Twelve Common Workplace Behaviors that Drain Energy
The source of your exhaustion might not be the tasks you’re doing or the hours you’re working—it may be the actions of the people laboring beside you.
Fair Play Makes You a Better Manager
The most important trait employees look for in a boss they want to work for is fairness.
Why You Need Equanimity
Equanimity is a term that is rarely heard in relation to management but can be very helpful in dealing with the stress and coflict that is often inherent in the job.
Is the Peter Principle a Myth?
The Peter Principle holds that “in a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence."
13 Rules of Leadership
From “It ain’t as bad as you think. It will look better in the morning,” to a simple, “It can be done.” These 13 no nonsense rules from Colin Powell untangle much of the sometimes wordy and overblown ideas on leadership.
Don't Let Your Next Crisis Go to Waste
This idea takes the experience of a crisis and puts it to work in less trying situations.
The Credo of an Empowering Manager
Here are 10 tips for managing people in a way that reinforces employee empowerment, accomplishment, and contribution.
Seven Myths About Nice Teams
Nice teams mistakenly believe that playing nice is what cooperation and teamwork are all about. They believe that getting along requires people to be nice to each other—all the time. They collectively believe the seven most common myths about nice teamwork.
Six Thoughts About Middle Management
"It has never been harder to be a middle manager and we need great middle management more than ever."
Job Coaching vs Advice
Often, what we call coaching is really advice or counseling. In order for coaching to be effective, the performer needs to own the conversation and subsequent actions.
What is Structured on the Job Training?
On the job training is a standard practice for orienting new employees. In fact, it is the oldest form of training, going back to the apprenticeships of the Middle Ages. However, a more effective method is “structured OJT.”
10 Steps to Long Term Conflict Management
You are infuriated! The situation is out of control and you just don’t have time to deal with it right now. So what do you do?
Five Key Skills of Outstanding Leadership
According to the results of a study, it’s a commonplace assumption that leaders with a "controlling and target-driven approach" are essential in tough economic times. However, the report found that leaders need to do quite the opposite.
Four Warning Signs of Disengagement
If you notice even one, you should take action. If you don't act, you will soon notice another one, and then another, and eventually all four.
Are You Management Material?
Whether or not you are currently a manager, or are looking to be one, at one time or another everyone wonders if they are cut out for the job.
5 MORE Pitfalls of Pitiful Meetings... and How to Fix Them
Your team is filing into the conference room, grumbling as they take their seats for yet another meeting. An hour passes and everyone involved is left wondering why the meeting was held in the first place. If it’s time for a meetings overhaul at your organization, read on for common meeting pitfalls and how you can fix them.
5 Pitfalls of Pitiful Meetings…and How to Fix Them
If your team members (or you) hear “Meeting at 3:00” and think, Here comes another waste of my time, then it’s time for a meetings overhaul at your organization.
Do Two Very Important Things Today
It will be nice if you do more than two, but if just two are completed, you'll still be ahead of the game.
Ten Steps to Long Term Conflict Management
The situation is out of control and you don’t have time to deal with it. So what do you do?
Are You a Starter AND a Finisher?
Every manager intends to follow-through, but only those who have structured their time and work to ensure it are consistently successful.
Five Ways to Really Tick Off Your Employees
Most of us know at least one person who will be jumping ship as soon as they can. Employees appear to be getting angrier everyday and their employers keep throwing more wood into the fire.
Five Myths About Leadership
John Maxwell—author of the book “The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership”—explains the leadership principle of influence through the five myths about leadership.
What Employers Can Do About Employee Satisfaction
A study by the Society for Human Resource Management found that employees identified these five important factors in job satisfaction.
Ten Things to Make You a Better Manager
These ten tips are short and address the heart of what makes a good manager tick. Putting these into practice will up your management game in no time.
Three Steps to Acknowledging Your Mistakes
You've made a mistake at work. It's visible, consequential, and embarrassing. Here's the good news: It's a chance to prove you're a leader.
