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Managing Employees

Are You Unknowingly Inhibiting Your Team Members from Doing Their Jobs?

Apr 6, 2018 By YEC

Results, results, results: When you’re in a position of leadership, this is probably the thing that occupies your mind and dictates your actions the most. However, as managers and leaders, we are responsible for so much more than just results. We’re responsible for the people we lean on to get them. There’s no such thing […]

Filed Under: People Skills Tagged With: Managing Employees, Ownership, Team

6 Management Mistakes That Will Kill Employee Motivation

Dec 13, 2017 By Susan Solovic

I was talking to an elementary school teacher the other day who works for a major school district. While there are many things she likes about her job, her list of complaints was pretty long. It made me wonder how many small business owners are making these same type of management mistakes. She told me […]

Filed Under: People Skills Tagged With: Managing Employees, Mistakes, Motivation, Team

Why Employees Need Guidelines Not Just Rules

Jun 30, 2017 By Bill Hogg

Rules are an essential part of any business. Rules are necessary to ensure we make intentional decisions. Rules are written to make sure people are treated equally and consistently. While there’s nothing wrong with this in principle, there are always going to be situations where a certain degree of flexibility is essential because people are […]

Filed Under: People Skills Tagged With: Employees, Leadership, Managing Employees

15 Tips That Excelerate Performance

May 5, 2017 By Bill Hogg

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 that you want repeated—those that ultimately create loyalty with your customer. Employees who receive regular recognition are happier in their […]

Filed Under: People Skills Tagged With: Feedback, Leadership, Managing Employees

Is Leadership Really About This?

Dec 16, 2016 By Dave Brock

I was stunned reading an article in Fast Company:  Five CEOs On The Skills It Takes To Land The Corner Office. The skills they identified were: How to say “No.” How to pitch. How to read financials. How to take criticism. Knowing how the work gets done. It’s amazing there was virtually no mention about effective leadership–that […]

Filed Under: Best Practices Tagged With: Culture, Leadership, Managing Employees

Tell-Tale Signs You Aren’t Ready to Manage Yet

Oct 24, 2016 By SmallBizClub Contributor

Small businesses don’t grow by themselves. Of course, that’s why you’re expanding. But stepping up to a management role requires a new and unique set of abilities. Sheer determination will only take you so far. For this next phase of growth, exceptional communication and an intuitive ability to respond to difficult situations are needed. A […]

Filed Under: People Skills Tagged With: Employees, Managing Employees, Team

A Simple Test: Are We Managing Like Jerks?

Sep 29, 2016 By Dave Berkus

Are we who issue orders to associates or employees ever acting as jerks? We’d never like to think so, or we wouldn’t do it in the first place. If someone is saying “This is confusing to me,” when you’ve given an instruction or order, there are a number of ways to respond. Of course it […]

Filed Under: People Skills Tagged With: Leadership, Managing Employees, Personality

Is Management by Walking Around an Outmoded Fad?

Aug 15, 2016 By Dave Berkus

One of the CEOs I coach starts his day by walking the floor of his extended facility and checking in with managers and employees of the various departments, especially the call center. He tries to feel the pulse of the company by the intensity of motion, the metrics of backlog, and the stated problems brought […]

Filed Under: Best Practices Tagged With: Communication, Leadership, Managing Employees

3 Ways to Become Better at Managing People

Jul 13, 2016 By YEC

Managing people is no easy task. But no matter what business you’re in, you’re going to be working with people, and effectively managing them is critical to the success of your business. In over 10 years of being in business, I have had to do my own hiring, coaching and firing. In the process, I […]

Filed Under: People Skills Tagged With: Leadership, Managing Employees, Team

The Lion and the Ant: A Managerial Lesson

Jul 13, 2016 By Dave Berkus

This story has been making the rounds lately, and I confess that our research cannot find the source. So, with thanks to whomever created this great little parable, here it is: “Every day, a small Ant arrived at work early and started work immediately, she produced a lot and she was happy. The boss, a […]

Filed Under: People Skills Tagged With: Leadership, Managing Employees, Productivity

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