The Power of Personality
As a Leader, Do You Comprehend the Power of Personality? Artists, painters, clothing designers, web designers, and many other professions need to understand the color pallet to be terrific at…
Keep Employees Psychologically Safe …
... Accept Them As Is “People will forget what you said, forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” – Maya Angelou Your employees…
Effective Leadership: Eliminate Negative Performance Reviews
Do managers or employees hate performance reviews worse? Has the performance review become a routine time waster? Are your performance reviews missing the mark of raising productivity and building loyalty?…
Ban Office Gossip? IMPOSSIBLE!
The BBC reporter on the other end of the line wanted to know if I thought you could ban office gossip. I told him it was impossible! Then he proceeded…
Eliminate the Bullying Manager’s Image
I was interested in an article in a recent post in theWall Street Journal on a new law proposed in New York allowing employees to sue a boss for bullying.…
Effective Conflict Resolution: Bury the Skeletons
Because team members are individuals first - with strong opinions - and team members second, disagreements and conflicts are to be expected as projects progress. Sometimes, conflicts are not talked…
Success: New Kid on the Team Rules
I grew up on a farm in Idaho where we had the ultimate retention policy: I couldn’t fire my brothers and sisters. As a kid, one of my chores was…
Success: Basics First, Then Fancy Moves
Like professional artists and athletes, taking action and moving your life forward to greater success is self-determination and involves mastery of the basics before fancy moves can be successful. For…