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Foster Mutual Commitment
I read the following in a group discussion forum on LinkedIn awhile back and want to share this good advice about leading from writer Joseph Marzano: “Great leaders: clearly and constantly remind...
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Why Leaders Should Support Volunteer Programs In The Workplace
If you are a workplace leader who supports a volunteer program at your business, you already know that by encouraging employees to give back to the community you are: building teamwork motivating...
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What Southwest Airlines Taught Us In 2011
Southwest Airlines celebrated its 40th this year and was kind enough to share in its in-flight magazine 40 lessons it learned since 1971. The lessons provide good tips for business leaders. If you...
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Are Your Supervisors Driving Away Your Employees?
One section in Richard Finnegan’s book called, Rethinking Retention in Good Times and Bad, compares traditional thinking versus new ways to think about retention and the vital role supervisors play in...
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Book Review: The First-Time Manager, Sixth Edition
Amacom (of the American Management Association) has just released the sixth edition of the best-selling book, The First-Time Manager — originally published in 1981. The book covers eight core...
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Leadership Tip: Explain Each Person’s Relevance
Your employees appreciate clearly knowing how what they do each day specifically contributes to your company’s or organization’s success. So, it’s important that you explain the relevance of each...
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Career Observations On Effective Corporate Cultures
Fortunately, most of my career I’ve worked in effective corporate cultures. If I put together the best of each, here is what made those environments effective: • Leaders led by example on a...
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Book Review: The Art Of Being Unresonable By Eli Broad
Early on in Eli Broad’s new book, The Art of Being Unresaonable, he reminds us of the power of a child’s instinctive asking, “Why not?“ Unfortunately, most adults lose that habit and Broad goes on to...
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Leadership Insights From Top Business Women
Every year, the Kansas City Business Journal honors 25 women business leaders in the Kansas City metro in its “Women Who Mean Business” awards competition. The winners are identified as those women in...
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Book Review: Change-friendly Leadership
Because Dr. Rodger Dean Duncan delivers so much timely, straight-forward and relevant wisdom in his new book, Change-friendly Leadership, reading it is like talking with your trusted best friend. Or,...
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Seven Ways To Define Meaningful Work
There are so many good things to learn in the book, Helping People Win At Work, by Ken Blanchard and Garry Ridge. Among those is the section about how to define meaningful work. Their definition...
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National Volunteer Week — Encourage Your Employees To Volunteer
National Volunteer Week is April 21-27. The week when nonprofit organizations throughout the U.S. will celebrate and honor their volunteers. If you are not already volunteering, what a great time to...
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Culture Is Every Employee’s Responsibility At SWA
If you’ve flown Southwest Airlines you know they’re tops in airline customer service, driven by a leadership style that creates a company-wide culture where all employees own that culture. According...
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Brian Tracy Releases New Pocket-Sized Motivation Guide For Leaders
All you need is one hour to read Brian Tracy‘s newest, pocket-sized guide for managers, Motivation. “You cannot motivate other people,” explains Tracy, “but you can remove the obstacles that stop them...
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How To Keep Employees Engaged
Overland Park, Kansas-based author Leigh Branham, along with Mark Hirschfeld, awhile back completed a survey of 10,000 employees in 43 states to better understand what separates a “best places to...
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Ask Your Employees These Six Questions Often
As explained in John Baldoni’s, book, Lead With Purpose, Marshall Goldsmith suggests all leaders make it a habit to regularly ask their employees these six questions: Where do you think we should be...
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The Exit Interview
Knowing why an employee leaves your company can help you to reduce your employee turnover rate. That’s because you can use the reasons a departing employee provides to gather information about...
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6 Questions To Ask Your Employees
As explained in John Baldoni‘s, book, Lead With Purpose, Marshall Goldsmith suggests all leaders make it a habit to regularly ask their employees these six questions: Where do you think we should be...
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8 Ways To Show You Value Your Employees
There are eight specific actions business leaders can take to show that they value their employees, according to Andrew Leigh, author of the book, Ethical Leadership — Creating and Sustaining an...
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The Six Questions Leaders Should Ask Employees
As explained in John Baldoni‘s, book, Lead With Purpose, Marshall Goldsmith suggests all leaders make it a habit to regularly ask their employees these six questions: Where do you think we should be...
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