5 Ways to Bad Leadership
They are easy to do and implement – leaders have been doing it over and over again to successfully brand themselves a bad leader within days of assuming a new position. If you would like to duplicate this success for yourself – follow these simple instructions. Or if you prefer to be a good leader – follow these five tips.
To do or not to do…
Performance Reviews, Developmental Assessments, or whatever else you call it. That is the question. This is always an interesting topic and there is so much debate about what makes a good performance review, how to get the most out of the conversation with the employee and what to do with the review when done. If […]
Don’t forget your goals
It’s the new year, a chance to start again,and fill up a blank slate with your goals. However, goals have a tendency to go the way of resolutions. We start of with great intentions, wonderful ambitions, and lofty goals. Over time – maybe one week to one month – we focus on day-to-day items on […]
Show Me the Money
Do you remember that line from Jerry McGuire? Cuba Gooding’s character was motivating Tom Cruise to get him more money for playing football with his current team. Cuba had Tom Cruise screaming into the phone “SHOW ME THE MONEY” among other things.
HR Basics – Departures
It happens…people will leave your business or company. How you deal with those who leave your employ will speak volumes about you and your company. You don’t want good employees to leave. However, you can’t wait until the negative attitude employee walks out of the door. Dealing with a person’s departure from your business can […]
HR Basic: Recruitment
You have decided to hire a new employee, you are growing or replacing someone. Yeah! Then the dread sets in about the process, you may loose a little confidence in your ability to find the right person or you rush through it and wonder why the new person doesn’t work. All this can be avoided […]
HR Basic: Coaching
When you think of coaching – what image comes to mind? Is it the sports coach who is giving you direction from the sidelines? Is it a person who spend one-on-one time with to improve – either personally or professionally? Maybe it’s the career coach who helped you find a job? Or the business coach […]
HR Basics – Coaching
I know when people think of coaching they think of one-on-one time with a person discussing what they want they want to achieve and how to get their. In the traditional sense this is true but I propose a variation. Coaching to include training, developing goals, delivering expectations, on-the-spot and long-term. Before your head starts […]
HR Basic: Open Communication
Here is a topic that generates an interesting debate. What makes it interesting is what constitutes open communication. Most people will agree on the why it is needed, however its doing it and considering the what that makes it complicated. Try to Google “Open Communication in the Workplace” and you will get over 500,000 web […]
HR Basic: Listening
Remember how your parents would constantly say “listen to me” or “what did I say?”. Well that advice is back to haunt you. We all think we are good listeners, after all we have two ears. I would say in practice we don’t hear everything everyone says or understands what they are not saying. Why […]