Dedicated employees want to know how their work fits into the big picture, how their contributions make a difference, and what they need to do to make leadership happy. Employees are hungry for feedback; they want to know where they are doing a good job and where they...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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)...