Posts Tagged ‘Leadership’
5 Ways for Leaders to Influence Organizational Culture
Leaders have a huge influence on organizational culture. In fact, you probably have more influence than you realize, and sometimes this can bite you if you are not conscious of how your words and actions impact others in your company. If you are having issues establishing a strong organizational culture, you may want to look…
Read MoreHow Small Businesses Can Harness Millennial Power
Millennials; they’re a huge group, constantly dialed into their phones, and constantly lamenting about their student loans. They’re also extremely talented, and notorious for job hopping. As a working millennial, I’ve personally hopped through eleven jobs in the past nine years. Some of them were part-time gigs while I went to school, others were full-time…
Read More10 Clues That You Aren’t a Leader
I really know what makes you a leader. I’ve seen dozens of quotes and hundreds of articles, and I took a course on leadership in business school. But leadership depends so much on context and style that it’s hard to make any universal statements that aren’t just empty clichés. What I do know, though, is…
Read More5 Proven Ways to Build and Manage Great Teams
A team is a group of people who come together towards a common goal. In any given organization, there must be a functional team to work to run effectively. In as much as people are employed as individuals, there are certain tasks that require people to work together as a team. In these instances, the…
Read MoreAre You Coping Well with an Ever-Changing Workforce?
In the past, employees would often commit to one company for many years and work their way up the career ladder. However, the working world has changed and has welcomed the rise of millennial workers, who are simply not ready to commit to one business for the next 20 years. Instead, they will spend time…
Read MoreMaximizing Staff Engagement and Productivity at Meetings
At one point or another, we’ve all had the pleasure of attending a painfully unproductive meeting. Most businesses have far too many meetings and we’re just not very effective at them. We may be ‘at work’ but we’re usually not achieving very much at these gatherings of weary-eyed mortals. The truth is, many meetings unnecessary…
Read MoreSoaring to Success: How to Build a Winning Small Business Team
When Oakland Athletics general manager Billy Beane assembled a contending Major League Baseball team, he gained lots of notoriety for signing players using a strategic analysis of their statistics that had never been done before. Mixing younger players with older veterans made the A’s a winning team. Building a small business team has lots of…
Read More3 Ways to Avoid Common Hiring Mistakes When Starting Out
If you’ve just started a new business, you probably have a lot on your plate. Besides the obligatory 3 a.m. panic attacks, of course, you’ve also got to spend a good chunk of each week staring blankly at your bank statements. There are hundreds of decisions to second-guess, and lots of potential failure to contemplate.…
Read MoreFirst Be Consistent, Then Become Great!
I recently read an article “Consistency Is Far Greater Than Rare Moments of Greatness” by Scott Ginsberg The Nametag Guy. In it he makes the point “Because ultimately, consistency is greater than rare moments of greatness. And people only give you credit for that which they see you do consistently.” It brought to mind that even…
Read MoreFocus on Your People’s Strengths?
There are a number of thoughtful articles suggesting we get better results in developing our people by focusing on their developing their strengths, not “fixing” them, or criticizing their weaknesses. A recent HBR article, Developing Employees’ Strengths Boosts Sales, Profit, and Engagement, presents compelling data about organizations focusing on strengths based interventions (I guess that’s HBR…
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