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What’s Your Word Worth?

What’s Your Word Worth?

Regardless of the topic I am presenting, many clients indicate the greatest frustration with co-workers, supervisors, team members, or managers is another person’s inability to keep his or her word. Other people don’t walk the talk or follow through with the promises they made. They simply do not do what they said they would do. It sounds so basic, but listen when I tell you that the bottom-line impact this fundamental behavior can have on an organization is incredible. If you do not believe...

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Leadership Clashes

Leadership Clashes

In meeting with a prospective client this week, an all too common issue presented itself: The client wants to tweak the organization's culture. The leaders want to enhance their managers' and front-line team members' ability to work together, communicate with one another, and generally create a more comfortable workplace. Wonderful. However, to achieve this, they believe leadership training for their supervisors and managers is the answer. Not in this case. Well, at least not yet. Leadership...

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Unhappy Employees? What didn’t YOU do?

Unhappy Employees? What didn’t YOU do?

A client recently told me she believes one of her key employees may be looking for a new job. My client was nervous and feeling a bit defeated at losing another star employee. Sarah (not her real name) is smart, efficient, organized, and articulate. She gets along with everyone, works on any project you ask her to, and is willing to try new things; however, she's apparently very unhappy. As my client and I talked a bit more, I discovered that Sarah was the last (only) full-time employee left...

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Systems Increase Value

Systems Increase Value

It's odd how things happen sometimes. Unknown to one another, a good friend and a valued client each called me this week to say that they'd made the decision to sell one of their respective companies. Both businesses are successful. Both are solid cash-flow generators. Both are growing in growing industries. The owners, however, have too many other irons in the fire to comfortably continue to manage these ventures. And since the businesses are profitable, they are marketable and potential...

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