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Views: 1455 - Loyalty and Leadership - 8 Ways to Earn The Loyalty of Your Employees - by Submitted on Jul 28, 2009 from Josephine RomanoLoyalty is defined as commitment or allegiance to a person, a group, or a cause. Sounds clear enough but loyalty often gets skewed in the workplace. Here are some examples where loyalty is distorted: * A manager thinks an employee is being disloyal because he or she questioned what the ...
Views: 1575 - Maintain Long-Term Success As A Top Sales Manager By Offering Products And Services As Solutions, Not Commodities - by Submitted on Jan 30, 2010 from Ralph BurnsThe job of a top sales manager is a lot like old-school video gaming. The more you succeed, the deeper you get into the game, the harder the challenges get thrown your way. And the same is true for sustaining the revenue growth of a large company. Success breeds imitation. Look at it this ...
Views: 1096 - Maintaining Good Client Relations - by Submitted on Nov 15, 2012 from Scott HunterCustomer Relations Establishing and Maintaining Good Customer Relations ISSUE: Customers don’t hire firms or engineers, they hire people. Unless an engineer is willing to appropriately start and then nurture the customer relationship, the customer won’t come back and they certainly ...
Views: 868 - Make Room for Innovation - Discard Old Systems - by Submitted on Aug 30, 2012 from Pat HeydlauffAre organizational boxes keeping you imprisoned in the “we’ve always done it this way” mode? Are you finding it impossible to rapidly adapt to change within existing bureaucratic confines? The workforce that begins in confining boxes stays confined and cannot work to its highest potential. ...
Views: 1352 - Making a difference - it is up to you! - by "I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character." Those powerful words are part of a speech given by Martin Luther King in August 1963. Those are the words of a man who was ...
Views: 808 - Making a difference in the workplace - by Have you been lately into a local supermarket? Have you noticed how many brands of breakfast cereals are on the shelves? How many different brands of breakfast cereals are you actually eating? Few! If so, why do we need all this variety? The truth is - we don't! Our society is absorbed in a mad ...
Views: 810 - Making a difference in your leadership influence - by Submitted on Feb 02, 2008 from Christina ParkerPeople skills, you either have them or you don't. True - up to a point. Some leaders are great at getting from their people exactly what is vital and important and others, well, let's say, less so. Still, for all there is hope to make progress, by focusing on some key points to build leadership ...
Views: 881 - Making a Difference: 4 Tips to Moving Your “Difference Needle” - by Submitted on Dec 28, 2011 from Mike Henry Sr.I was recently reminded that a leader is someone who wants to be a part of building something that they cannot build alone. Based on this thought, I will choose to spend my time this New Year making a difference and taking part in something that matters! In our culture, moving the ...
Views: 1846 - Making Metrics Matter - by Submitted on Oct 06, 2014 from Angie ThompsonWhen I talk to many leaders, the term “metrics” seems to cause one of two responses: a gleam in the eye of those leaders who love the numbers...or a blank stare from the rest who know that measures and metrics are important, but will say they “aren’t numbers people.” You are likely one of those ...
Views: 881 - Making Time for Important Long-Term Projects - by Submitted on Jan 31, 2012 from Joel GarfinkleMost of us focus our time and energy on whatever short-term tasks land on our plate each week. That's fine as long as we also commit time and energy to the important long-term projects that will get us where we eventually want to be. Here are six ways to make sure the important projects don't ...
Views: 861 - Manage by Mobilizing - by Are you depriving your employees of the opportunity to excel? Most organizations revolve around the manager as controller model but attempts to control people's behavior can cause resentment. As Peter Druker says, "A leader's job is to make people's strengths effective and their weaknesses ...
Views: 1018 - Manage or Lead – Why the Difference Matters and What to Do About That Difference - by Submitted on Apr 06, 2005 from Kevin EikenberryManage or Lead – Why the Difference Matters and What to Do About That Difference Many books have been written about managing people, and an equally large number have been written about leadership. Some use the words manage and lead interchangeably, and some talk about the differences between ...
Views: 1149 - Manage Your Commitments, Not Your Hours! - by Submitted on Jun 18, 2009 from Cookie Tuminello“The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot.” – Michael Altshuler One of the biggest complaints I hear from my clients is that they don’t have enough time. Are you also one of those people who wish they could squeeze out another hour out of every day? Well, let me tell you ...
