The Small Business Polar Vortex
Waking up daily the past three weeks to single digit temperatures has me seeing the current Polar Vortex I’m living through as a metaphor for many small business work environments.
Many suffer from their own Polar Vortex in the workplace as co-workers and business leaders freeze out each other from communicating about vital issues.
The …
Could Today’s Bullies Be Tomorrow’s Corporate Executives?
Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Facebook, is an outstanding advocate for women’s workplace equality. In her best selling book, Lean In: Women, Work And The Will To Lead, Sheryl provides daunting statistics that show women aren’t getting what they deserve in today’s workplace. One of the reasons women don’t get what they deserve, according to Sandberg, …
Stop Talking About These Three Things!
When building a business or career, you are always conscious of your reputation and “brand.” And nothing can be more powerful or damaging than the things you say or talk about most. Below are three statements or conversations that people tend to frequently use or talk about that can be quite damaging or at the …
Great Leaders H.A.V.e What It Takes to Lead
People follow leaders for just one of two reasons. It is either because they have to, or because they want to.
The difference is that leaders whose followers follow because they have to, apply position power. Position power is that granted them by their title in the organization and how it relates to those that …
Personal Branding Weekly – The Owner’s Brand
“If it’s going to be, it’s up to me” – Robert Schuller
Your brand is up to you. You either rationalize that you don’t have time to focus on it, don’t think it matters, and don’t know where to start or you focus on it and take ownership of it.
Rationalizing is just like it …
The Magic Ingredient that Creates a High Performing Workplace
Developing a high-performing workplace is not as mysterious as small business owners make it seem.
So many struggle with getting employees to:
do more than the minimum job requirements to take initiative on their own to get things done to make decisions for which the owner feels they are paying them for to show up…How to Resign without Burning the Bridges
Whether it is for a new position or you are moving to a new location, it is time for you to move on. As a result, you decided to quit from your current position. However, keep in mind that resigning is easy but resigning without burning any bridges is not. Therefore, in order not to …
The Holy Grail of Workplace Motivation
Human motivation is complex.
Motivating humans in the workplace seems be a question business owners continue to struggle with.
I’ve also have found two key factors that motivate consistently across all generations in the workplace: autonomy and transparency.
AutonomyHuman beings are autonomous creatures. We all want to have autonomy over how we live, work …
How Much Growth is Healthy? When is Maintenance Better?
We’re a society that’s obsessed with change and growth, and in many ways that’s a great thing. When a person challenges himself to learn new skills, acquire new positive behaviors, adjust to transitions, assume new responsibilities, he typically becomes broader, more productive and emotionally mature. While this is true for most people, it’s also true …
Three Words for 2014
Standing out in your career begins with standing out in life which begins with standing for something. What do you stand for?
I’m sure you stand for a whole lot more than Three Words. However, I have found that using three words serves as a litmus test for what I post, what I commit to, …