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What Is Positive Thinking?
What Is Positive Thinking? Before putting the powers of positive thinking to work in your personal and professional life, you must first understand exactly what positive thinking is. By definition, the word positive means dealing with matters of fact; expressed...
A Corporate Board Member’s Toughest Job – Setting Company Leadership
A Corporate Board Member's Toughest Job - Setting Company Leadership Being a part of a company's board sounds like a daunting job, and it truly is. And while it may be extremely tough to do, the simplest job lies here - hiring and monitoring the leadership teams,...
Two Things You Need To Do For Your Millennial Employees
Two Things You Need To Do For Your Millennial Employees Millennials in 2019 are ages 23-38 and their population is larger than the Generation X demographic that came before them. This next generation of managers and leaders are eager and energetic. They are just as...
I Often Find Myself Overcommitted. What Can I Do Differently?
I Often Find Myself Overcommitted. What Can I Do Differently? Overcommitted is an interesting term I hear often. Use of the term and your underlying assumptions may be a problem. The verb "commit" means "to obligate or pledge oneself", so you may have pledged your...
Do This Every Day To Be A Good Boss
Do This Every Day To Be A Good Boss A good boss can become something much more than just a boss to their employees. A good boss can leave a life-long impact both in the workplace and outside of the workplace. There are a couple of easy tasks you can do at least once a...
3 Reasons Why Our Leaders Are In Trouble
3 Reasons Why Our Leaders Are In Trouble A surprising majority of people in the workplace believe the world is currently in a leadership crisis. People in positions of power seem less and less competent to lead and more and more arrogant about the positions they hold....
Tell Your Company’s Story To Recruit The Right Talent
Tell Your Company's Story To Recruit The Right Talent It can be difficult for small business owners to sell potential employees on the company. While brands such as Google and Amazon have recruits lining up off of name-power alone, your small business will not have...
How Business Leaders Can Focus On The ‘Why’
How Business Leaders Can Focus On The 'Why' As you get caught up in the day-to-day business, feeling like you're wading through numbers and spreadsheets, it's easy to lose sight of the "why." It's not surprising that those who work with a meaning behind it are more...
The True Key To Workplace Productivity
The True Key To Workplace Productivity In order to entice the most skilled employees, you need to stay on the cutting edge of workplace trends. We'll discuss some ways the workplace is changing and what you can do about it. You can make your workplace more job seeker...
Three Ways Leaders Can Become Influencers
John Maxwell famously says, “Leadership is Influence.” Those who can effectively influence others are acting as leaders. But are all methods of influence appropriate for leaders? I may influence your decisions by giving you false or misleading information—is that kind...
The Costly Gift of Employee Feedback
“I will not offer a gift that costs me nothing.” The biblical story of King David tells of a time when one of his subjects offered to freely give him the wood and oxen for a sacrificial offering to God (2 Samuel 24:24). David refused because a gift that did not cost...
The Ideal Leadership Personality (Do you have it?)
Which personality is best suited to leadership? Would you say it’s the assertive, confident, won’t-back-down Driver (high D)? Or is it the charismatic, empowering, can-do Influencer (high I)? Or maybe you see long-term success for the steady, unflappable, persevering...
Leveraging Your Strengths
Donald Clifton of the Gallup organization helped the world to realize that we get a greater return from developing our strengths than from trying to fix our weaknesses. That’s a powerful insight that shifts the focus for leadership development: emphasize your...
Using DISC for Your Virtual Team
How do you build team spirit if you are not physically in the same space? According to a 2015 Gallup study, 37% of employees report having worked remotely. Technology allows us to do business from a home office, a hotel room, or anywhere there is cell service or...
How to Identify the Right Candidate for the Job
“That’s part of our problem right there. We don’t have any Implementers.” I was sitting with the president reviewing graphs of his managers during the hiring process. Most of the sections around the group wheel had at least one employee in them: a couple of...
Coaching Employees for Success
You’ve probably noticed the trend towards mentoring and coaching employees. In my work, I see more and more companies moving away from employee evaluations and towards a coaching/mentoring model. Instead of rating everyone on a 5-point scale, leaders are...
How to Build Trust on Your Team
When we launched the Stress Quotient last year to identify and measure stress at work, we learned that many people wrestle with trust issues on their teams. Trust is like the oil that lubricates the moving parts of a machine. When trust is present on a team,...
Why Your People Can’t Hear What You’re Saying
Two senior managers had just resolved their long-standing conflict, and the whole office was breathing a sigh of relief. The tension had backed the president of the company into a corner, and he feared that one or both would leave. “Why do you need that?”...