Views: 947 - Management Accountability - The Secret Ingredient to Employee Performance - by Submitted on May 10, 2016 from Pat HeydlauffAccording to the report, Global Human Capital Trends 2015 by Deloitte University, global organizations today must navigate a “new world of work” – one that requires a dramatic change in strategies for leadership, talent and human resources. The research went on to state that when comparing ...
Views: 1430 - Management Leadership -- How To Turn Problems To Profits - by Submitted on Feb 14, 2008 from Michael McFaddenWhat is the one thing we all have in common? White black, rich poor, young old, male female, handsome unattractive; there is something we all have in common – pain! And we all have the desire to overcome it. Our common denominator for pain is the result of the universal experience of problems. ...
Views: 868 - Management Skills You May Not Have Learned In School - by Submitted on Feb 23, 2021 from Zac WalkerTeachers in schools and colleges teach their students the theory that they are intended to know following the choice of the school in which they are located. Have you ever wondered what important things we learn through experience and life, and not in the school we are in? Experience builds ...
Views: 868 - Manager's Corner - Accountability Allows Leadership - by Submitted on Aug 25, 2008 from Liz WeberA senior manager recently asked what the difference was between a manager and a leader. I told her. A manager is responsible for taking care of the here and now. A manager ensures the resources are used efficiently, and plans for maximum utilization of staff, equipment, materials, and capital. A ...
Views: 1045 - Manager's Corner - Afraid To Be A Leader - by Submitted on Aug 20, 2008 from Liz WeberIt's happening again. I'm witnessing a new "leader" become ineffective and the senior team's confidence in him is starting to lag. The leader is losing his effectiveness even though he's already implemented several much needed programs for the organization. He's losing his effectiveness because ...
Views: 866 - Manager's Corner - Be Fair And Share - by Submitted on Aug 21, 2008 from Liz WeberAre you being fair with your managers? Are you sharing critical information with them in a timely manner? Are you developing performance standards for them and the company and then not sharing those standards with them? If you answered, "Yes, Yes, and No" that's great. But stop and really think ...
Views: 842 - Manager's Corner - Do Your Job - by Submitted on Aug 15, 2008 from Liz WeberA manager approached me this week after a work session to seek my advice on how he should address one of his employees. This employee is increasingly becoming trouble; he's more often than not selecting which projects and which elements of each project to work on. When the manager has asked the ...
Views: 884 - Manager's Corner - Fear Of Difficult Conversations - by Submitted on Aug 22, 2008 from Liz WeberIt's been happening more and more. Clients are complaining about their managers' inappropriate behaviors, lack of management skills, and inability to take on greater responsibilities. Yet, when I ask what they've done to discuss the problem areas with their managers, I'm told, "It won't do any ...
Views: 1006 - Manager's Corner - Help Ourselves Develop Others - by Submitted on Aug 29, 2008 from Liz WeberThis past month has been an amazing time. We have facilitated planning sessions and have provided management training programs to several clients on topics ranging from Strategic Planning to Enhancing Communications. Each group, without exception, voiced their concern over their organization's ...
Views: 1135 - Manager's Corner - Leadership Traits - by Submitted on Aug 19, 2008 from Liz WeberA client recently asked me to help him identify leadership skills his son would need to develop to help him successfully takeover and lead the family business in a few years. He also wants to be able to evaluate all his managers on these skills on a scale of 1 (none/low) to 5 ...
Views: 1518 - Manager's Corner - Listen Critically - by Submitted on Aug 13, 2008 from Liz WeberI had a difficult experience this past week: I had to practice what I preach. I had to listen to someone share her criticisms, suggestions, and proposed new procedures for an organization I have been heavily involved with for the past five years. And here's the tough part, I had to force myself ...
Views: 894 - Manager's Corner - People Power - by Submitted on Sep 15, 2008 from Liz WeberI had the opportunity to provide the keynote address at a client's annual team meeting in New York recently. For most organizations these types of events are honestly, quite boring and attended only by those employees who couldn't come up with a believable excuse not to attend. This ...
Views: 1039 - Manager's Corner - Show Up - by Submitted on Aug 04, 2008 from Liz WeberI learned this week that a client started a program in which every manager is part of a team to help less-experienced staff learn basic project management techniques. Each team will identify and work on a project collaboratively. The overall intent is to not only enhance the project management ...
