That’s right. Once a week I meet with every single person on my team. Sometimes our meetings are 15 minutes, other times a half hour. I even ask them to complete a weekly form before our meeting. I adapted it from Cy Wakeman’s Reality Based Leadership book and it covers some very basic concepts: What […]
Leadership
Ten Simple Ways To Be A Great Manager
Ten quick tips on how to be the great manager your employees want: 1. Ask their opinion But only do this if you actually care. And do not shut down their ideas with laughter or bad body language. You may say “great idea” but your body language or laughter, says something different. 2. Take their […]
It’s About The Heart – Why You Should Never Counter Offer
We spend a lot of time talking about retaining our best people. Too many times though, we wait until our star gives us their resignation notice and then we try the worst tactic possible – the counter offer. Some managers scurry about trying to figure out how to get the employee to stay, they believe […]
Where Leaders Go Wrong
Does the thought of issuing orders and having your loyal minions follow those orders without question make you jealous? Do you yearn for the “good old days” when people just did what they were told? There’s nothing wrong with that, if you are the Wizard of Oz or some other kind of dictator. But if […]
Are You The Man (or Woman) Behind The Curtain?
Wizard of Oz Spoiler Alert! The Wizard of Oz is a mysterious and terrifying leader. Sitting atop his castle, he appears to his subjects as a frightening, disembodied head. Only after Dorothy and her motley crew visit, do we realize that the Wizard is actually just a short little man behind a curtain! Unfortunately, the […]