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Category: Leadership Development

What Would Your Employees Say About Your Organization?

The annual Great Place to Work® surveys and applications for small and medium-sized businesses are now open through June 30, 2014.

When Leadership Pretends Not to See

"How can I let the leadership team know my manager is a really poor manager and our team is falling apart because of him?"

Who Are Your Key People?

Who really are your key people? Who do you really need to listen to and learn from?

Keep It Real

One of the professional organizations to which I belong had as its theme a few years ago: Keep It Real. It was meant to encourage us members to truly be experts in what we proclaim to be and do.

How Organized is Your Leadership?

How often have you walked into a bricks-and-mortar business and been completely disappointed? The products were not displayed logically or conveniently. The physical building, parking lot, and retail space were not well-lit and were noticeably dirty.

Be Careful What You Ask For – You Might Just Get It…

Ron Ashkenas wrote a great blog for Harvard Business Review in 2012 in which he outlines a seemingly obvious fact: Don't Ask for Feedback Unless You Want It.

Retaining Employees – Give Them What They Need

For most employers, the objective of filling a staff position, is to find the right person, with the right attitude, with the right skills. Quite often, once that's done, we cross off that 'To Do' item, give a sigh of relief, and move on to the next issue that's demanding our attention.

Doing What the Contract Says Instead of Doing Your Job

What do you do when the contract that's just been signed with the client, is no longer in their best interest or yours? Renegotiate the contract. Change the contract.

Interviewing Well to Gain Employees

In a tough economy or a vibrant one, gaining or finding and hiring good employees is one of the most challenging, and re-curing problems confronting most organizations.

Who’s Monitoring Whom?

We've worked with numerous leadership teams over the years who have needed to help their team members create basic Standard Operating Procedures (SOP’s), document critical processes, and identify Key Performance Indicators (KPIs).