Feeling Stuck?
Years ago, I tried reading and implementing David Allen’s Getting Things Done system, with hit-or-miss success. Although I gave up on much of the David Allen GTD system, one of my favorite books is by him. “Ready for Anything: 52…
Let’s End 2019 Well and Start 2020 Strong!
As we find ourselves in this breather between Christmas and the new year, below is an exercise to help you take time to pause and reflect, before turning your focus forward to your upcoming objectives for the new year.
Handling the White-Water of Change
Handling leadership changes can be unsettling at best, and frustrating and emotionally draining at worst. If you’re a leader helping your team stay focused during these times, composure (the ability to handle stress) and empathy are critical for navigating changes…
Helping Employees Understand the Four Stages of Behavior Change
Helping employees adopt a mindset for positive behavioral change can be a challenge. Positive and negative behaviors affect an individual’s productivity and communications, team functions, and interactions with clients. Performance-based behavioral assessments are helpful tools to identify the strengths and…
Leadership is Listening
“Leaders who don’t listen will eventually be surrounded by people who have nothing to say.” —Andy Stanley While you or I could tell a new hire or current employee exactly what areas they need to focus on developing, and…
8 Steps for Making the Most of Reference Checks
Your hiring process should look something like the photo to the left, with two additional steps – assessment before the interview (to provide feedback to deepen your interview), and reference checks between the interview and offer. Hiring decisions should take…
Assessments – Looking Past First Impressions
A smartly dressed and polished candidate walks into your interview and presents herself very well. Her resume speaks highly of her achievements. Perfect scores, a stellar track record and even volunteering experience! She must be the one for the job,…
The End of One Year is the Beginning of the Next
“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…
5 Steps for Decreasing Stress and Developing Composure
“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…
Staffing Decisions – Pay Attention to Character and Integrity
“By themselves character and integrity do not accomplish anything. But their absence faults everything else. Here is an area where weakness is an absolute disqualification.” – Peter Drucker To some extent hiring is always a gamble, but all too many…