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12 Gifts of Christmas: What Your Employees Would Love to Have from Their Leader
Who hasn’t heard of the 12 Days of Christmas – the song with all of the strange gifts! This Christmas, there are 12 gifts you can give to your team – gifts that they would both want and appreciate. And most of these don’t cost anything!
5 Types of People You Encounter in Life
We encounter many types of people in life - some we can’t live without, and others we would like to live without. Here are five of the most common types of people and how to handle each.
7 Surprising Stats About Today's Workplace
What percent of new hires start looking for a new job within 3 months? Take our quiz to test your knowledge of today's workplace.
7 Reasons Why 70% of Change Efforts Fail – And What Leaders Can Do About It
One of the top jobs of a leader is to guide his/her organization through change. And while change itself can kill the organization, resistance to change is guaranteed to do so! Here are seven reasons change efforts sometimes fail and what we as leaders can do to improve the odds of success.
4 Ways to Shape Your Organization’s Culture
“Corporate.” “Casual.” “Friendly.” “Excellent.” “Ruthless.” Every organization, department, board, and even family has a culture – a unique climate created by the values and beliefs of the leader. Here are four ways you can shape the culture of your team or organization.
6 Characteristics of Teams that Get Results
Every effective team needs the right elements to be successful. The following list includes the top six characteristics of high performing teams.
5 Most Common Strategies for Conflict – Which is yours?
Why do you need to be aware of your default conflict strategy? Because people often use the wrong strategy for the circumstances and therefore compound the problem. Here are the 5 most common strategies.
7 Guaranteed Ways to Annoy Your Employees
Great employees are hard to find and even harder to retain. But if you do any of the following seven practices regularly, you will not only annoy your employees, but eventually drive them away.
How to Resolve Conflict with a Win-Win Every Time
When conflict occurs in your life, what corner do you head towards? There are four options but only one way to reach a win-win.
10 Myths of Performance Reviews
Is the annual performance review still the best way to give feedback? Here are 10 myths of performance reviews and their realities.
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Top 5 Reasons People Are Promoted & Fired [Infographic]
If you have ever wondered why others are being promoted ahead of you or why someone was let go from their job, here are the 5 most common reasons people are promoted and fired.
1 Critical Step in Conflict Management
It is baffling at times why otherwise well-intentioned, hard-working people can’t seem to resolve conflict in their midst. And it is often because they are missing this critical step.
5 Reasons to Trust Me
Your team won't trust you if they never know which version of you they are going to get each day. And vice versa. Here are five ways give others a reason to trust you.
Hate Your Job? Read This Before Quitting
Sometimes a change in jobs can provide new experiences and opportunities, but quitting your job can also be a sign of something going on in you… something not so noble or healthy. Before you quit, ask yourself these questions.
The 4 Most Common Reasons a New Hire Fails
A bad hire can cost your organization a lot of money and time. Here are the four most common reasons a hire fails.
The Poison of Hate vs. the Power of Forgiveness
I wonder how many of us would stand with our “enemies” forty or fifty years later and forget about the attacks, critiques, and blame and would instead shake hands and say, “I’m glad we are both still alive.”
Leadership Skills: Diffusing Conflict through Perceptual Positioning
My wife is far-sighted and I am near-sighted. Because we each have a different strength with a corresponding weakness, we make a pretty good team. Without our glasses, we perceive the world differently. She can read road signs in the distance, but I can read menus. She keeps me from missing my exit, and I can tell her to order the chicken cacciatore. But when we both think we are absolutely right and the other person is totally wrong, there will be the inevitable conflict.
What Is Causing Your Conflict?
Unresolved conflict in the workplace is expensive on many fronts. However, conflict can be a critically important component in the formation of high-functioning teams. The key is knowing how to allow the right amount and the right kind of conflict into the system without letting it escalate into a damaging dispute. To do this, we must understand the different root causes of conflict. Which of the following 7 points is the root cause of your conflict?
How to Boost Your Team's Performance
Researchers in behavioral neuroscience have made some stunning discoveries about how our brain cells actually create a chemical connection with others. This is measurably true between leaders and their followers. Simply stated, a leader’s mood drives the mood of the team. Leaders who consistently manifest emotional maturity (high emotional intelligence) will likely have a high performing and loyal team following them.
Building Trust Part 1: Communication
The 6 Trust Gauges to the right graphically describe how trust works among people and in organizations. All people have expectations of themselves and others, but they may not be understood, agreed upon, or fair. These expectations fall into one or more of the following categories: communication, character, concern, competence, connectedness, and consistency. Trust is built when we prove reliable by meeting the expectations others have of us in these six areas.
Withhold encouragement from your team, and you will lose creativity, initiative, and commitment. Give it generously, and you will multiply their performance. Here’s how.