If you have been following along with my last few blogs, you are now in the right mindset and you have become solution focused. Now it is time to do the thing most people stall on or just plain give up on. It is time to take action. Sometimes we may have a lack of …
In a previous Blog post, I wrote about the importance of starting out your day and staying locked into the right mindset. If you lose touch with the right mindset, you can fall into victim mode. This causes a person to focus on the problem(s) and just complain and point fingers somewhere else and feel …
The right mindset is not only important, but it should be set at the very beginning of your day. If you are not doing things for the right reason or can’t see yourself doing it, then it won’t happen. It’s the self-fulfilling prophecy. If we see ourselves failing or don’t believe it or think it …
While remote work and leading from a distance is certainly nothing new, many business leaders and entrepreneurs are experiencing this way of working for the first time, along with all of the challenges managing a team remotely can bring. And when it comes to time to deliver feedback, many are left wondering how to go about …
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As human beings, we strive to belong to a community. It’s simply in our nature. This inclination takes shape in a number of different ways, the most obvious being family and friends. But how we identify ourselves also plays a role and it’s a very fluid type of human behavior. Runners nod to other runners, Jeep drivers wave to …
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I am a huge Superman fan. You can actually look back over every age range in my life and see something related to Superman. In fact, I did not realize how much I was into Superman until my wife threw me a big surprise birthday party one year. She posted pictures of me all over …
“You are a unique person, just like everybody else!!” – Warren Miller The differences which make us unique and special also make it inevitable that at some point there will be a conflict, clash or situation arise in the work environment. If these situations are not handled quickly and properly, they can escalate, fester, cause …
Effective time management and productivity are important skills for a leader. In my blog post ‘5 Ways to Increase Your Personal Productivity,’ I introduced you to some techniques to help you improve your productivity. The reality is though that even with increased productivity levels sometimes the work or tasks are just too much for you …
As leaders we are faced with difficult situations often, and quite honestly most of us try to just ignore them. We think to ourselves, “Maybe if we just look the other way it will just go away or fix itself.” That strategy does not work when it comes to dealing with our people. Ignoring the …
Tough Conversations: A Leader’s Guide to Putting Out Fires Read More »
I hear all of the time from employees that their supervisor or manager only says something to them when they do something wrong and they are usually just yelling. The number one reason an employee leaves his job is due to his direct supervisor, and we know turnover is costly. It is not only costly …
