Productive Leaders
Effective Leadership for Work-from-Home Employees and Virtual Teams On the days they worked in 2015, 24 percent of employed people did some or all of their work at home. The share of workers doing some or all of their work at home grew from 19 percent in 2003 to 24...
Are You Focusing on the A or the F? Make the Most of Your Team’s Strengths If your 5th grader’s report card shows A grades for all classes except one, and that one is a F, what do you focus on? The F, of course. You chide the child for not applying themselves, for not...
5 Questions Leaders Need to Ask to Increase Morale at Work Keeping employees motivated is crucial to maintaining a productive workplace. The American Management Association points out that increasing morale doesn’t come from gimmicky management fads, it comes from...
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...
Leading Employees to Think Like Owners Leadership is unlocking people's potential to become better. - Bill Bradley Do your team members behave as though they own the company? Well, they should. You make decisions based on what you believe is good...
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...
Are You Asking Stupid Questions? Are your leaders asking stupid questions? If they are, they will likely get stupid answers when they do get answers, and they will believe the answers. Leaders like the illusion that if they walk around and ask...
Are You Leading or Just Watching Change? Most people don’t like change. Change brings uncertainty, causes anxiety, and is frequently accompanied by fear. With all the change that may be happening in a person’s particular role or industry, some...
Why Your Leadership Instincts are Wrong I was talking with a Dad of one of the kids on my Little League team the other day about his children. He is struggling because he wants to give his children a wonderful childhood, but he wants them to be...