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The Benefits of a Corporate Activity Day for Your Staff
People often enter team-building activities with feelings of trepidation, suspicion, and nervous intrigue. If you’ve ever sat in a circle of chairs while sporting an illegible name badge and peered across at a colleague with a droll smile, then you might sympathize with these negative perceptions.
Your Business Could Be Suffering Because You’re a Bad Boss
The high-level of stress entrepreneurs deal with often precludes them from seeing how they interact with their team members. If you’re a bad boss, not only do your employees suffer, but so does your business.
“Why Does My Boss Hate Me?”
Just about every company is trying to innovate these days. And change, even if it is designed to bring out the best in an organization can—often inadvertently—bring out the worst in us.
The 3 Struggles of a Professional Who Really Cares
When you honestly care, you’re going to face three kinds of obstacles. Press forward. Improve. Press forward. Improve. Don’t expect others to carry what is yours to carry. And don’t allow others to guilt you into carrying what is theirs.
Top Tips for Productive Delegation
How often do you find yourself complaining about how busy you are? Stop to think about it. Contrary to popular belief, work overload is not necessarily a badge of honor.
Problems with Staff Getting Along
Frequently you have to deal with staff members who do not get along. This is one of those things that is just part of human nature. However, you cannot ignore these problems because they will only get worse with time.
More on Receptivity and Worthiness Issues
We recently looked at why it can be so difficult to receive. When combining the many “scarcity messages” society provides us along with a lack of self-worth the results can be devastating. This to the point of consciously knowing we’ve earned the right to receive while subconsciously—and unconsciously—not allowing ourselves to do so.
Transactional Managers: Is This Old-School Approach Killing Your Company’s Productivity?
Which type of salesperson is more valuable? The one who follows the rules and accomplishes nothing, or the one who is so efficient and effective that the company can count on her to be successful no matter how long or hard she works?
What do Bosses Owe Their Employees?
When I was an Army officer, there were three things that you had to make sure you never screwed up for your soldiers: their pay, their food, and their mail. Why? It was, as they say, the very least you could do for them. As an employer, what do you absolutely have to get right for your people?
Top 10 Trust Inhibitors
Trust. It’s becoming a prevailing word in society. We know we need more, but where does one start? One important initial step is to identify some of the inhibitors. Check out this list and consider your team’s greatest current challenges. How can you and your company or family break through them?
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