How Do We Form Core Values
What are Values? Values, by definition, are a set of beliefs or opinions that shape how you live your day-to-day life. They are ideas that are important to you personally and characterize who you...
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It’s Time to Replace Job Reviews With Frequent Touch-Base Meetings
Manager/employee touch-base meetings were created to be better than yearly or twice-yearly job reviews; they are especially effective when you are leading younger generations. It’s time to replace Job Reviews with frequent Touch-Base Meetings....
Success: Do You Really Need Someone to Change Your Life?
I recently sat in on a video call with an author who had just written a book that he said would lead to ultimate success. Everyone on that call was pumped up. As the...
Are the Things You Say Hurting Your Professional Image?
You say them. Everybody says them. They are the popular, “hot” expressions that have found their way into business meetings, emails, and phone conversations. Let’s consider some that have become popular today. Some of...
The Other Side of Covid-19
Much has been written about the unrelenting spread of the Coronavirus across the world. As of this writing, the Johns Hopkins Resource Center tracks over 100 million worldwide confirmed cases that have resulted in...
How Hard is it to Manage Millennials?
Let’s define our terms. The so-called millennial generation (also called “Generation Y”) includes people born between 1980 and 1998. For today’s post, however, I will focus on people born between about 1990 and 1995....
Your Front Line is Your Bottom Line…Why it Pays to Prioritize Your Training
Years ago, someone asked the legendary hotel owner J.W. “Bill” Marriott, “How do you train your hotel team members to be so friendly?” In his famous reply, Marriott answered, “We hire friendly people.” How else can you say it more clearly ....
What’s the Difference Between Millennials and Generation Z?
What we should know about Millennials and Generation Z Everyone seems to be asking the question – What’s the difference between Millennials and Generation Z? Business owners, top corporate executives, middle managers and just...
The Five Key Leadership Styles
There are many ways of looking at the five key leadership styles or archetypes. An archetype is your model of the world. It is the construct of how you interpret reality. We are all...
Using Lessons Learned from the Game of Chess to Navigate Covid-19 Recovery
Do you want your company to come back strong after the coronavirus crisis? If you do, we have a suggestion for you . . . Manage your recovery like a game of chess You...
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