Human Resources IQ

During the rocky economic times, organizations are in dire need of finding ways to cut costs while remaining profitable and achieving their organizational goals. However, most organizations cut training as a way to save money. While the continuous education within organizations may come to a halt, business schools are seeing an influx of attendance within their executive education program. The NYU Stern School of Business, along with additional business schools, has designed a new course geared toward executives on how to leverage leadership, implement change and create solutions to issues that arise because of the rapidly changing economic environment. Katherine Mehr speaks with Anat Lechner, Clinical Associate Professor of Management and Organizations at the NYU Stern School of Business, who designed the executive-ed course titled Leadership IQ.

Meetings are vital in every business environment. However, it is very easy to lead a meeting astray and lose site of the purpose. To conduct an efficient and productive meeting, the leader must effectively communicate the intention of the meeting to the participants and keep everyone on target. Katherine Mehr speaks with Gregorio Billikopf, Labor Management Farm Advisor at the University of California on how to create and execute a meeting that produces results.