One of the tips I shared on the air today was how important it is to learn how to take a compliment and how it can help reduce perfectionism. When someone compliments you do you say “Ah it was nothing.” Or do you make a self-defeating joke? That really takes away from your self-esteem. Instead, […]

A perfectionist is someone who is never satisfied with themselves or others. The bar is set so high, they drive themselves and others crazy because they are never satisfied. A moderate amount of perfectionistic tendency is okay. When we do assessments on managers, we compare them to thousands of other managers in the database. If […]

This week’s Leadership Wizard segment focused on how managers may inadvertantly punish their good performers and reward their bad performers. It can happen when the manager asks more from their good performer – like helping weaker employees, or when they reward the poor performer by offering them overtime or help to finish their job. To […]

The Monday August 28th AM800 segment focused on the need to eliminate confusion and misuderstandings from communication. Typically we use vague terms when requesting other people to do something for us. We might say, “I need this right away!” which could be misunderstood to mean ‘sometime today’ or ‘in the next 3 minutes’. It is […]

As the Leadership Wizard on AM800 in Windsor, I am offering to provide some individual management coaching a “Management Makeover” if you will. If you know someone within the Windsor/Essex area who wants to enhance his or her leadership skills, please direct them to the LeadershipWizard.com website and follow the link on the left to […]