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5 Reasons You’re Not The Best Person To Teach Your Employees
Ok, so you should onboard new employees, make sure that they understand the mission and goals of your department, review policies and procedures, go over …
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Tagged brown bag, business readiness success, growing leaders, influence, leadership, mentoring, shadowing, talent development, teaching
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Who’s On Your New Employee’s Integration Team?
In an earlier post, I wrote about career transitions and creating a plan to ensure quick and thorough transition of knowledge and job responsibilities. People transitioning out …
Whipped Cream on a Cow Pie: People Skills Without Love
Teaching “people skills” to leaders who don’t care about people is like putting whipped cream on a cow pie. When you take a bite, it’s …
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Tagged 360 degree feedback, change, coaching, communication, communication style, emotional intelligence, employee engagement, executive leadership development, feedback, growing leaders, leadership, leadership development, love, organization leadership, people skills, performance management, relationship effectiveness, talent development, trust
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The Training Webinar is Dead
Dear Corporate Training Departments, It’s time to kill the training webinar. For years your employees have put up with tech checks (“Can you see the …
5 Practices for Effective Career Transitions
Career transitions can be exciting times. Good leaders encourage their people to take ownership of their careers and pursue new opportunities, and in the most …
Talent Development Super Bowl Style
Oh performance management – such a disappointment! Costs a fortune (in both time and $), takes forever and because its backwards looking and the feedback …
Micro-Mentoring: Why One Mentor Isn’t Enough
Many of us used to equate the ideal mentor to a gray haired, senior executive in the corner office. This expert had all the answers and …
Don’t Waste Your Organization’s Time and Money on Assessments
I have a love-hate relationship with behavior style assessments. Used appropriately, they can be fantastic tools for organizations to assess fit and to increase people’s …
The Lesson of Johnny Manziel: Is Assessing Potential an Art or a Science?
Saturday night Johnny Manziel won the Heisman Trophy two years after only two Division 1 schools showed real interest in him as a quarterback. Two. …
Count Your Blessings @ Work
It’s that time of year. Buy the turkey and cranberries, invite the relatives over and, of course, we count our blessings. This year I can’t help …