March 28, 2009

Handling your Under Performers

photo credit: Rhymes… Often as managers and executives, we have to handle the under performers from time to time. This can be a daunting and difficult task depending on how many there are and how severe the situation. You simply can’t tolerate under performance. Budgets are too tight, margins are too close, and the need […]

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Focus on results

photo credit: bossco In a recent article, a man from a university questioned on how to go from a non-profit mentality to a profit-mentality. The question was re-phrased to “how to focus on results” by Marshall Goldsmith with good reason. Most people would not be too eager to hear about how someone is only wanting

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Increasing employee commitment

photo credit: ArtemFinland Managers often ask the number one question that is sometime’s hard to answer depending on the company, how do we get our employees to become more committed and involved in the company? Judith Bardwick wrote a book regarding this matter and she had some suggestions that may help you. People are more

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Counterproductive communication

photo credit: barto While business spend a lot of time figuring out new way’s of communication that will increase work activity and eventually revenue, we are forgetting about the form’s of communication that actually work against our company, such as gossiping about yourself or other’s around you. What percent of all interpersonal communication time in

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Crash course in leadership

photo credit: U.S. Department of State When some managers reach the point in their careers where they no longer have the option to rely on their skill’s to continue up the corporate ladder, they find themselves in a great dismay. Now what? Now they rely on someone else taking control. The number one saying that

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