador for a middle s
Read More Post a comment
The Government is banking on an innovation revolution to play a major part in extracting the country from the economic and financial black hole into which it has toppled so unceremoniously. In the last few weeks, two leading State groups, FAS and the Innovation Taskforce, have produced major reports suggesting that further shifts up the technological tree can produce major dividends in the area of job creation. According to the latest FAS Manpower Forecasting Study, the number of employed scientists, engineers, business and IT professionals grew strongly in recent years, with employment in each of these categories at least doubling between 1996 and 2008. This trend is expected to resume as a reco
Read More Post a comment
MediaSnackers the social media experts took the opportunity to present to Vistage 33 at the Fitzwilliam Hotel in Dublin. They ran a successful session on social media explaining the benefits of it to the corporate world. See below to see how the day went
Many of the elite of international business and politics gather, each year, at the Swiss resort of Davos to feel each others' pulse. The World Economic Forum may attract "the great and the good", but as an event it is less staged than the great organised photocalls of statesmen and women gathered at a G8 or G20 event. This year, an energetic debate took place between some of the West's top bankers and a posse of regulators and economists led by the Chairman of Britain's Financial Services Authority, Lord Adair Turner and the French President Nicolas Sarkozy. It is no surprise that banking was at the top of the agenda. While talk of another Great Depression has disappeared, few anticipate a strong recovery in the countries most hit by the financial crisis.
Read More Post a comment
![doyle[1]](http://www.vistageireland.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/doyle1.jpg "doyle[1]")
As a Vistage Group Chair operating in Dublin, I am very conscious of the challenges and opportunities facing CEOs today.
The dictionary of disaster words has been exhausted to describe the current economic and financial position of the country in which businesses have to operate.
And yet, every CEO has to get up and lead his or her business every day, and find ways of dealing directly and through his/her staff with a myriad of issues, all of which are more complex and time-consuming today:-
- retaining existing customers and maintaining the relevance of service offerings and products......
- finding new customers and products,
Ask anyone running a business and they will certainly agree. During the current downturn, people in charge of organisations, commercial and non commercial, public and private, are being forced to make painful decisions affecting often long serving employees and their families. It is not easy to ask people to challenge and perhaps abandon established ways of working, traditional structures, or settled arrangements. In a very uncertain world, it is not easy to determine which of the massive market changes are transient and which are the ones to build on for the future. Many chief executives feel a need to test their ideas in such an environment. However, given inevitable time constraints and the need to maintain the confidence of and support those around one, the process of engineering such a dis
Read More Post a comment
