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How Comfortable Is Your Leadership?

  When was the last time you had a true belly laugh with your team? Does the thought of having lunch with your team -- with no agenda or brown bag lunch topic planned -- make you nervous? When was the last time your team gave you honest feedback -- to your face -- because you want to hear from them? If you wish I'd stop asking such annoying questions, your leadership style probably isn't very... how can I say this diplomatically... comfortable. It's probably a bit distant, autocratic, and...

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What’s Your Legacy?

As we draw close to Christmas, I thought I'd share this article from my archives as it reminds me of a special person. It also causes me to focus on how important each person we come in contact with is... I received an email from Jackie, a former client, the day after Christmas. Her e-mail informed me a gentleman, who had attended one of the training programs I presented to her organization, over two years ago, had died of lung cancer. She wanted to tell me about Al's passing, because my...

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Attract, Train, & Retain Employees

Attract, Train, & Retain Employees

With so many companies struggling to attract and retain staff who can perform well, why do so many companies do such a lousy job in training their new staff? Why do they think training is an expense and not an investment? Why do they skimp on something so critical? From my experience, the most common reason is that most companies still default to on-boarding and training new staff the way they were trained when they first started their careers: The new employees are trained on the job by the...

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