People Skills
Leadership Skills: 5 Expectations Your Team Has for You as a Leader
Leaders help create powerful, cohesive teams that enable organizations to achieve their targets. Part of being a great leader is understanding what the members of your team expect from you. By understanding their expectations you…
7 Rules for Turning Business Conflicts into Win-Win
Many entrepreneurs are not prepared for conflict, or actively avoid it. Their vision, passion, and focus are so strong that they can’t imagine someone disagreeing, much less fighting them to the death. But the reality…
15 Tips That Excelerate Performance
Developing loyal customers begins with developing a team who understand the importance of customer-focused service and care about the total customer experience. A key building block of developing high performance employees is recognizing the behaviors…
4 Powerful Ways to Motivate Your Team
Inspiring leaders recognize that money is not the main reason people come to work. Sure, it’s the primary motivator for why we work—but once the concept of comparable pay for comparable work has been addressed, it fails…
5 Success Practices of Ultra-Effective Business Teams
It takes an effective team to attract and serve a community in business these days. With real-time online reviews and feedback via the Internet, and instant relationships via social media, a voice from the top…
6 Powerful Ways to Invest in Your Employees
Larger companies and unicorn startups have ample resources to invest in their employees. From professional development classes and career coaches to flexible schedules and free catered lunches, these businesses go the extra mile to retain and empower employees. While…
How to Make Your Employees Feel Valued and Engaged
We all like to feel special. No matter where we work or what we do, we like knowing that our opinions, skills and expertise are needed. When employees feel valued, they’re more likely to put…
Surround Yourself with a Winning Team
Sports gives us such a great window into the rest of our lives. Over four quarters, nine innings, two halves, or whatever frame it uses, a game is a miniature lesson. The coaches and players…
4 Low-Cost Benefits That Majorly Boost Employee Happiness
Does your company offer free snacks in the lunchroom, long out-of-office lunch breaks, and gift cards to local restaurants as productivity rewards? If you answered yes, but can’t figure out why your employees are still…
How to Successfully Deal with Workplace Fatigue
There’s no question that worker training programs are a sound investment. The only question is what elements should be included to provide the most benefits to employees while increasing company profits. Advances in modern technology…