As a leader, start off this year with a team activity that can build team productivity for the entire year! Forget about the useless task of encouraging the team to write resolutions. It’s a waste of precious time, and does not inspire anyone for any substantive amount of time.
Five tips leaders can take to turn the ‘not-so-engaged’ employee into an ‘actively engaged employee’ and reap huge bottom-line benefits.
Every leader needs to understand Surge Capacity and its impact on the productivity of the team! Discover the AC-DC Model as a powerful tool to revitalize your team and boost productivity.
A Mentoring Mindset is one of the most valuable core abilities a leader can develop. Discover how to develop a Mentoring Mindset so you see every situation as a learning opportunity; stay in touch with what your people are doing, and casually or intentionally provide guidance, wisdom, skills, recommendations, and resources to grow the professional maturity and ability of all your people.
How to empower your people and help them be accountable — and engaged.
As long as people have words and emotions, we will have difficult encounters in the workplace that sabotage success! In fact, one of the biggest reasons I am called in to organizations is to facilitate team building sessions to help people understand each other better and learn how to be extraordinary as a team, even if team members don’t necessarily “like” each other.
Five tips leaders can learn to give positive feedback to employees. Harvard research says employees need 6:1 ratio of positive to negative feedback, but we never teach leaders how to do it effectively. Here are five tips to build the skill of giving feedback to improves productivity and employee engagement.
The best leaders who coach, mentor and empower use these 8 strategies.
Spoiler Alert! Wildlife biologists inform us that the full display of antlers is almost a definite giveaway that none of Santa’s reindeer are males. Read on for the details and a personal challenge!
Here’s a quick quiz based on research-driven characteristics, that can help you see if you are an “Engagement-Driven Leader.” Check yourself out, then come back and identify the characteristics where you need help. Create a personal action plan to begin developing your leadership skills, so you can truly be extraordinary!
Sometimes the best lessons about employee engagement come to us from children! Here are my five biggest take-aways from watching my grandson at play with children he did not know. I invite you to consider integrating into your leadership style as you build an environment conducive to engagement and commitment.
As an Extraordinary Leader, you approach every situation as a “teachable moment.” I call that leading with a Mentoring Mindset. This means you are always on the lookout for ways to help your employees grow and develop their skills. Even when mistakes are made, there are opportunities for learning.
Are you an Engagement-Driven Leader? Use this 12-point checklist to see how you measure up!
Research reports that 8% of the global workforce is made up of “workplace prisoners” – actively disengaged employees who aren’t happy, but won’t leave. How you can break free of yours!
Extraordinary leaders are always looking for ways to get their employees more engaged, enthusiastic, productive, and passionate about their jobs. Here are four ways leaders can create an employee engagement-rich environment.
Are Employee Engagement Surveys really helpful? In my work as an Impact Consultant specializing in Extraordinary Leadership, I have seen Employee Engagement Surveys used as a “have to do” exercise rather than a strategic part of the business strategy. Let’s get rid of the surveys and try this technique.
Leaders: Use this Gratitude Calendar during the month of November to create an environment that will build engagement and improve results!
Everyone says they WANT employee engagement … but how can you tell if you are really hitting the mark? Even more powerful than surveys and assessments, here’s a technique every manager and leader can do … and the cost is zero dollars! The ROI is incredible! If you’re willing to invest some time, try this to measure the engagement quotient of your department
You bet your bottom-line success on the abilities of your front-line people to make powerful, professional connections with current and potential customers! Are you doing everything you can to guarantee success?
Recent studies in the fields of positive psychology and the neurosciences show us that the aforementioned perspective is actually backward – happiness fuels success and helps us put things in their proper place, not the other way around. Here’s how you can make an impact as a leader.
A short video to initiate a discussion on change and breaking free of old paradigms. Includes questions for team discussion and application to be extraordinary.
What is the one question every leader should be ready to ask — and every employee should be able to answer?
