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How to Stop Micromanaging and Motivate People to Top Performance
Removing Obstacles to Success
January 14, 12:11 pm
By Dan Bobinski
Director, The Center for Workplace Excellence
For those who’ve wondered “where the heck is Dan?” (or some other form of the same question), the answer has been: Nose to the grindstone, cranking out the manuscript for my next book, Creating Passion-Driven Teams.
Last week, the first phase of the project wrapped up.
I have to […]
November 13, 11:15 am
By Dan Bobinski
Director, The Center for Workplace Excellence
The other day I came across an article that said the average US worker spends approximately two hours each day taking care of personal business, such phone calls, e-mail, personal shopping, and the like. If these are eight-hour workdays, that’s a substantial chunk of time, and an equally large […]
September 29, 4:13 am
Ask any supervisor, manager, or leader what is necessary for building a solid, dedicated team, and you’re likely to get a wide range of answers. The reason? People value different aspects of teamwork. Therefore, individual preferences in teambuilding and comfort zones affect what people believe to be important.
I’m no different. But as a consultant and […]
August 28, 4:10 am
Yesterday I related some of the ways morale was being destroyed at a friend’s workplace. After a bit of investigation, I learned the changes will cause at least 15 employees to leave – twenty percent of the workforce. And that’s just to start.
One of the reasons the company wants to make changes is to save […]
August 27, 4:08 am
The following list is by no means exhaustive — there are thousands of ways to kill employee morale. But here are a few that emerged from a conversation with a friend of mine the other day. He was sharing with me some of the changes going on at his work, and talking about the number of […]
April 1, 10:04 am
Last year at this time I started posting cool things to do with your employees each month. Some months got missed, but we’ll fill them in this year. This year I’ll probably add some cool things to do for each month, and we’ll start by adding to my list from last April. Here goes:
Naturally, April […]
March 14, 2:23 pm
We love new inventions, and the Internet is one of them. Rank it up there with the light bulbs, the wheel, and 18volt power drivers on the list of AWESOME inventions. But the Internet if vastly different than those other inventions–because YOU play a part in it. Web-based services are now ubiquitous, and only God knows how many pages of info […]