You want great managers? Focus on the fundamentals.
The message here to managers and those responsible for training or developing great managers is that mastery and consistent application of the basics is the best way to build a leadership capability that can deliver for your business.
Hey HR Execs: Do You Know What Your Employees Are Thinking?
Kenexa’s research shows the HR function has become too distanced from the employee population, leading to a misunderstanding of where the employee mindset truly is.
Is Your Technology Working for Your Team?
Is your technology working for your team as much as your team is working for you? If you have any doubt that the lines between your team's personal and professional lives are being seriously blurred read this blog.
The Olympic Opportunity for Managers
Much like an Olympic athlete must train to become best in the world. A manager must train to connect employees to the big picture and take the organization to the next level.
I really like him! Let’s hire him!
All too often, we hire new people with great excitement and anticipation only to see our hopes for success fade away with a resignation, dismissal or, even worse, lingering underperformance.
90% of Life Is Just Showing Up
Many times, an organization's frontline are not even meeting customer expectations on the brand promises made by the company. Are your people authentically deliverig on your brand promise?
Lots to Do When You’re a Manager – Make Your Life Easier
Learning to be a good coach is one of the biggest challenges – helping that next level of people find their own voices, their productivity, and yes, even their happiness in their roles and responsibilities.
Managing People and Results? Self-Care Should be Top Priority
NOLS’ guiding principles and 1,200+ hours of skill development helped me return as a more resourceful and a stronger judge of priorities. Yet, the greatest benefit seems to be my renewed focus on self-care.
Frontline Managers – Your Weak Link?
If your managers don't see their main job as "leading people," your company won't get where it wants to go.
Managers Can Make or Break Your Organization’s Strategy
If you're not investing in your managers you may be holding your organization back from making your strategies a success. Find out how to empower your managers to create phenomenal teams and boost employee engagement.
A Manager’s Greatest Plight – The Relentless Pursuit of More Time
Based on hundreds of conversations with managers, they all have one thing in common - they would give anything to have more time!
Managers Move Metrics
It’s hard to deny that managers play an important organizational role. But, proving it is a difficult task. This post discusses how Petco captured information that proves that managers move metrics.
Influencing Up
Best practices in "managing up" to ensure better effectiveness in launching initiatives.
Hey Trainers! Stop Shooting All of Us in the Foot! Part 2
It's time for us trainers to stop just following orders and become stewards of good business decision-making!
Hey Trainers! Stop Contradicting Yourselves! Part 1
Trainers - Do you want to sit at the Strategy table, then stop just taking orders.
Working Together is Success – Taking on a Team Attitude
If you want people to “play” with others they need to understand the rules of the game! That means engaging individuals in how their efforts impact their team’s success and how their team’s success contributes to the overall achievements of the company.
Roots of Engagement Issue Three – People Want to Go on a Meaningful Journey
People want to go on a meaningful journey. There is more drama and adventure in companies than on a reality show, but it’s paved over by sterilized PowerPoints. How will you turn your strategy into an adventure story?
Managers matter the most when it comes to engagement!
When allocating training dollars, don’t overlook your managers’ and supervisors’ needs. If they aren’t excellent people-leaders, what are the consequences for your employees? Here’s why you need to focus one step up from the frontline.
Managers: A lesson from Facebook
What do Facebook and good managers have in common? More than quizzes and Farmville! The “human touch” makes a difference at work, virtually or in person. Read our latest blog!
Six Ways to Lead Change, Build Teams, and Make It Personal
Do you want to lead change, build teams, and grow your company? Then you’ll need to know six actions that will increase your chances for doing it and doing it well. Here’s a hint: You have to start with what’s real.
From 1776 to 2011: Good Strategies Never Go Out of Date
I’ve always admired George, and I’m continually impressed by the forward-thinking leadership tenets he demonstrated to first his troops and then to his new country.
The “Manager of the Future” – the Future is Now
What does “success” mean to your employees? The answer may surprise you!
2011: Leading in the New Year
There is a saying, “Hope springs eternal”, are you optimistic about your company's future?
Strategic Approaches to Onboarding
Recent research on the impact of effective onboarding programs shows that it can help accelerate the assimilation of new employees into the workplace and reduce turnover.
