Leadership development & business development tools

ShareI spent over two decades of my corporate career in various roles in Human  Resources and as a result, had TONS of conversations with managers about how to deal with their employees or teams when their performance wasn’t ‘up to snuff’.  Quite often, their initial ‘remedy’ was to suggest training, but training isn’t always the [...]

ShareYou’ve probably heard the phrase, “People do business with people they know, like and trust”.  It makes sense.  When we’re comfortable with people, we’re more willing to hang around them and more willing to fork over money to them believing they ‘get’ us and can help us.
The challenge arises when we get and stay too [...]

ShareSome executives think it’s best to keep things ‘close to the vest’.  They believe their employees can’t handle the truth.  They believe their own knowledge is sufficient to carry the day.
Those executives are flushing the intellectual capital of their company down the drain.
Employees know more than their bosses give them credit for.
Working, by Studs Terkel, [...]

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Gratitude and generosity can go a long way to reducing stress in your life.  Expressing and demonstrating them won’t take a lot of time either.  They may take a little mental energy. Yet when you make the effort to give to another, amazingly, you feel better yourself.
I’ve heard that your holistic mind (not your [...]

ShareIf you’ve ever wondered why your brilliant solutions to address a problem weren’t  met with happiness and acceptance, it’s probably because you didn’t understand the real issue and were trying to fix the wrong thing.
Conflict situations are complex.  They aren’t always about what they seem to be about. People are trying to satisfy different needs [...]