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If I Were To Bump Into You…

  I recently bumped into "Terry," the president of a company I worked with four years ago. During my engagement with them, we'd done strategic planning, leadership succession planning, and lots of management team and systems development (i.e., process and procedures development and management training). Because it'd been awhile since I'd worked with them, I asked, "How are things going?" Terry looked embarrassed, hesitated, and then said, "Well to be honest, we're drifting off-track a...

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Guest Post: Gina Schreck

We have a special guest on the blog today. Technology expert Gina Schreck, founder of Synapse. Gina has written a terrific article that we'd like to share with you.   Leaders: Why Your Organization Should Not Be Using Social Media By Gina Schreck I am a social media nut… I’ll be the first to admit it. I share photos on Instagram, post tips on Twitter, answer questions on Facebook, scan every QR Code that I encounter, and I love checking in on Foursquare to try and rip the Mayoral Robe...

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Do Employee Cliques Have You Stuck?

One of the quickest ways to alienate new employees, restrict their skill development, and keep an organization stuck in a proverbial rut, is to tolerate employee cliques and allow them to control production. What are they? Employee cliques are destructive employee groupings (gangs) that don't welcome new employees (outsiders). They view new employees and their ideas as threats to the status quo. To them, new employees are a waste of their time—particularly if they have to train the new person...

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Be An Expert Presenter

  I attended a luncheon that culminated with an insurance expert explaining his services to the attendees. As soon as the speaker turned on the projector to start his presentation, the bulb blew. A quick inspection revealed there was no spare and the restaurant staff didn't even know their projector used bulbs! Instead of panicking, the insurance expert simply said, “I'll just have to cue you more carefully as you follow along with your handouts.” He then proceeded with his talk. As he...

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Performance Choices and Horse Lessons

My husband and I helped a friend move her horses to a new stable recently. Neither of her horses had ever been loaded on a trailer before, so she was terribly nervous about the unfamiliar adventure facing us. She had visions of her horses panicking, bucking, kicking, whinnying for dear life, and forcibly being pushed and pulled into the trailer. Instead, one horse walked right on as we calmly talked to her during the loading process, and the other eventually walked on the trailer, without...

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