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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: Rapid Realignment
Spend some quality time with the new book, Rapid Realignment, and you’ll learn how to ensure that your strategy, customers, processes and people work seamlessly together in the service of customers...
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9 Ways To Improve Your Virtual Meetings
Business leaders and employees are holding virtual meetings more than ever. Despite the cost-saving and other advantages, virtual meetings versus in-person meetings have their challenges. One of the...
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Work Reimagined Connects Experienced Workers With Interested Hiring Businesses
Older displaced leaders seeking work have a new online resource to help connect them with businesses with a special interest in workers with long experience. AARP launched a new website in July...
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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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What I’ve Learned About 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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The Best Times To Coach. The Best Times To Counsel.
A good manager is both a coach and a counselor. Generally, coaching should precede counseling. As a coach, a manager: identifies an employee’s need for instruction and direction and this need is...
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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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Leaders: How To Build Trust
You can’t lead if your employees, team or followers don’t trust you. Building trust takes energy, effort and constant attention to how you act. To help build trust, follow these 16 tips, recommended...
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Be A Leader Who Teaches
Take the opportunity today to teach an employee something new. Nearly everyone likes to learn and is capable of tackling a new challenge. Teach your employee something that expands his (or her)...
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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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7 Ways To Create 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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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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How To Engage Your Employees
Here are 10 tips for how to maximize employee involvement: Have active ways to listen to your employees. Check often with employees to see if the information you are sharing with them is what they...
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How To Maximize Employee Engagement
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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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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