This is a guest post by John Findlay is co-founder of Launchfire. You just took over a team, and you are frustrated with the level of training your employees received under your predecessor. Perhaps the previous leader didn’t invest in training at all or maybe he or she just wasted everyone’s time with ineffective training. And
In today’s episode, I’m joined by Becky Robinson, author, and the founder and CEO of Weaving Influence, Inc., a social media and digital publicity company for authors and thought leaders. We’ll discuss entrepreneurship from a female’s perspective, and how to successfully create and lead an organization built on specific core values, as well as overcoming
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
By Jaimy Ford, business writer and editor As a new leader, it’s easy to slip into a routine and stick to it. After all, why should you change what appears to be working? However, if you simply adapt a previous leader’s style or you rely on trusted approaches that come easy to you, you run the risk of slipping into
By Tim Sanders Making sales, especially in the B2B environment, is tougher and more complex than ever. That is the opening salvo from Tim Sanders in his new book. If you are involved in B2B sales at all, you would certainly agree with that assertion. In this book, Sanders takes that fact and does two
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
Chances are you have heard the phrase “groupthink.” If so, you have a justifiably negative feeling about the idea. Chances are probably even better that you haven’t heard the phrase “teamthink.” That is the point of this article.A DefinitionThe word and idea of groupthink was popularized in the early 1970’s based on a book by Yale
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