Cave-Dwellers - Dealing with the most challenging employees
The most challenging 10% of your employees cause 80% of the stress and aggravation you experience as a manager. Progressive discipline can be used to coax these employees out of their cave and then only positive reinforcement can help them become positive contributors in the workgroup. [ view this story ]

Be Our Guest for the New Exceptional Leadership Teleseminar Aug 29th
Managers, supervisors, team leaders and lead hands, or those who aspire to become leaders, will benefit from our new Exceptional Leadership Teleseminar being conducted on Wednesday, August 29th. The seminar is offered at no fee. Even if you cannot attend the live teleseminar, register anyway to get access to the recording afterwards. [ view this story ]

Leadership Lessons From DisneyLand
What can we learn about leadership from the folks at DisneyLand? Greg Schinkel shares his thoughts on the radio and in his blog. Read about it here. [ view this story ]

Now Released: Persuasive and Influential Leadership DVD by Greg Schinkel
Unique Training & Development has just released a DVD video program titled Persuasive and Influential Leadership by company president Greg Schinkel. This one hour video is based on Greg’s highly attended and highly rated keynote presentation in which he describes how you can use advanced communication techniques to get people to do what you want and let the other person think it was their idea. This video was produced into a one-hour cable television special. [ view this story ]

Accountability requires consequences
Do well, keep your job; do poorly, you’re fired! This is how some executives and managers might view accountability. Negotiating consequences, both positive and negative can create strong motivation to be accountable for results and generate top performance. [ view this story ]

Listen to Leadership Wizard Audio Clips Here
Listen to the latest radio segments of the Leadership Wizard Greg Schinkel including: Delegation, Deciding who should be promoted and negotiating tactics and pitfalls. [ view this story ]