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 […]
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 […]
Do YOU have a job description?
Summary: As the business owner you need to have a job description in order to stay focused on your priorities and allow your employees to do their work. This may sound like a strange question. After all, you are the boss so you are responsible for everything – right? In the big picture you […]
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!
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 […]
Does it really matter?
In a conversation last week I was asked “Does having good employees really made a difference?” Instead of answering directly, I asked a few questions instead. Follow along to see if you agree with me.
Put it in writing!
For the most part employees come to work with the best intentions and want to do good work. However, there are those occssions (or various occasions) when an employee needs to be corrected in their behavior. A question I get often is when talking to an employee about performance issues when should the conversation change from […]
Are you “blocked”?
This week’s post comes to you courtesy of “writer’s block”. I try to draw inspiration from everywhere some human resources related, some business related or some from questions from clients and friends. It appears lately all is working well – which is to be celebrated, after all that is my goal.