Get More Engagement From Your Team
How do you as a leader set goals that maximize employee engagement? How high should you set goals so your team is the most motivated to achieve them? In the book Switch, How to Change Things when Change is Hard, written by Chip and Dan Heath, they tell the story of one of their […]
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Develop Better Leadership Habits
How can you, as a leader, focus on building your leadership habits even though you’re busy taking care of your day to day activities? Who hasn’t gone to a training session or a conference and written down a ton of ideas, only to come back and several weeks later look back and say, “Man, […]
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How To Hire Faster
How can you add to your team rapidly and accelerate your hiring process, when business is booming because of the crisis or uncertainty out there? Even though a lot of businesses have had to cut back during this crisis, we’ve actually seen a number of companies having to rapidly scale up because the demand […]
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Leading A Virtual Team
How can you as a leader lead a virtual team? There are special challenges to leading a virtual team and ways that you, as a leader can be more effective with these challenges. The first thing to realize is that trust often erodes with distance, so the fact you’re not around those people and […]
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Leading During A Crisis
How should you as a leader lead during a crisis? How you lead your team through a crisis is definitely different compared with normal times. First of all, recognize that even though part of your role as a leader is to act as if nothing else has changed, that probably won’t fit in times […]
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Maintain Stress Resilience During a Crisis
Today, we’re going to be talking about stress-resiliency. In the video and podcast related to this week’s episode, you’ll see and hear the interview I did with stress resilience expert Brad Coulbeck. Brad is the author of the book The Resilient Mind: How to Achieve Success by Building Mental and Emotional Toughness. Here are […]
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The Fix For Frustration And Roadblocks
Why should you as a leader, focus on eliminating frustrations and roadblocks for your team? Front line supervisors should be focused on making it easier for their teams to achieve results. Employees can get irritated when, despite their best efforts, the system seems to block them from being able to achieve the desired results. […]
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Put A Stop To Unwanted Chatter
What do you do when people take too much time socializing when they should be working? It’s a tough situation because most people think a little bit of socializing is okay, it’s only when it gets carried away that it becomes a problem. This is all based on the concept that a steady pace […]
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Get Employees To Do Jobs They Don’t Like
How do you, as the leader, get people to do the less desirable jobs on your team? Inevitably, there are some jobs employees prefer not to do. It’s important you rotate employees through those less desirable jobs so it doesn’t create favoritism or reverse favoritism punishment. How can you reduce the resistance? Give them […]
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Dealing With Dominant Personalities
How can you as a front line supervisor deal with dominant personalities on your team? There are two types of defensiveness people use to protect themselves. Passive defensive, and aggressive defensive. We’re not going to focus on passive defensive, which simply means the person protects themself by laying low and following the rules and […]
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