Be Happy or Learn How to Maintain, Day Seven
Do something every day to get you closer to your dreams. I heard Oprah say this once and it struck my core. I, like many others, left college with these ideologies of what my career was going to be. Hmmm. Ten years later, I discovered what it was I was supposed to be doing [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Be Happy or Learn How to Maintain, Day Four
Set a goal. I have yet to work for a company that didn’t have some kind of contest going that was meant to improve morale (and sometimes performance). In an effort to engage employees and show them some perks, department heads create these challenges for their staff. Well, what keeps us from setting up [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )hope for the new leaders
Early in my management career, I worked for a company in the telephone sales department. A small group of 20, my staff took inbound and made outbound calls with the goal of selling cellular phones. We never met with clients and in the early nineties, when cellular phones looked like small travel cases; it was a [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Make Sure Your Employees Trust You–Or Else – Forbes.com
Make Sure Your Employees Trust You–Or Else Ken Blanchard and Terry Waghorn, 03.23.09, 05:48 PM EDT Your business needs a higher purpose, and you need to convey it through open communication. Otherwise you’re in trouble. How do you keep people trusting you at a time like this? Trust is essential in our lives, and it [...]
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It could very well be that one of the reasons we are experiencing such a profound economic downturn is that there are so few effective organizational leaders. In the 22 years spent in corporate America, I have only one experience to reference an example of genuine, authentic leadership. Even more, I was motivated to earn [...]
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