employee engagement
5 words that kill innovation and 1 phrase that can bring it back.
We’ve all been there. You’re in a meeting to come up with a solution to a stubborn problem or generate ideas for a new service when someone suggests an idea that just might work! A momentary sense of hope begins...
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Want to Motivate your employees? First, Break this rule!
We’re 2 hours into running our guts out at our nightly basketball practice; fast breaks, full court press, and running endless sets of lines. Someone missed a layup and the coach yelled ‘STOP!’ As he berated the unlucky player we all ashamedly...
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5 Tips to make your Performance Planning more powerful and motivating this year.
It’s that time of year when leaders are getting ready for the new year, and the Performance Planning Cycle, and setting new goals. For some, it’s about as inspiring as mowing a lawn that’s been ravaged by crows looking for chafer beetles (you have...
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Coaching for Performance
How to inspire higher performance and increase engagement at the same time. Will you get the performance you need this year? Ever feel the need to increase performance, or maintain coverage, or been asked to ‘do more with less’? Whether your...
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5 Ways to Recognize employees, and it doesn’t cost a cent!
The year is wrapping up and you’re looking for a way to Recognize employees for their efforts and accomplishments all year long. Problem is – your budget’s been cut and there’s a moratorium on spending. Well here are 5 quick, easy ways...
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If Growth is so good, why are some people so glum?
Why growth can feel like downsizing and 5 ways to shore up employee engagement. Online orders are stacking up, phones are ringing, and profits are rolling in. Your company is growing! This is EXACTLY what you’d hoped for! So, why...
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Want to improve employee engagement? Don’t do another survey!
The conversation often goes something like this. “Only 51% of our employees are engaged” (with a tone that infers there is something wrong with the other 49%). When I ask ‘what have you done since your last survey to help...
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‘It’s the little things, that over time, create big results’.
Over a tall glass of cool, clear water, I looked at my schedule. Conference call 8-9, coaching call 9 – 10, meeting downtown 11:00 to noon, lunch with a friend, then a barrage of meetings the rest of the day. No way I’d get a work-out in today – or...
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Want to Love what you do? – Then do what you love.
Imagine what it would be like, to Love what you do, and get paid to do it. Professional athletes, musicians, and actors are the icons of people who love what they do and get paid to do it. Though the...
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