Timing is everything There’s a reason for the popular phrase, Timing is everything. Saying happy birthday or anniversary, means so much more on the actual day. Paying bills on time certainly matters. When it comes to managing, timing can be
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Your meetings will define you We’re big proponents of effective meetings, whether they’re one-on-one or as a team. Meetings done properly help to provide clear communication, contribute to the decision-making process, inspire innovation, and bring the team together. Unfortunately, as we all
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How do I motivate my team? With thousands of books, seminars, workshops, and training about motivation, one would think that motivating your team would no longer be an issue. Being that the question keeps coming up, could it be that managers
Read more →I heard a comment the other day on sports radio of all places. “Do you inspire greatness or protect lousy?” It’s a great question for all managers and leaders. Are your actions and words helping the best on your team
Read more →Have you ever moved on to a new job or a different position in your organization or with a new company only to realize how unhappy and unproductive you were in the old job? It’s interesting that many of us
Read more →I read an article the other day about a police department in Maryland giving away a $1 bill to drivers who have all occupants wearing a seat belt. Not wearing a seat belt? They’ll give you informational literature and maybe
Read more →Conventional wisdom says you should dump all you don’t want to do onto your best people while the paycheck collectors keep on collecting. We’ve never been accused of being conventional and we know this is a sign of a manager
Read more →Take a minute to read the attached article titled “What’s Better Than a Big Fat Paycheck”. Many of the things in the article seem familiar to what we’ve discussed over the years… Things like your goals, your attitude, loving what
Read more →One of the easiest and most valuable things you can do as a manager is to recognize an employee for a job well done. You should be looking for specific things you can recognize an employee for on a daily
Read more →Our most popular blog posting over the past two months has been a post called “Motivating Your Staff”. In fact, this post has received almost twice as many views as the second most popular post. Our training sessions on motivation
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