How many times have you been asked to consider your strengths and weaknesses? I’ve been asked to self-disclose my weaknesses about a million tim...
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Most of us hate performance management programs. Why? Because: Performance management is usually seen as a bureaucratic HR process you are forced to d...
Read MorePerformance Management Fails And 6 Steps You Can Use To Fix It
Maybe you saw the news footage, a baggage handler in the cargo hold of a 737 ‘unloading’ passenger luggage by throwing each bag as hard as he coul...
Read MoreDon’t Forget The Janitors – Having Engaged Employees Is Hard When You Run Out Of Toilet Paper
It is questionable if ‘No’ is a full sentence, but it is a terrible answer to give another human being. Whether you are a parent, a spouse or a bo...
Read More7 Scripts To Say No With Respect
One of the great pleasures of my life is having thoughtful conversations with children. Being an Uncle and a friend of children relieves me of the par...
Read MoreThe 6 Essential Questions You Can Ask Children & Employees
As a manager, the chances are that at one time you were an expert. But as your career advanced, you were promoted to a job outside of your specialty. ...
Read More4 Tactics You Can Use To Lead People Who Know More than You Do
Heard of the term SNAFU? It is a military acronym short for ‘Situation Normal – All F&%$ed Up.” The best, or worst, SNAFU’s I ever saw was...
Read MoreDigital Leadership SNAFU’s – The one question you need to ask before your next email or text.
Recently I provided advice to employees who think they had been screwed over because they were passed over for a promotion. In that post, the employee...
Read MoreHow To Avoid Screwing An Employee Over When Denying A Promotion
A friend told me that she had been angling for a promotion at work. She had been there 5 years, done good work and felt she was ready. When she had as...
Read MoreSo, You Got Screwed Over – 9 Ways To Handle Being Denied A Promotion
We all know that it’s important to hire good leaders, but what happens when you make a poor leadership hiring decision? Consider the effects of hiri...
Read More3 Actions To Avoid Hiring a Bad Leader
In this Webinar we discussed How To Respond to the #MeToo Movement And, as A Leader How Can You Create A Safe Workplace We will discuss the 5 reasons ...
Read More#MeToo & Where do we go from here – Webinar Recording
*Warning: This blog contains a non-graphic discussion of sexual violence* FYI the post is 1,200 words and contains an invitation to a webinar on the s...
Read More13 Actions to Stay Human and Not Be a Creepy Boss in a #MeToo World
*Warning: This blog contains a non-graphic discussion of sexual violence* FYI the post is 1,600 words, provides 10 actionable steps you can tak...
Read MoreAs A Leader, How Do You Support #MeToo? 10 Actions To Help You Respond
A pencil is a little wonder-wand: a stick of wood that traces the tiniest motions of your hand as it moves across a surface … As a tool, it is admir...
Read MoreColoured-pencils, Nail-polish & How You Can Get Dedicated Employees
I have been working with leaders for almost a very long time, and in this blog, I’ve distilled down the “secret habits” that define the best lea...
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