Posts Tagged ‘Leadership’
8 Traits of Resilient Female Leaders
Resiliency is an incredibly useful trait to have, especially in today’s culture and society. Resilient women don’t get angry or give in to despair when challenged by a setback.
Read More 5 Questions to Manage Profits
I am often asked, in my consulting practice, what it takes to be successful. That is a very difficult question to answer because success can be defined in many different ways.
Read More Why a Retreat is Good for Your Business
Small business owners can improve productivity by investing in a company retreat. A retreat is an opportunity to engender creativity—a time to remove your nose from the grindstone and lift your head up.
Read More How to Foster Productivity Through Communication and Transparency
I left the first company that I founded. My co-founder and I had different values, and without realizing it, we created two disconnected cultures within the same company.
Read More Understanding Priorities to Improve Customer Service
Yesterday I experienced one of the most common missteps of good customer service—ignoring customers to attend to “organizational” priorities.
Read More Cancelling One on Ones
As a company grows one on ones are critical. Show me a manager who doesn’t schedule regular one on one’s with her direct reports and I’ll show you a bad manager.
Read More 7 Ways to Build Collaboration and Trust into Your Culture
Do you want to build trust and cooperation in your organization? Then walk the talk. It may sound simple, but it’s one of the most effective ways to build trust internally and get people to support your vision.
Read More Let Your Expectations Be Known
Managing people requires a broad array of skills, but basic management skills are sometimes overlooked. Simply put, staff will not know what to do unless they are told what results are expected.
Read More 5 Signs an Employee Deserves a Promotion
As a manager, one of the hardest jobs you’ll ever have to do is select a person to promote. What if you choose the wrong person? What if you disrupt the positive atmosphere in the workplace?
Read More People Quit Their Managers, Not Their Jobs
Manager (noun): The person with the arcane power of either making a perceived “boring” job fun and fulfilling, or making a great job seem miserable and hollow.
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