Views: 697 - Manager's Corner - So You Say You Coach Your Employees - by Submitted on Mar 26, 2009 from Liz Weber- "Oh yes. Our employees are our most valuable asset." - "Given the way things are these days, we work very hard to retain our employees." - "We've provided coaching and mentoring training to all of our management staff!" Well good for you. But why is it that your staff seems nervous and ...
Views: 1323 - Manager's Corner Article: Developing Your Future Leaders: It's Your Responsibility - by Submitted on Aug 26, 2008 from Liz WeberMany business owners still believe their Human Resources (HR) department is primarily responsible for developing their respective organization’s future leaders. However, the longer business owners keep this limited mindset, the further behind their organizations become. You see, this ...
Views: 827 - Manager's Corner Article: I Want My Life Back! - by Submitted on Sep 04, 2008 from Liz WeberYep, I heard it again. A new client, a CEO, told my team prior to our first work session, "I want my life back. I love working, but I've got to stop working 90-100 hour weeks. Something's gotto change around here." Sounds logical and completely reasonable to me. But how do youget your life back ...
Views: 843 - Manager's Corner: If Something Feels Off, It Probably Is - by Submitted on Mar 06, 2009 from Liz WeberI messed up - big time. I knew deep in my gut something had to be wrong, but for some reason, I didn't have a frank, direct conversation with Joseph. During our numerous status meetings, I had accepted his rationalizations of a hectic travel schedule, numerous new team members, and uncooperative ...
Views: 1564 - Manager's Corner: Keep It Real - by Submitted on Mar 06, 2009 from Liz WeberOne of the professional organizations to which I belong has had its theme for the year: Keep It Real. It is meant to encourage us members to truly be experts in what we proclaim to be and do. To be honest, when I first heard the theme, I thought: Boring! However, over the past several months, ...
Views: 998 - Manager's Corner: Managing Lay Offs with Dignity - by Submitted on Mar 06, 2009 from Liz WeberWith the potential for layoffs facing more and more companies, the realities of laying off great workers is confronting many business owners and managers: owners and managers who have never before faced this hard act. To help ease the pain for the employees being laid off, the owners and ...
Views: 1380 - Manager's Corner: When Is it Complete - by Submitted on Mar 06, 2009 from Liz WeberSo what are we supposed to do? What are they looking for? Why don't they just tell us what they want? I hear these and similar questions from employees fairly frequently as they try to determine what their managers really want them to do with a project. What are they supposed to deliver? The ...
Views: 1157 - Managing Conflict at Your Organization - by Submitted on Mar 28, 2013 from Guy FarmerThe scene is familiar. Two or more amazing people who are dedicated to furthering the wonderful work our nonprofit conducts are actively in conflict. It starts with a perceived slight, follows with silent anger, gradually simmers into personal jabs and eventually escalates into outright ...
Views: 2090 - Managing Fear During The Global Crisis - How to Make Your Employee’s Feel Safe - by Submitted on Jun 24, 2020 from W.T. & Pamela HamiltonBeing designated as part of the supply chain is both a great responsibility and an unforeseen burden on businesses. Being needed, sometimes critically, brings added pressure to provide the product or service your community needs, all while facing additional danger and health risks as a result. ...
Views: 1373 - Managing State in Angular 2 Applications - by Submitted on Jan 22, 2019 from first enquiryseoManaging application state may be a laborious drawback. Patterns like redux and Flux are designed to deal with this drawback by creating coordination a lot of explicit. i'll show how we are able to use this pattern to implement an easy Angular 2 application. Core Properties: When talking ...
Views: 726 - Managing Towards The Simplicity Just On The Other Side Of Complexity - by Submitted on Mar 26, 2011 from William CottringerManaging Towards The Simplicity Just On The Other Side Of Complexity By Bill Cottringer “I wouldn’t give a fig for the simplicity on this side of complexity, but I would give my life for the simplicity just on the other side of complexity.” ~Oliver Wendell Holmes. The main purpose ...
Views: 1538 - Managing your mindset: the key to effective time management - by Submitted on Mar 04, 2011 from Bart Mindszenthy & Harvey Silver, Ph.D.As economic conditions get tougher, everyone has had to do more with less. But when workplace demands for higher productivity mean that management workloads become unwieldy, whole organizations suffer unless leaders learn to manage their time by managing themselves. “Most of us respond to ...
