Productive Leaders
8 Ways For Leaders to Provide Awesome Employee Feedback How do you feel when your boss tells you that you have a performance appraisal appointment coming up this Friday? Most of us feel a pit forming in our stomach. No one likes their performance appraisal session,...
When Generation Z Hits the Workplace We all know a Baby Boomer refers to people born between about 1946 to 1964. Millennials were born between 1981 and 1997. Get ready for Generation Z. Generation Z? Generation Z'ers were born between 1997 and 2010. A...
7 Ways to Communicate Better with Your Boss DENVER April 18, 2017 PRNewswire Also appeared on 201 Media Websites Globally including Yahoo Finance and Market Watch Good communication with the boss is critical for a positive and productive work...
Are You a Confident or an Arrogant Leader? There’s a fine line between confidence and arrogance. When leaders are confident, they have a deep belief in their ability to help others and make a difference in the world. Confidence is an important...
10 Tips for Resolving Conflict in Associations and Volunteer Organizations We believe most people want to show up and do a great job, both in the workplace and in their community organizations. Sometimes, despite our best intentions, conflict...
Building trust is difficult. Learning to trust the people you work with and the people on your team can be challenging. But breaking trust is can be a very quick process. In a coaching engagement, we worked with…
The reason that we wind up cooperating with others as part of a team at work, the reason Paleolithic cave dwellers hunted as a team, and the reason people rowing in a scull move as one entity is that we are better together. Join forces. When we work toward a common goal, when we think and move and focus as one powerful…
If you’ve ever worked for a bad boss, you’ve probably uttered these famous words …. “I don’t get paid enough to put up with this crap!” Bad bosses destroy morale and employee engagement and, more often than not, they brighten up the whole company when they quit or are finally fired…
“Do something, even if it is wrong,” was my parents’ way of encouraging their children to try, take risks, and take action. Action is better than inaction. Being proactive is better than no action at all. Try. Maybe fail. Do it anyway. Just DO something.