Words of Wisdom
To Help You Work Better Together
Do You Have a Rotten Apple in Your Organization?
Toxic employees in the workplace can have drastic effects causing expensive losses within companies. However, it can be difficult to identify an office bully. They can intimidate fellow employees that keep them from speaking with management, and at times, they will...
Does this Conversation Forward the Action?
When it comes to communication in business, there is one question to ask yourself at any given time: "Does this conversation/interaction/discussion forward the action for our company?" I am not talking about water cooler, after-work happy hour, or even...
Your people desperately need training to develop crucial skills
I've talked before about the crucial need for skills, not technical skills or coding skills or even trade labor skills. Those can all be taught and learned through courses and programs. The training I'm talking about is what we traditionally label "soft skills."...
Creating a Strengths-Based Culture
To be successful, you need to play to your strengths, and the people in your organization need to play to their strengths as well. All this as opposed to boosting your weaknesses because of the traditional “weaknesses are your biggest area of growth and...
We’re not selling shovels
Last I checked, I did not see anyone selling shovels on LinkedIn. Why not? Don’t shovels have just as much right to be sold as a $20,000 re-vamp-your-company's-entire-marketing-strategy package? The answer is, yes, shovels get sold as much (actually lots more) as a...
Managing Working at Home with Children – Egad!
As many organizations continue to work remotely, and now many school districts are doing remote learning as well, the challenge of managing bodies at home, all with different needs, agendas, goals, and emotions, continues to grow. One of our corporate clients asked...
Don’t Just Say Something…Stand There!
I call it therapist mode. In therapist school we called it "active listening," meaning listen to understand, not necessarily to comment. And, if necessary, in an opportune moment repeat what they said back to them so they KNOW you were listening. One...
9 Questions You Must Be Asking Your Employees
The Coronavirus pandemic is affecting our lives in every aspect, and we are experiencing a "new normal." At some point things will get back to normal, whatever that is, but it will look different from what normal was a few weeks ago. This pandemic is an...
The survey is over… now what?
Organizations who are innovative enough to know the value of conducting surveys and assessments are one step ahead of other organizations who are mired in the here and now. Organizations who are all about status quo, not rocking the boat, “we’ve always done it this...
10 Traits of an Effective Leader
These top 10 traits are according to us here at The Shuler Group, and that work has come from decades of working with companies, businesses, organizations, associations, executives, managing our own teams, team building, leadership development, and really seeing...
