“Be filled with an enthusiasm for living, a joyous expectation of the more that is to be, and gratitude for what has been.” — Ernest Holmes It’s the end of one year, and soon will be the beginning of the…
“Many times crisis results when composure is missing.” – Glenn Llopis In my previous post A Closer Look at Composure I touched on what composure is. In this post I’m going to give you five steps that will decrease stress, and…
Composure…“Remember when life’s path is steep to keep your mind even.” — Horace 65-68 BC What image does “keeping an even mind” bring? For some it may bring calmness: the ability to reassure and lead when a disaster strikes. It…
Helping people adopt a mindset for positive behavioral change can be a challenge. The truth of the matter is, both positive and negative behaviors affect an individual’s productivity, communication, team functions, and interactions with clients. Performance-based behavioral assessments like the…
Recently, I was reading the results of a study by the Harvard Business Review. Their findings indicated that “when it comes to garnering commitment and engagement from employees, there’s one thing that leaders need to demonstrate: respect.” They claim that…
For those of us who aren’t clairvoyant, let’s peer into our Magic 8 Ball for best ways to improve employee engagement levels among millennials. Bad idea! The Magic 8 Ball keeps telling me to try again. So, what IS the…
Sometimes it’s not the people you are hiring who are the problem. When employee turnover is high, it’s often the existing workforce (management) that is the problem. And make no mistake; functioning candidates who join your workforce and experience bad…
It’s typically not the big things that make someone leave an organization, check but it’s a number of seemingly small “last straw” issues that get under people’s skin and will make good employees quit. One of the first questions I…
“Only in quiet waters do things mirror themselves undistorted. Only in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world.” ?Hans Margolius It’s sometimes called the “ripple effect” when something disturbs still water, remedy and what had started as small…
You always need to remain proactive in your approach to succession management. A recent Wall Street Journal article advises that “management should maintain a succession chart providing details about the background and skills of promising internal professionals and roles they…