Here’s a practice you can use when you make decisions with your team. It can significantly increase your team’s commitment to decisions made and as well as their trust in the decision-making process. The practice has two steps, both frequently overlooked. The first is the easiest: For each topic you introduce for discussion as team […]
What Can the Corporate World Learn from PBL?
Project Based Learning (PBL) is an education trend wherein teachers devise interactive student projects that incorporate curriculum components from the common core and encourage students to take charge of their own learning, understanding the practical applications of the topics they cover. PBL is cross-curricular: a single project can include many subject areas, skill sets, and […]
Ways To Grow Employee Performance
I’m often asked what are the best strategies for motivating team members to reach goals and succeed. I believe that the answer lies in recognition, rewards and people development. The following steps can help your company create a culture of excellence: Give Your Employees Cause To Engage Your employees are part of something bigger, but […]
8 Steps To A Corporate Culture Of Excellence
Professional pride and ambition drive the best professionals to achieve. Most employees want to be a part of a compelling future, want to know what is most important at work and what excellence looks like in the eyes of management. For targets to be meaningful and effective in motivating employees, they should be connected to […]
Setting Up an Effective Corrective Action System
Corrective action is not just a matter of documenting performance problems. An effective corrective action system is also a way to help employees improve. The right approach starts with laying the groundwork with a clear policy, training of managers and follow through on the system you have set up. The End Goal is Not Termination […]
5 Reasons To Onboard Millennials Online
Why Online Onboarding is the Better Way For Millennials What type of employees are you hiring? What generation are they in? As the millennial generation (also commonly known as Gen-Y and includes births from 1982 – 2000) grows in the workforce and baby boomers retire, managers and human resources professionals need to think about the […]
When It’s Time to Terminate An Employee
Small business owners should add terminations to their list of management training priorities. By Michael Essany
Using Leadership Competency Models
Using Leadership Competency Models… Too much of a Good Thing? If you are using a leadership competency model I’m sure you can easily list oodles of benefits you and your organization have gained: Leaders’ opportunities for growth are pinpointed. • Development opportunities can be precisely targeted. • Competency levels can be compared across the organization. […]
30 Awesome Coaching Questions for Leaders
“I don’t have time to coach!” or “I don’t have the skills to coach!” are phrases we commonly hear from leaders we work with. As you can probably attest to, many leaders are now required to incorporate coaching into their daily work, and it is a responsibility that many understandably shy away from due to […]
Workers like beer and ping-pong, but appreciation is more important
Which one of these sounds like more fun: having a beer and playing ping-pong with your friends or someone thanking you for some good work? You might jump at the beer and ping-pong option, but at work, getting a nice thank-you is a bigger driver of fun. That’s according to new research on work appreciation from the […]