How to Become the Boss
Purposeful Performance Reviews
He's Not Your Boss, I Am…
I recently worked with a client, we'll call her Sharon, who was having a "Chain of Command" issue. One of the Sharon's employees, who we'll call Kevin, went over Sharon's head to discuss a project with Sharon's boss, Dave. Sharon was the director of this project and...
Becoming The Boss
I'm gonna let you in on a little secret that leads to major workplace conflicts. The skill set necessary for becoming the boss usually has little to do with the skill set necessary for being the boss. People often get promoted for being the top performer in their...
Affordable Workplace Incentives
How can you motivate your employees to do the best work in the least amount of time when you're working from a limited budget? This is a question that every manager has pondered since the emergence of the first formal organization. But there's good news on the...
Overcoming Inertia
As we begin the New Year, most of us have set personal and professional goals to achieve over the next 12 months. Here are a few thoughts as you begin your quest to self-fulfillment: Losers quit when they fail. Winners fail until they succeed. The KSA...
Entitled Idiots? Meet The Millennials
“These headphone-wearing, disrespectful, entitled idiots…well not idiots, but kids, they’re just kids.” This was how an upper level manager at a national construction company described his Generation Y coworkers. Generation Y, or the Millennials, are born between the...
Difficult Conversations, Different Races, and Life Fertilizer
If you disagree with someone, how do you know when to rip off the band-aid or when to make a constructive criticism sandwich? People who rip off band-aids are always blunt and to the point with their ideas, whereas our sandwich makers prefer to provide compliments and...
Running Out of Time
“I don’t have time.” How many times do you say this throughout your week? With an overly saturated media environment, the challenging demands of work, family obligations, and socializing, there is little time left to do anything. The problem I here repetitively from...
Collaborative Competition…That's Not Possible
The world as we know it wouldn’t exist without collaborative actions and healthy competition. Most of us prefer one of these two ways of thinking and acting over the other, but they are both necessary components of an effective organizational environment. Problems...
