Posts Tagged ‘Leadership’
10 Tips to Keep Your Team Positive and Engaged
Keeping your team positive and engaged can be challenging. There will be times when it’s more difficult than others. Here are ten tips to help keep your team positive and focused on the task at hand: Your sales and customer service team are the primary customer contact for every business. What does their attitude say…
Read More7 Tips for Winning Brand Loyalty
Are your clients faithful to your brand? Or are you just another option in the saturated sea of product and service providers in your industry? One of the biggest (and arguably hardest) inbound marketing goals to achieve for your brand is the tiny area at the very bottom of your inbound marketing funnel right after…
Read MoreMake Your Training Engaging, Memorable, and Unexpected
“Fire Hose Training,” “Death by PowerPoint,” and “Data Dumping”—experiences we have either had, heard about or are (unwilling to admit) created. Training experiences don’t have to bore participating audiences and can be unexpected engaging and memorable experiences. So what does unexpected look like? It’s Not About You – It’s About Your Audience You often know…
Read MoreDeal with Setbacks in a Positive Way
Losing doesn’t eat at me the way it used to. I just get ready for the next play, the next game, the next season. -Troy Aikman Being a manager has its up and downs. There is no question about that. However, when you have a setback, you need to turn it around quickly. No one…
Read More5 Tips for Giving Constructive Feedback to Your Employees
Many managers cringe at the mention of giving feedback to their employees—most of them are usually trained to lead teams or manage resources, not give constructive feedback. This is a serious mistake that can cost a lot in the daily operation of a company. Managers who don’t know how to provide feedback to their employees…
Read MoreThe Examples We Set, Our People Are Watching
As managers and leaders, we create (consciously or unconsciously) dozens of “training” moments for our people, every day. Our people watch our every move, drawing conclusions about what they should be doing, how they should be behaving, where they should invest their time, and what their priorities are. What we do and how we act…
Read MoreThe 6 Types of Entrepreneur
Are you a world changer? An innovator? An opportunist or a jack of all trades? Maybe you’re a serial entrepreneur—or are you actually a wantrepreneur? These are the six major types of entrepreneurs out there, and you likely fall into one of these categories. No one type is better than the other, although the wantrepreneur…
Read More7 Tips on Building Better Connections with Your Team
Entrepreneurs need to be effective team leaders, since no one can transform an idea into a product and a business without some help. Unfortunately many founders I work with as a mentor are experts on the technical side, but have no insight into leading a team. But fortunately, team building is a skill that can…
Read MoreEngage and Honor Employees for a Happy and Trustworthy Brand
When Your Business Outgrows Your Skills
