What Good is a Positive Attitude?
What good is a positive attitude? It makes a big difference! I’m not talking Pollyanna-type optimism, but a just positive leaning. The answer is better performance. As the leader, your attitude is your approach to a situation. It is the way you look at your environment. If your attitude is too optimistic, you may fail […]
Optimize Your Workforce Talent
People – they are your most expensive and powerful business assets. Optimize your workforce talent and you create skilled leaders, dream teams, and productive and loyal employees. That will launch your business to new heights! Optimizing your workforce talent helps you situate people in the right places, at the right times, for the right business […]
Don’t Follow the Golden Rule!
Here’s a lesson I learned early on – don’t follow the golden rule! As a young manager, I wanted to reward my employees because they reached a lofty sales goal. I decided a staff party would be a fun way to engage and recognize everyone. You should know that I enjoy organizing and planning parties, […]
How to Get Your Confidence On
It is one of those traits that empowers you when you have it and undermines you when you don’t. You perform better when you feel self-confident, and your team performs better when members feel confident in you and each other. So it’s important to know how to get your confidence on. If you lack it, […]
A Counterintuitive Guide to Improvement
When you think about improvement, do you focus on weaknesses? Here’s a counterintuitive (and much more rewarding) guide to improvement. Ask most people what about their lives they’d like to improve and you’ll usually get a litany of their weak points. They want to improve their problems with their business or personal relationships, careers, weight, […]
Aspirations, Not Resolutions
Many business leaders have given up on New Year’s Resolutions. Why? Studies show that goals don’t work, so I recommend you try aspirations, not resolutions. They say the top reasons for failed resolutions are things like a lack of consequences, a lack of specificity, being too big, not enough external support, not writing them down, […]
Speedy Year-End Leadership Review
My clients usually conduct a review of their people every year. But to really get the flock flying in formation and ready for the year ahead, take time for a quick year-end leadership review at your business. Call a meeting and facilitate a discussion that reflects on and reviews everyone’s take on the past year. […]
Great Leaders Give Presents of Presence
The greatest holiday gift or year-end bonus might not come in a package. Great leaders give presents of their presence – and they do it all year long. Employees won’t always remember what you gave them, but they’ll remember how you made them feel. Be present. Practice mindful leadership. Don’t treat employees like employees – treat them […]
Listen With Your Eyes
Listening with your eyes as well as your ears is so important. Whether you’re the boss or the employee, the parent or the spouse, you’d better be a good listener, but how do you do it? To really understand, listen with your eyes. Remember what you’ve learned about active listening? You make eye contact, nod, […]