What do your employees really want? Jumping to conclusions isn’t safe, but to be a better manager, remember these basic truths about everyone who works for you.
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Category: Employers
Challenge Potential Leaders with These Valuable Experiences
Experience is the best teacher for leadership development. Your job is to provide the experiences that will develop your employees’ leadership skills.
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Why Performance Falls Short: Explore These Reasons
Poor job performance can have many different causes. When a member of your workforce isn’t meeting your organization’s needs, examine these factors before taking action…
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Review Your Vision to Keep It Vital
Every healthy organization has a vision to guide it. Just as your own eyes need a regular checkup, your organization’s vision may need some adjustment from time to time. Stay on the right track with these questions…
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How to Find Quality Candidates When Unemployment Is Low
It is a simple law of supply and demand: when there are more candidates, you have a better pool of qualified applicants. In a low unemployment market, you have fewer job seekers and they may not have the skills you need.
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Changing Course? Follow These Guidelines
Changing an organization’s direction is difficult, but sometimes it’s necessary. Whether you lead a workforce of two people or 2,000, pay attention to these change management fundamentals…
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Don’t Let Workplace Blues Slow You Down
Keeping your spirits up in today’s hectic business environment can sometimes be difficult. Here is a list of things to do when you feel negativity and self-doubt creeping in…
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Fix Your Team When Trouble Strikes
Even the most successful teams hit an occasional rough patch. As a leader, it’s your job to watch out for interpersonal conflicts that can derail their best efforts.
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Try the ‘70 Percent Rule’ When Delegating
If you’re like many managers, you have a hard time deciding which tasks to delegate and which to keep to yourself. If you want to develop your employees’ skills and responsibilities through delegation, though, try this rule.
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Persistence “Bears” All
Last week I was at the bowling alley playing a bear claw game. My five-year-old son wanted to win a “stuffy” (what he calls stuffed animals). While he has hundreds of “stuffies,” I always find myself trying to win another one…even though odds are its going to take 10 times to win a prize that will probably be forgotten by the next day.
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