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What Do I Do About Succession Planning?
No one can be certain what tomorrow will bring, so it is critical that every entrepreneur or manager has a successor in place. This is typically a two-step process: First, you have to find the right individual; then you have to provide training to ensure the person is prepared to handle the demands of the role.
Work vs. Life: How to Achieve a Better Balance
Work. Life. It’s the war of the worlds. At least, it seems like it. You work all day, and it never seems like you get a break—even when you kick your feet up on the coffee table at home. You’re stressed out, and you’re not getting good sleep.
How to be a Clear Communicator
To the extent that one shares meaning with another, the two parties communicated. Anyone familiar with the academic side of communication can tell you, it’s very difficult for any two people, much less groups, to accurately convey meaning to one another.
Does Your Personality Type Affect Your Business?
A group with different creative styles is beneficial when managed properly, since diversity in all forms brings about new ideas and innovations…
5 Steps to Building a Culture of Communication
It’s important to understand the gravity of effective communication in business, then build a culture around it. Putting great communication at the center of your business is the greatest way to ensure success.
10 Tips to Create More Powerful Employee Engagement, Part 2
It’s essential that your team members know what’s expected of them. When they start, generally they’re given a job description but that’s not enough. Clear expectations set the standards and means there’s no confusion and everyone is working towards the same goal.
Great Leaders Take Responsibility
I have seen time and again how the committed take responsibility for their actions. In our high-litigation culture, there’s always someone else to blame. It can be easy to point the finger at suppliers, underlings, partners, and managers that just can’t seem to get things right.
Everything Begins with Principles
Instead of talking about principles, we spend a lot of time talking about rules: “Do this, do it this way, don’t do that.” When our rules don’t cover everything, we’re lost. We don’t know what to do. Generally, the reaction is to create more rules.
Characteristics of an Effective Team
Whether it’s a band, a sports franchise or a company, chemistry is what makes teams great. Much of modern business thinking is centered on understanding what makes great teams tick. More often than not, effective teams share the following five characteristics.
Doing the Right Thing When No One Else is Watching
Integrity: Sometimes we wonder if it exists anywhere anymore. The news can make us so jaded that we’re surprised when we hear that someone has actually done the right thing.
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