Category Archive: Leadership
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Teleworking works?
All the new methods of staying connected to the workplace allow for more and more people to work from alternate locations. The need to actually be in the office is becoming less and less. Or is it? You may be able to be super productive at home or in the coffee shop, but your boss may not think so. Your boss may not see what it is that you bring to the team.
Save Customers By Engaging Your Front Line
I recently read a blog post about a coffee shop that had so many customers in line every morning that other people (potential customers) would turn and go somewhere else when they approached the store. The question was being asked, “How many customers did you lose today?” Or to put it in business-ese, “How much revenue and potential growth did you let slip away today?”
Who’s Leading this Team?
Be able to “Agree to Disagree.” Don’t dance around a situation, if there is something wrong, state it. WE all know that a problem can only be remedied if it is a known problem.
Explaining Employee Motivation at the Individual and Team Level
… understand what needs to be done to motivate employees within different stages of their career, and note the natural development and motivating factors within a project team. Each individual motivates by different means depending…
Team Conflict – Adversarial Employee – Part IV
Numerous things went through my mind. How do I resolve this? A phone call? With a conversation that would sound like, “What the hell are you doing?” An email that would say…
Team Conflict – Adversarial Employee – Part III
Take some time to think about what you want to say and what the repercussions to the individual, you, the team, and those that are above you are. Craft a response…
Team Conflict – Adversarial Employee – Part II
The rest of the team discussed with him that things were working better, we shot holes in his theories…
Team Conflict – Adversarial Employee – Part I
Sometimes people who “grow up” or work in an adversarial work environment for a long period of time assume that approach to working. Even if you fix the problem, and create supportive collaborative team environment,… Read More
