I love hearing people’s ideas. I love outside-of-the-box thinking, and I regularly—my teammates might think too regularly—ask for people’s input. So just to be clear, I want people to offer ideas. That said, I’m less than excited when people send ideas—and nothing more. They don’t offer any insight into how an idea will be executed.
I don’t think firing employees comes naturally to anyone. Many new leaders avoid making this tough call. But keeping a poor performer on staff is detrimental to your bottom line as well as your team’s productivity and morale. Your staff knows when a teammate isn’t pulling his or her own weight, and that can lead
For years, I have helped leaders think about and clarify their expectations for the performance of others. Without this clarity or a mutual understanding of those expectations, people don’t know how to succeed in their work. As important as this is, it is just the starting point. The band of excellence is a concept that
While I mention Performance Reviews in the title of this post and throughout the video many times, that is NOT my biggest focus today. Today, I am talking about coaching and giving four specific pieces of advice to help you focus more on the coaching and less on the performance review. Tweet it out: Leading
by Kami Anderson Often we talk about leaders who were “born to lead or “natural born leaders.” However, history shows us (as well as our experiences) that leadership isn’t necessarily a genetic trait that’s passed down from generation to generation. We know of certain sons and daughters of great leaders who never became that way
Organizational culture is almost becoming cliché. Yet, culture is vital to both employee and customer experiences. Brand expert Denise Lee Yohn and author of Fusion: How Integrating Brand and Culture Powers the World’s Greatest Companies shares insight to building a culture unique to you and aligning that culture with your brand. You need to connect
Many companies are using “work from home” as a perk or a way of retaining their best people. But is working remotely setting them up to be picked off by the competition? It could be. Given that the replacement costs of recruiting, training, and making up for lost productivity can be three times someone’s salary,
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