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10 Ways Meetings Drain the Life from Your Team

We’ve all attended meetings that were a big waste of time. There are many ways meetings can go wrong, but as a manager, you can prevent many of those problems. Check your meeting behaviors against the following list, and make changes if you’re guilty of any of these sins: Meeting for the sake of meeting. Don’t

5 Really Good Reasons for You to Relax This Long Weekend

The long Memorial Day weekend is upon us, so it’s a great time to remind you why you should make time to relax and have fun. You have a lot on your plate. You have lots to think about, lots to do and lots to decide. Still, you will be so much more successful if

How Important are Leaders?

Today I’m asking and answering a paradoxical question: How important are leaders? And the answer will help all of us to be better leaders. Tweet it Out: Remember that, while you are important, leadership isn’t about you at all. @KevinEikenberry

Get Employees Pumped to Attend Training

Because you are reading these words, I am confident you are a believer in ongoing learning and development for yourself and those you lead. So you may find it hard to understand why your team members dread the training that you make available to them. Many leaders who have attended my leadership training courses through

Helping Without Doing

On today’s video, I’m answering a common leadership question and providing five actionable tips to help you be more successful. How can I help others without doing it for them? As a leader, be helpful but don’t do it for them. @KevinEikenberry

5 Tips to Ensure You Don’t Botch Your First Hiring

Hiring is stressful, especially when you’ve never done it before. Hire the wrong person and you can cost yourself and your organization time and money. However, “when you adopt proven hiring strategies, you can retain a steady flow of talent to fill open job positions and replace underperforming employees quickly. And when your hiring is

Prioritization Means Choosing What Problems Not to Solve

This is a guest post by Nat Greene, author of Stop Guessing: The 9 Behaviors of Great Problem-Solvers Business leaders face a constant burden in their organizations: They have too many problems to solve and not enough resources to solve all of them. A good prioritization system is critical for any business leader, and our

7 Things You Should Have Done When You Were Promoted

You are several weeks or even months into your new leadership position, and you are struggling. You can’t figure out why, but you don’t feel like a leader (or your employees don’t treat you like one), and each day brings challenges that you weren’t quite expecting when you accepted the promotion. If that is the case,

Nitpickers Usually Cause More Harm Than Good

By Jaimy Ford, business writer and editor. Having high expectations is certainly not a bad thing. However, when high expectations translate into nitpicking, it is a problem. When you or your employees are detailed-obsessed perfectionists, it puts unrealistic demands on everyone else, it wastes time, slows progress and leaves people feeling overwhelmed, annoyed or even

The Most Critical Thing You Can Do During Your First Week as Leader

No doubt you have so much going on when you take over a team for the first time. Still, how you spend your time during those early days sets the stage for weeks, months or even years to come. Use it wisely by taking the time to build rapport and form relationships with your new

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