Do You Ever Use Excuses at Work?
As a leader, do you ever use excuses at work? It's understandable there may be parts of your job that you don't like or things that are out of your [...]
Mar, 30
2022
Mar, 29
2022
Productivity Power Question
Managers can boost the performance of their teams by asking a productivity power question. It's designed to uncover low-priority, time consuming tasks. These are the things that keep your team [...]
Mar, 28
2022
Creating More Effective Meetings
The road to creating more effective meetings can begin by better defining next steps. This can lead to more action and less ambiguity about the future. In a recent LinkedIn [...]
Mar, 23
2022
Make Things Easy
Whether it's selling to customers or engaging your employees, you want to make things easy for them. Think about those times when you ran into a policy or a procedure [...]
Mar, 22
2022
Workload Subtraction
Very often on the job, leaders find themselves constantly adding tasks and responsibilities, while never thinking about workload subtraction. Yes, all of your duties are important and need to be [...]
Mar, 21
2022
When an Employee Brings You a Problem
What happens when an employee brings you a problem? As a leader, you may discover that finding a solution is harder than you thought. And it may have nothing to [...]
Mar, 16
2022
How to Solve an Ongoing Problem
While they can be annoying and inconvenient, leaders need to know how to solve an ongoing problem. Otherwise, you may allow a small issue to grow. These may be more [...]
Mar, 15
2022
Is Everything Urgent?
When productive leaders start to feel overwhelmed, it's good to ask, "Is everything urgent?" Because if you're not careful, you can start to treat every task as being extremely urgent. [...]
Mar, 14
2022
Four Work-Life Balance Tips
Do you feel like you need some work-life balance tips? For some, the line between work and home has blurred over the past few years. And technology may feel like [...]
Mar, 9
2022
Communicate Importance and Urgency
Leaders can improve employee productivity and performance by learning how to communicate importance and urgency. Often, people are led to believe that every task they're given is important. As a [...]