How do you motivate Millennials and Generation Z workers on your work team? One of the most requested topics from supervisors, managers, and team leaders is how to motivate the younger people in their work group. A lot of managers and supervisors tell me that it’s really tough to get people to do especially […]
Category: Communication
Don’t Be An Abrasive Leader
What do you do if you’ve been told you’re an abrasive leader? How do you become less abrasive over time? Today’s Leader Feeder is part two of a series. The first one dealt with abrasive people that you interact with. But what happens when you’re the abrasive leader yourself? Abrasive behaviours will usually come […]
Managing Abrasive Team Members
How do you deal with the abrasive personalities that you interact with every day as a leader? One of our most popular and most requested topics is how to deal with abrasive people. These abrasive personalities could be your employees who report to you, or they could be your colleagues you interact with, or […]
Are You Too Nice?
Can a leader be too nice? Are you trying to be so nice and friendly with your team that you are actually hurting your perceptions of leadership effectiveness with them and probably not achieving anywhere near what you could be with your team? The reality is many frontline leaders struggle with how friendly they […]
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 […]