For your employees, create an environment that enables them to be their very best. Shawn Murphy, culture change and leadership consultant and author of the book The Optimistic Workplace: Creating an Environment that Energizes Everyone, calls the ideal environment a “Pocket of Excellence” and offers these tips for creating a situation that allows your employees to thrive.

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What do you think when someone says that they would like to “give you some feedback”? Do you assume they have compliments or criticisms to offer? If you are like most people, your mind goes in the negative direction and you assume that what they want to tell you is what you did wrong. It’s

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Here are four tips to help unify your team – whether they’ve worked together for years or not! Tweet This: Building team unity starts with you defining the unifying principles and behaviors you desire. In the Bud to Boss workshop, we address motivating and leading your team to higher performance. We address how to increase

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Need ideas for unifying and motivating a blue collar team? Check out this video for helpful tips to influence and inspire. (And yes, they’ll work for ANY team!) https://youtu.be/a-JWQ2-H8Vs?rel=0&showinfo=0 Tweet This: Motivation is internal. As leaders we can persuade, influence and inspire others; but not motivate them. In the Bud to Boss workshop, we address

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Would you like a simple communication short-cut? Would you like to know the single, best way to communicate with other people? The good news is that there is a simple answer… The best way to communicate with others is the way that is easiest for them to receive and interpret your intended message. The bad

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By Keith Rollag, author of  What to Do When You’re New: How to Be Comfortable, Confident and Successful in New Situations So you’ve been promoted and suddenly find yourself leading your friends, teammates and peers. How should you approach your new role? Over the past 20 years I’ve been studying the new leader experience, trying

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In Monday’s post “The 5 Rules of Giving Gifts to Employees,” we talked some about the do’s and don’ts of choosing and giving gifts to employees. Today we are going to expand on that. While gifts of all kinds are given everyday, we are approaching a time of year when we spend more time thinking

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As managers and leaders, we have to manage our team and handle deadlines, specifically so that they do not miss them. Here are three questions to ask yourself to better help you deal with (missed) deadlines. Tweet This:Missed deadlines are shared failure. Leaders get in front of the deadlines, not chastise after it’s been missed.

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