Why Do You Promote Who You Promote?

You have an open leadership slot, now you need to fill it. As you look at the possible candidates, you see options, but it can be difficult to decide who to pick. And your experience says that those selections can be tricky. Before you make that decision and invite your pick into your office for

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Being Thankful for Criticism

Thanksgiving is Thursday, and today I am asking you to choose to be grateful for something that you may have never said “Thanks” for: criticism. Especially criticism that comes from your employees. When you are a new leader, I know it’s hard to hear that you aren’t doing well or that your ideas are flawed.

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Make Virtual Coaching More Effective

Of all the jobs a manager/leader has, the one that we often feel we could do better with is coaching. Study after study shows that’s the part of the gig we often feel gets ignored or isn’t done as well as we’d like. Your employees, especially those who work remotely, agree with you. So what

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4 Signs You Might Be a Micromanager

What does it mean to act “like a boss” in your opinion? Does it mean managing your employees every move or empowering them to find their own way? Does it mean setting a process you expect everyone follow implicitly or working with your team to find a system that works for everyone? Honestly, no one

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People Aren’t One Dimensional

Human beings are messy and amazing. We are multi-faceted, complex, ever-changing, and wear many hats in our lives. For years, people have created models and formulas to simplify and categorize people. And for all the value those efforts and models can yield, they fall short of being the magic pill that helps us communicate with,

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Why Are Some People So Negative? – Remarkable TV

The squeaky wheel gets the oil or so it goes. And while it seems like everyone is so negative these days, that’s not really the case. Unfortunately, the negative ones are often the loudest and have the biggest consequences as a result – increased stress and decreased productivity just to name a few! In this

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Integrity Is Not Optional

“It takes a lifetime to build a good reputation, but you can lose it in a minute.” —Will Rogers These days, we’re hearing so much about the integrity of our political and corporate leaders. But what does integrity mean? It means being honest, moral and ethical. It means doing what is right for the common

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Improve Team Productivity With 3 Attention Management Strategies

This is a guest post by Maura Nevel Thomas, an award-winning international speaker and trainer on productivity and work-life balance. As a new team leader, you’re faced with a challenge. Employee productivity is now at least in part, up to you. How will you increase your team’s productivity so you can continue to drive value

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Building Trust on Remote Teams

Trust is valuable for a team to be successful. And it is hard enough to build when people see each other and work together every day. It is perhaps even more valuable when those people work remotely. More valuable, but even harder to create and maintain. Therefore, building trust is something worth working on. Unfortunately,

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Rolling Out Culture Change on Remote Teams

Making a change on a team isn’t easy. Never has been, never will be. But on a remote team it can be even more difficult to get the team on the same page. It’s bad enough when it’s a relatively simple change like using a new software (simple doesn’t mean it won’t make people crazy.

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