Have you ever lost a great employee? Guess what? The process of quitting happened months before they handed you their resignation letter. Leaving a job starts with moments of discontent, it’s the events that erode emotional engagement. It’s kind of like falling out of love with your car. You.
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Do you want people to care about your cause, idea or product? A client of mine, we’ll call him Don, was struggling to get funding for his startup. He had a promising software product; he’d done a test market; he had the data. People liked his presentation. Yet he.
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What’s more important? Getting the order out today, or creating a culture that will enable you to do 5,000 orders next year? The answer of course, is both. One task is urgent, the order today, it’s easy to understand what to do. The other issue is important, creating an.
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To tattle or not to tattle, that is the question my friends. When you see a co-worker making errors, how do you handle it? Ignore it? Bring it to their attention right away? Sit on it? Or do you tell the boss? The answer is, it depends? Here are.
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Have you ever done an employee survey? How honest were you? Did the questions even scratch the surface of the true feelings you have about your job? Organizations increasingly concerned about the cost of turnover and lack of employee engagement often lean on employee surveys to get insights into.
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As a leader, it’s frustrating to hear whining. In response, leaders often say, “Don’t come to me with a problem, come to me with a solution.” It sounds good in theory, but telling your people they can only come to you with answers, keeps you from hearing valuable feedback. .
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Have you ever experienced death by PowerPoint? How about your boss asking you to read the endless business plan? We’ve all been there. A well-intentioned person puts pen to paper, or hands to keyboard, and they cram everything they know into a document. Their intention is to share important.
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Have you ever heard a manager complaining about their employees? The complaints run from “I can’t get good people” to, “My people don’t care enough” to, “I can’t keep good people.” Next time you hear someone complaining, consider this perspective. The true measure of a leader is their people..
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What would you do if you knew your boss was making a bad decision? We’ve all been there. How did you respond? Do you sit back and watch it. Or do you step outside your comfort zone and address it? My father once told me, “No matter what your.
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If I tell you someone is helpful, what image crosses your mind? Most people associate the word helpful with jobs like a crossing guard, or a traveler’s aide at the airport. Helpful people are nice to be around, but they’re rarely in charge, or so the thinking goes. When.
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