Quiet Team Leader. Definitely a high point to be featured by Dan McCarthy on his Great Leadership Bog. This post was inspired by a woman who was on my team for five years. Rose is the quintessential quiet leader, who sets the tone, raises the bar and urges others to be better and do…
Month: March 2017
Attract the Life You Want. Pull Don’t Push: My First Blog on Sixty&Me!
Attract the life you want. Many business lessons are applicable to our non-work lives. It’s all a matter of how we understand the lesson and apply it to our circumstances. My hope is to make the link from the lessons we’ve learned in our professional lives to action for readers based on these sound business…
Interview with Mike Schikman on Managing Annoying People
What a great interview with Mike Schikman! Managing Annoying People includes Mike’s crazy neighbor, who likes to shoot a cannon off after his favorite football team wins. And that drives all of the neighbors crazy because they root for the other team. That certainly is annoying. Best advice, take it down a notch. Have…
28:44: The mark to listen to me on School for Startups!
Thanks to Jim Beach for a great interview on School for Startups. The show features interviews with entrepreneurs and authors who share advice with listeners looking to grow their business or start one. Jim Beach is a recognized leader in entrepreneurship, a featured speaker, author of the book School for Startups, and host of the radio…
What’s so Special About Annoying People? Hosted by Tom Borg
Tom Borg, Customer Profitability Expert, made time to talk with me about why annoying people are special. His probing questions reveal team dynamics and relationship issues that every manager should avoid. Listen and learn. Thanks, Tom. Any questions? http://recording.freeconferencecalling.com/mp3/1027635/520848/IA9688_10112016073118800_1077956.mp3 Tom Borg is a customer profitability expert who works with small business owners and their teams….
Signs You Can’t Trust Your Boss – as Quoted in Reader’s Digest & MSN!
Trust is a cornerstone of business relationships between customers and suppliers and between bosses and subordinates. It’s even more complicated in day-to-day working relationships. Between roles, responsibilities, work product, team dynamics, it can get confusing. I like the age old rule of: Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Here…
Build Powerful Engaged Teams: Guest Blog on ShiftWorkplace.com
It has been a real pleasure to work with Shift Management on presenting the Managing Annoying People Webinar and writing a guest blog on Powerful Engaged teams. You know I like to say, tend to your PETS (Powerful Engaged Teams) to drive success. Maire Gervais, Ph.D, CEO of Shift Management says: You need employees who can make…
Make Leading a Better Job – My Guest Blog in CEO Magazine!
Every now and then we are asked to do something that scares us. As entrepreneurs, leaders and fearless business mentors, we know we need to do it. That’s how I felt when CEO Magazine asked me to be a guest blogger. And we all know the story — what pushes me, makes me stronger. How…
3 Playing Favorites at Work Secrets You Never Knew – With quotes from RBJ!
Is playing favorites ever a good idea? There are always two sides (or more) to a story and in each situation we may not have the whole picture. Short answer – playing favorites is never a good idea. True answer – someone will play favorites and it will impact the team dynamic. The question “How…