"Good help is hard to find" or is it? Scott Wintrip, staffing expert and author of High Velocity Hiring: How to Hire Top Talent in an Instant says that help is available, but your beliefs about hiring are preventing you from filling jobs quickly and keeping them filled. If you are struggling to fill positions, Wintrip urges you to examine your beliefs about hiring to ensure … [Read more...]
Be Honest: What Legacy Will You Leave Behind?
By Jaimy Ford I lost nearly two hours on Twitter today, "absorbing" all the political news that has come out in the last couple of days. But this isn't a time-management post, nor will I make it a political post. I think most of us endure enough of that as it is. Nope, this post is about legacy, because I kept seeing the word pop up in my Twitter feed. People were … [Read more...]
Why All Great Leaders are Salespeople at Heart
Leaders are salespeople—and great leaders are great salespeople. You may not buy my idea (after all, I am trying to sell it to you). If you don’t buy this premise it’s probably because you have some beliefs/images/thoughts about sales people that contradict your beliefs/images/thoughts about leaders. If you already buy my idea then you will love what’s to come. If you … [Read more...]
10 Nurturing Habits That Can Transform Your Company
Too many workplaces are missing the kindness factor, and it's more damaging than you might realize, says Dr. Susan Mangiero, leadership coach and author of The Big Squeeze: Hugs & Inspirations for Every Grown-Up Who Loves Teddy Bears. Why? Because kindness is integral to employee engagement—and cultures of engagement are integral to high-performance organizations. "Doing … [Read more...]
Generalist vs. Specialist: Which Should You Hire?
By Brian Cristiano, founder of BOLD Worldwide. One of your most important roles as a new leader will be recruiting the right employees . These folks will not only partake in daily tasks to help your team run smoothly, they will also act as the face of your organization, which is why it’s important to take time to find and employ the “right” employees. They should be eager to … [Read more...]
6 Questions You Must Ask Yourself Every Single Day
As your leader, your job is about so much more than checking tasks off a to-do list and telling your staff what to do. You have the power to make a real difference in the business and in the lives of your employees. You need to always be thinking about the big picture and how you can move the team and organization forward. You need to come up with ways to make things run … [Read more...]
Negative Vs. Positive Leadership (and Why You Should Choose the Latter)
If you're a leader, best-selling author Jon Gordon wants you to take this message to heart: Spreading negative energy solves nothing. In fact, it causes people to shut down. Morale suffers, employees disengage, productivity takes a hit, and profits fall. "It's easy to get upset and derailed by anger when things go wrong, but then the issue gets lost because you mismanaged … [Read more...]
The New Leader’s First Team Meeting
We recently received this question: Do you have any tips for communicating with my team as a new leader? In today's video, I'm going to answer this question from a slightly different angle by helping leaders lead their first team meeting - providing ideas and solutions for how to communicate and what to communicate in this very important … [Read more...]
4 Reasons to Conduct a 360 Leadership Assessment
One of the best tools for accelerating your leadership development is a 360 Assessment. The gist is this: Eight to 10 of your coworkers, and specifically your employees, spend some time assessing your abilities to lead, manage, communicate, motivate and more. So whether you are a team leader or the CEO of a company, you should be soliciting that kind of feedback, especially … [Read more...]
10 Ways Meetings Drain the Life from Your Team
We've all attended meetings that were a big waste of time. There are many ways meetings can go wrong, but as a manager, you can prevent many of those problems. Check your meeting behaviors against the following list, and make changes if you’re guilty of any of these sins: Meeting for the sake of meeting. Don’t fall into the rut of scheduling a marketing meeting for Tuesday … [Read more...]