This is a guest post by Paul Ratoff, author and Certified Management Consultant. In a tight game’s closing seconds, a coach will huddle his players and draw up a play designed to result in a winning play and victory. But, if just one teammate is disengaged, the play can go awry and the team will fall short of
Technology makes it possible for us to work around the clock, and it has become standard operating procedure to read and respond to emails after business hours. While many leaders love the idea of hardworking employees always “being on,” the practice is having harmful effects on worker well-being, according to a new study, “Exhausted But Unable
How much are bad time-management habits and distractions costing your organization? Check out this infographic created by SurePayroll to gain insight on productivity problems that could be plaguing your new team. Then learn what you can do to improve both your personal productivity and the productivity of your employees.
Creative Disruption has long been used in the marketing world to break existing patterns of behavior of a target audience, and smart CEO’s are now using this technique to change the pattern of behavior in their leaders. National business consultant Lorraine Grubbs along with CEO Frank Granara of Boston-based General Insulation recently used creative disruption
This is a guest post by Tom Cox, leadership consultant, author and speaker. One of the most common, and tragic, causes of poor work performance is that everybody assumes the definition of “good work” is obvious, so nobody ever seeks explicit agreement on what it is. When the boss (that’s you) doesn’t define “good work,” things
On Tuesday, we shared advice for managing productivity-draining and creativity-killing complacency in the workplace. Today, we are going to talk about another productivity destroyer that is wreaking havoc on workplaces right now: summer. In most places across the U.S., the weather is hot, the sun is shining, and people are zoning out, dreaming of being on
This is a guest post from Jackie Dryden, co-author with Bethany Andell of Get Your Head Out of Your Bottom Line. Millennials – those people born in the early 1980s to the late 1990s – have something of a mixed reputation when it comes to work. Studies show that they aren’t loyal to employers so much
This guest post is from the General Leadership Blog, a blog that offers leadership perspective and conversation on character and integrity from senior military leaders. Credibility is arguably one of the more important soft skills a leader must possess. It encompasses so many of the harder skills that if you make your credibility a priority as a leader
You’re new to this whole management or leadership gig, and you may not yet know the ropes. However, you’ve been managed at some point, so you at least understand how a “good” or a “bad” manager acts. If you have ever dealt with the latter, you probably remember how miserable the bad manager made you. Review this infographic,
This is a guest post by Frank Granara and Lorraine Grubbs, co-authors of Beyond the Executive Comfort Zone: Outrageous Tactics to Ignite Individual Performance. Wake them up … shake them up … make them a team. As a new leader, bring a fresh perspective to your people by applying outrageous tactics to employee development. Step outside
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