Removing Obstacles to Success
September 11, 4:37 am
If you’re stepping up to a manager’s position for first time, congratulations! Somebody thinks you have what it takes to make things happen. But allow me to give you some valuable advice. Forget the skills you relied on to be successful in your previous position—except the following:
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August 29, 4:35 am
Garry Kranz has a great snippet over at Workforce Management on how managers actually hinder the efforts to achieve company goals.
Kranz quotes a bit of research showing that more often than not, companies are unable achieve performance goals because managers are at a loss for how to have “difficult performance discussions” with underachieving employees.
My initial […]
August 16, 4:17 am
After years spent traveling and eating at restaurants of many different calibers and ethnicities, I’ve come to realize that training for wait staff at many restaurants could be, well … better.
So, based on input from veteran wait staff professionals, here are three tips that servers can use to differentiate themselves from the average food service […]
July 25, 2:55 pm
A video report on FoxNews.com explains how high schools in the state of Georgia are using dropout prevention coaches to improve graduation rates. When one considers the difference in lifetime wages between high school graduates and non-graduates, this is an extremely wise investment on the part of Georgia’s school board.
Most of us have at least […]
July 13, 4:10 pm
“So ya wanna be successful?” If you answer ‘yes’ to that question (and I don’t know too many who wouldn’t), then it might help to think of yourself as an entrepreneur—even if you’re employed.
This concept of branding yourself was made popular by workplace issue guru Tom Peters in his book The Brand You 50 : […]
July 2, 10:37 am
Is there a way to focus people on getting a problem solved instead of sitting around griping about it? The answer is ‘yes,’ and it revolves around three simple questions. Ask these three questions when faced with a project or a problem and get results faster — and with more focus.
June 21, 10:43 pm
What are the trends for hiring an executive coach? According to a press release by the Novations Group out of Boston (with a hat tip to Management-Issues.com), here are the figures, taken only from companies that actually use coaching:
We increasingly rely on coaching - 19%
We rely on coaching at about the same rate as in […]
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