You come in the office and the coffee pot has exactly one mug left in it. Later your luck continues as you use the last of the toilet paper and the final hand towel in the dispenser. Without a blink, you just go about your day. Now think about the person who followed you in … Continue reading Pride in the Name of Your Career
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What You Do Next is the Key…
While watching the Home Run Derby last night, I started to think about all of the players that flamed out after a year or two. Players like Mark Fidrych, Mark Prior, Joe Charboneau, and Dontrelle Willis. They all had tremendous initial success, but were not able to sustain it. This is compared to a player … Continue reading What You Do Next is the Key…
Managing Change
The business world and life in general are full of challenges. How you respond to those challenges makes all of the difference as a leader. Most of your business challenges are brought on by your competitors. To lead your team and beat your competition, you need to do the following: Analyze where and why your … Continue reading Managing Change
When Someone Calls Your Baby Ugly
Have you ever been presenting an idea which you think is great and revolutionary only to have everyone in the room mock it? This phenomenon is known as having your baby called ugly. You feel terrible and begin to doubt yourself. Depending on how long you have worked on the idea, you feel like you … Continue reading When Someone Calls Your Baby Ugly
Preparing for a Meeting- a Lost Art
By the time you reach your forties, you will have attended literally thousands of meetings. According to Effectivemeetings.com through a white paper by MCI, the average worker attends 61.8 meetings per month and 50% of the meeting time is considered wasted. That means you are potentially wasting a work week per month in meetings that … Continue reading Preparing for a Meeting- a Lost Art
Are You Really Prepared?
Scar from the Lion King could not be more prophetic. If you want to be successful in life, you need to make sure you are prepared. However, even he did not follow his own advice and underestimated the ease of leading a team. As a new leader, you need to learn the balance between being … Continue reading Are You Really Prepared?
Integrating a New Team Member
One of the hardest things to do is accept a new team member- whether they are a new hire, a veteran of the company moved to your team, or a third party vendor/consultant. Most people’s natural reaction is to be cordial but guarded. The new person’s reaction is to try to impress. This leaves for … Continue reading Integrating a New Team Member
When to Follow Up
My colleague and I were discussing the art of following up from meetings. It actually started out trying to decide when someone said tomorrow, next week, and in a few days what they actually meant. That being said, follow up timing is a key skill that most people lack. The reason a meeting was held … Continue reading When to Follow Up
Five Old Ways That Still Work
The business world that we live in changes instantaneously. Hundreds of new ways to reach, engage and measure are added to your landscape every day. Thousands of business gurus tell you that you need to stop doing things the old way, that old ways don’t work, etc. I agree with that assessment to a point. … Continue reading Five Old Ways That Still Work
6 Key Traits to be Positively Perceived at Work!
If you listen to talk radio, there is a commercial for online reputation management. They clean up unsavory marks against you which of course are undeserved. They do not get to the root issue of why those remarks were made. Just that you can clean them up. There are corporate courses that teach you reputation … Continue reading 6 Key Traits to be Positively Perceived at Work!
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