Your Employees: Go Ahead and Love Them

Your Employees: Go Ahead and Love Them

February is “love” season. You know, Valentines Day and all. In terms of the workplace, it kind of begs the question, “Can we show love at work?” In this day and age of harassment suits and political correctness, many managers shy away from showing love for their...
Get Promoted Using Self-Deprecation

Get Promoted Using Self-Deprecation

The more self-aware you are the greater your leadership effectiveness will be. In a recent study from PDI Ninth House and the University of Minnesota, researchers found that leaders who were out of touch with how others perceived them were more likely to see their...
How to Rate Employee Performance

How to Rate Employee Performance

The end of the year is performance evaluation time for many organizations.  If you are expected to assign a rating to the performance of your employees, consider five perspectives that can take the pain out of this often dreaded process. All levels of the scale should...
Employee Owners or Employee Renters?

Employee Owners or Employee Renters?

Employees are a lot like cars.  The amount of care, attention to detail, and feelings of permanency we project toward our cars is comparable to the way employees view the employer-employee relationship.  Consider this analogy. Employee Renters   When we rent a car,...
Working Your Strategic Plan

Working Your Strategic Plan

Has your organization joined the many that are embarking on a strategic plan?  Public sector organizations are turning to strategic plans en masse with the hope of defining a better future.  Beautiful documents are being created to represent visions of a better...
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