Is the weather affecting your business?
Summary: Is the weather affect your business, your employee productivity – you may not be able to change the weather but here are some ways to get passed it. Today it has been raining and for me that means I have a tendency to move a little slower. I know, not a good thing to […]
Preschool Leadership
Summary: In Preschool we learned about listening, using our words and sharing. These same lessons apply to leadership. I have to admit, this weeks blog post was inspired by youngest son…who is preschool. How did the inspiration come about? As most four year olds, he is learning how to interact more with his “friends” (code […]
Did you create the monster?
Summary: Did you inadvertently create a monster employee? Want to change it? With persistence and patience you can with 2 easy steps. I heard this comment last week, it wasn’t the first time and I’m sure it won’t be the last, “she can do whatever she wants”. This is usually meant in a bad way, […]
Where do you eat lunch?
Summary: Get to know your employees casually over a meal in the lunchroom and be a “regular person” who employees can approach. No, I’m not looking for restaurant suggestions. Actually I would like to recommend a great place to you! The best part is that it is close by (no matter where you live or […]
Will they leave?
It’s the end of summer which for many of us means the end of the slower days of business. Labor Day also marks the end of a summer schedule, going back to school and business increasing.
Create a Complaint Free Zone
One of the things about having to work with other people is their different personalities. Some as eternally optomistic, others are all business, others are fun-loving, and then there are those who rarely have a nice thing to say. There is nothing worse than only hearing complaints, actually it can be just down right draining!
What do employees expect from you?
There are many books about leadership and managing people – former/current leaders are always willing to share their thoughts on what made them best. While each has their own philosophy, style, and passion – it all comes down to three things.
Are you prepared for Mother Nature?
A couple of days ago here in the Midwest we experienced a strange storm, within 15 minutes we had 70 mph winds and heavy rain – then poof! it was gone. Within those 15 minutes over 800,000 homes and businesses lost power for a day or more (including me). The storm made it’s way across the area […]
The “How” of Employee Counselling
The past several weeks we have been talking about Employee Counselling – when to do it and why. What hasn’t been discussed is the “how”. In reality when you think about it, the “how” is really what can trip people up.
4 Strikes and You’re Out!
Do you use progressive discipline (or counselling as I prefer to call it)? Do you know how? I prefer to call it counselling as the purpose behind the conversation is to let a person know that improvement is needed and you would like to see them succeed. Discipline sounds to me more punitive and you […]