Your Explanatory Style Explains Your Success: The Choice is Yours
The assumption is that our workplaces, our schools and our winning sports teams operate on the conventional belief that success results from a combination of talent and desire. When failure occurs, it is because either talent or desire is missing. What we are discovering is that there is another important factor that influences our behavior. You can get more of what you want from life by...
Read MoreManager as Controller VS. Leader as Coach
Traditionally, managers have been seen as controllers. In the new workplace, creative leaders are accepting the challenge of learning to behave as coaches with their associates. By learning new skills and successfully replacing many of the traditional controlling habits with new coaching competencies, leaders can develop associates with greater initiative, confidence, creativity, accountability...
Read MoreBreak the Strategic Planning Cycle
Planning season is upon us and companies large and small are beginning to make preparations for this eagerly anticipated (dreaded) event. Whether expecting to create a whole new strategic direction or just updating the current plan, management teams approach this time of year with emotions ranging from anxiety to enthusiasm to indifference. These emotions are founded in their prior...
Read MoreGenerate Top Quality Applicants with Three Twitter Recruitment Tactics
How do your recruiting efforts fit with a tweeted picture of the world’s largest pineapple? What’s the effectiveness of a job posting next to a tweet with the claim, “best. nachos. ever.”? While it may seem like a disconnect at first, you are missing great candidates if you aren’t following these three simple Twitter recruiting strategies today… I talked a...
Read MoreTaking Inventory–Teach You About Yourself
“….being let go from a company I’d been with for 10 years, took a big bite of my dignity. The assessment package did truly validate my capabilities and competencies. I was wary at first, but the findings admittedly were a big boost to my ego and bolstered my confidence at every stage of the job hunting process.” Engineering Manager He who knows others is learned; he who knows himself...
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