Why are you holding on?
Summary: Do you have that one person you have kept in your company for too long? What are you doing to change it? Here’s a way to get started. Do you find yourself looking at one of your people and saying “why are they still here?” or “he is more trouble than he’s worth”, then […]
Is a bad apple spoiling the bunch?
Summary: One person with a negative attitude in your business can infect everyone. Tips on what to do about it. The one aspect of human behavior that still confuses me is how infectious negative behavior is compared to positive. Why is it that rumors, bad behavior or criticism can spread throughout a company at lightning speed whereas […]
When They Won’t Play Nice
Summary: Frustrated by two employees not working well together, try one of these three tactics. What a frustrating situation – you have two great employees who do their jobs wonderfully and the customers love them EXCEPT they can get along with anyone else. Arg! The real frustration is because they need to work together.
Focus on You!
Summary: In business we tend to focus on the business, clients, employees, etc. take a break now and focus on you! Yes, focus on you. Usually I ask you to reflect on how you can contribute to a better workplace, be a better boss and overall improve your leadership. Today, I want you to be […]
Trick or Treat your Office
Summary: Take the trick or treat approach at the office to boast your people. My kids are young so they are always excited about Halloween. Picking out costumes and dressing as their favorite characters. More than that what they really enjoy is going house to house and getting candy. No strings attached! After all, at […]
Why should I care about leadership?
Summary: We are all good managers – we get things done. So why is leadership important? Let’s face it -we are all good managers. When it comes to a process, project, or reporting – we get it done. Getting the work completed, presentable and above satisfactory we are wonderful, fantastic even. So why should we […]
Reform your micromanaging ways
Summary: Are you micromanaging your employees? If so, you are creating human robots. Reform your ways! Have you found yourself giving a person a job to do and then following up constantly? You know what I mean, at each step along the way you are asking questions or you go back to them and say […]
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 […]
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!