If you’re in performance appraisal discussion mode this time of year, check to see if your forms are helping you or hindering you from eliciting the conversations you need to have with your staff. If you don’t think they create the kind of discussion you need, create your own agenda and complete the form later. [...]
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What Does Mousing Have to Do With Implementing Change?
Have you ever tried using your “other” hand for mousing? As a right-handed person, I found it uncomfortable back in the ’90s, when computers became pervasive, to be sitting in an office designed for hand writing not computing. When those under-the-desk, sliding keyboard holders appeared, I still found my body curving uncomfortably to use the [...]
Winning Leaders Choose Words With Care
How many times have you said something and soon, if not immediately, afterwards, wished you had chosen different words? This can be viewed as a positive: you were aware of the reaction you created by what you said, and perhaps realized that wasn’t what you intended. On the less positive side, you may have sparked [...]
The Water We Swim in: The Right to be Yourself
As a student of history and leadership, watching recent news and commentary about the profound events unfolding in the Arab world sends thoughts of history studies from long ago flooding through me like the Nile (or the Mississippi, the river where I grew up, which is flooding). Principles of motivation, leadership, organization, and communication swirl [...]
Add Talent Scout to Your Leadership Competencies
To survive in this topsy-turvy economy, successful leaders will include the role of Scout on their list of competencies. Most often the role of scout rings of “American Idol” or some other entertainment show where talented people are discovered and recruited. What I mean by talent scout is the role of the person who finds [...]
