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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.

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.

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).

Stop Rewarding Perfect Attendance!

I heard another manager suggest it this past week: "I think we need to start rewarding our employees for perfect attendance. It's the least we can do to show them our appreciation for their dedication!"

Performance Reviews – They’re Not Just A Once A Year Thing

A client was experiencing some employee performance issues and asked us to present training to their managers on their new employee performance evaluation form. Terrific. However, they weren't thrilled when I told them that the training should focus

The Middle Management Mess

I started focusing on what I call the Middle Management mess after I read an article in the March 2006 issue of the Harvard Business Review by Robert Morison, Tamara Erickson, and Ken Dychtwald entitled “Managing Middlescence.”

Effective Goal Setting

We all set goals in our personal and professional lives. However, many of us fail to set our goals effectively, and therefore never achieve them. Our goals are often stated in terms such as "I'll increase productivity next week."

Don’t Be a Wimpy Manager

What's a wimpy manager? It's a manager who isn't honest, fair, and clear with her employees on her expectations. It's a manager who believes she's being nice by not telling her employees when they're under-performing, veering off-track, or flat-out behaving in unacceptable ways.

What Is Leadership?

What is leadership? That's a great question because depending upon whom you ask, the answer will vary. Yet each person's answer will swirl around common themes.

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