Gina Abudi

Successful Mentoring Programs

Gina — Wed, 29 Jan 2020 14:30:00 +0000

The First Few Meetings Matter!

The first few meetings of mentors and protégé (or mentee) makes a significant difference in the success of the mentoring program.

These initial meetings are about building relationships and establishing trust. Mentoring cannot be successful if trust does not exist. Mentoring is a longer-term relationships [...]

Human Resources & Learning & Development – Are You Providing Training Programs for your Senior Leaders?

Gina — Wed, 22 Jan 2020 14:30:00 +0000

We don’t often consider the need for training, or professional development, opportunities for senior leaders. We do, however, consider what training is needed for nearly all other employees in the organization and may even have training programs in place for various groups/levels of employees. But senior leaders in the organization need learning opportunities [...]

What Change Initiatives(Projects) Will You Launch in 2020?

Gina — Wed, 15 Jan 2020 14:30:00 +0000

It’s that time of year when Abudi Consulting Group starts to work with our clients to determine large, complex change initiatives that will be launched in the new year. The information for the types of change initiatives to be launched usually focuses on one or more of the following:

Those projects that will [...]

Hey Leaders – How about the impact of change on you?

Gina — Wed, 08 Jan 2020 14:30:00 +0000

Leaders are told to consider the impact of a change on the team they are leading; but what about them? What about the impact of change on the leader him or herself? As a leader how you ever considered the impact of a change on you?

In consulting with leaders around change, [...]

Providing Opportunities for Employees When Career Paths Do Not Exist

Gina — Wed, 11 Dec 2019 14:30:00 +0000

Not every role in an organization has a clear and specific career path for employees to progress through their roles. But this does not mean that you can’t provide opportunities for employees to develop their skills and take on leadership roles. Be creative!

Here are some ways to provide employees with opportunities [...]

Providing Feedback that Makes Sense!

Gina — Wed, 04 Dec 2019 14:30:00 +0000

Abigail, a manager of a customer service support team, often provides feedback to her employees that they find to be of no value. She has told employees that “You need to do a better job on the phone with customers,” or noted good work with comments such as, “Good job!”

What’s wrong [...]

Why Emotional Intelligence Matters for Leaders

Gina — Wed, 27 Nov 2019 14:30:11 +0000

Emotional intelligence (EI) is out ability to understand our own emotions and manage those emotions. It also enables us to understand and manage the emotions of others.

Strong EI as a leader means leaders have stronger working relationships across the organization, collaborate and communicate more effectively with others, and can influence [...]

Helping New Managers Succeed

Gina — Wed, 20 Nov 2019 14:30:00 +0000

Too often we promote individual contributors into roles where we now want them to manage people without providing them what they need to be successful. Simply because someone is good technically – doing the tasks associated with their role – doesn’t mean they will be good leading people. Leading people requires different skillsets. [...]

Enable for Collaboration in Training Programs

Gina — Wed, 02 Oct 2019 13:30:05 +0000

A Mini Case Study

Enabling for collaboration in training programs enables for increased interactions between participants and the facilitator and increased opportunities for learning. Many of my clients assume that to enable for more collaborative efforts, training has to be over a longer time period, for example a year long leadership program. But collaboration can [...]

Engage Employees in Change

Gina — Wed, 21 Aug 2019 14:01:24 +0000

It matters to ensure support and adoption

When change is launched in an organization, there is an expectation among senior leadership that it will be successful. Sometimes this assumption is made because the change appears to be minor and “not a big deal.” Other times this assumption is made because senior leadership understands why the [...]

Coach Employees to Strengthen their Emotional Intelligence

Gina — Wed, 19 Jun 2019 13:30:09 +0000

Not every employee who joins the organization has strong emotional intelligence. Some employees tend to be reactive and don’t handle stress or conflict well. They are easily “triggered” by others and may not collaborate or communicate in the best way.

Writing up an employee under a Performance Improvement Plan is not the [...]

Selling your Project to Employees

Gina — Wed, 12 Jun 2019 14:14:37 +0000

In our article last week, we talked about how to sell our project to executives. In this article, we’ll cover how to sell our projects to employees (non-leaders in the organization.)

When we are launching a new project, we need employee buy-in just as much as executive buy-in. While employees are not [...]

Selling your Project to Executives

Gina — Wed, 05 Jun 2019 13:30:57 +0000

Sometimes we have an idea for a project that we know is valuable and of benefit to the organization, but we can’t get it started. It seems no one is interested. In talking with clients, I often find that those great ideas don’t move forward because they haven’t sold the idea to the [...]

Achieve Strategic Goals

Gina — Wed, 29 May 2019 13:30:32 +0000

Launch Projects to Achieve those Goals

Once you have a strategy in place for your business, your next step is to focus on how you will achieve that strategy. This usually means the launch of projects, or initiatives, to achieve that strategy. We achieve strategic goals through projects that we launch within the [...]

3 Ways to Make Training Fun in the Workplace

Gina — Wed, 22 May 2019 13:30:14 +0000

While we can all agree that training in the workplace is about learning and improving skills to get work done, it can still be fun. Even as adults we want to have some fun. We want to enjoy learning sessions. We don’t want to sit there while someone drones on and on about [...]

The Value of Building Relationships for HR Professionals

Gina — Wed, 08 May 2019 13:30:38 +0000

Strong relationships are essential in order to accomplish goals. As HR Professionals it is necessary to engage all levels of employees in the organization in achieving the goals of the organization. While certainly this responsibility also falls on the direct managers of employees, HR is in a unique position because they are engaged [...]

What’s Up with My Employees?? Part 2

Gina — Wed, 24 Apr 2019 13:30:55 +0000

Read Part 1 of this client short story.

When we left off with Sarah, she was going to do some research to understand what was going on. In this posting, we’ll share Sarah’s findings and next steps outlined with the organization.

Sarah’s Findings

Sarah met with a number of employees [...]

What’s Up with My Employees?? Part 1

Gina — Wed, 17 Apr 2019 05:30:59 +0000

A Client Short Story

One of Abudi Consulting Group’s clients, a SVP of Human Resources (HR) in a retail organization of approximately 800 employees, has noticed that employees seem increasingly disinterested in the organization and the work. The SVP of HR, who we’ll call Sarah, shared this story with me during one of our quarterly [...]

Build a Plan for Team Building

Gina — Wed, 10 Apr 2019 13:30:19 +0000

When you have decided to commit to team building on your team, build out your action plan to plan for team building. In this way, you’ll be sure that team building will be more than just some fun for the team (though that is important too!) but will also address the reasons why you are [...]

5 Fun Ways to do Team Building

Gina — Wed, 03 Apr 2019 13:30:59 +0000

Team building is essential for any team. Team building enables for getting to know colleagues and co-workers which improves collaboration and reduces conflicts in the workplace. Team building bridges the gap between the generations and improves communications.

Here are five (5) fun ways to enable for team building within your group:

Do karaoke together: Whether [...]