Views: 1392 - Marsha Kent – the Call Centre’s role in DRTV Marketing - by Submitted on Mar 13, 2012 from Marsha KentMarsha Kent, the pioneer in DRTV marketing talks profoundly about the importance of a good Call Centre in the DRTV ensemble. A responsive Call Centre, using a wide range of sophisticated software, answers inbound, or places outbound telephone calls. To handle the high volumes of inbound calls, ...
Views: 992 - Marsha Kent-The Thorough Professional. - by Submitted on Mar 12, 2012 from Marsha KentMarsha Kent, the one of the marketing wizards and pioneers of DRTV has been a strong advocator of the medium since the 1980s, and has sold products from every genre imaginable- Cosmetics, Personal Care, Fitness and Houseware, you name it, all of them have been touched, in some way or the other ...
Views: 756 - Master Employee Engagement (Part I) - The Most Important Strategy For Revitalizing Your Organization - by Submitted on Jul 16, 2012 from Mikael MeirEver more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for. —Victor Frankl Psychiatrist, Neurologist and Holocaust survivor Victor Frankl wrote Man's Search For Meaning - one of the 10 most influential books in the United States history (according to the Library of Congress). ...
Views: 816 - Mastering Cultural Diversity: 5 Reflective Questions That Will Make You an Effective Manager - by Submitted on Nov 09, 2017 from Veronica HislopIn todays global economy it is good business sense for services, businesses and organizations to be reflective of the customers they serve. More than ever, strong managers and leaders are required to have a comprehensive set of skills that allows them to be adept at managing a vast array of ...
Views: 1312 - Mastering Harmony: Binais Begovic’s Journey in Conscious Self-Leadership and Family Life - by Submitted on Nov 02, 2023 from Hazel SansburyIntroduction: The Intersection of Leadership and Family Binais Begovic, a distinguished life coach, entrepreneur, and advocate for conscious self-leadership, stands as a testament to the powerful impact of leading with awareness, integrity, and purpose. Beyond his professional accolades, ...
Views: 488 - Maya Angelou’s Leadership Advice - by Submitted on Jun 12, 2014 from Angie ThompsonIt is three simple lines and the words I most connect to Maya Angelou. After I heard of her passing, they are the words I thought of . . . “If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain.” - Maya Angelou The advice is powerful and easy ...
Views: 970 - Meet Liran Mizrahi, Israel’s Top Instagram Expert - by Submitted on Oct 30, 2021 from Hazel SansburyInstagram started 11 years ago and since then the social media platform has revolutionized how we share pictures today. At the time, no one had an inkling as to the potential Instagram had. Among the many people opening up accounts and simply sharing photos was Liran ...
Views: 798 - Meet Steve Kerr - by Submitted on Oct 12, 2015 from Rand GolletzMany of you know that I invoke sports figures, especially coaches, as examples of the good, the bad, and the ugly of leadership. Many examples of effective leadership come from that world. Pete Carroll in the NFL, Buck Showalter and Joe Girardi in professional baseball and Greg Popovich in the ...
Views: 1394 - Mental Health Vocabulary (Part 1) - by Submitted on Jun 12, 2019 from Jonathan SmallIt doesn't do well to be unaware of mental health terminology in the current times. Every second individual is subject to one or another mental health complaint. One must be sensitive towards them, and to do so, one must first acquaint themselves a little with what these conditions are. The ...
Views: 721 - Millennials are the Next Link in Corporate Evolution - by Submitted on Nov 21, 2018 from Niti SharmaChanges come in two ways – revolution and evolution. Revolution is few people of ‘enlightenment’ rising against the age-old norms and toppling it over in one or more than one swift blow. Revolution is everything, but evolution. And evolution is subtle. Evolution happens with years. Unnoticeable ...
Views: 858 - Millennials, Leadership and the Bottom Line - by Submitted on Nov 09, 2014 from Michael MantellHere is a novel idea if you are a tough boss. Get fair. Fast. That is, if you want to hold on to your employees, especially millennials. Whether your realize it or not, employees expect the American workplace to be a kinder, gentler place in which to work. So tough guy or tough gal, get ...
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