10 Things That Bug People About Meetings
We conducted a survey** last week and asked these plus a few more questions. To date, here are the top 10 responses to the question: “What bugs you about meetings?”
Read more10 tactics for drawing out winners
To me, one of leadership’s greatest rewards is drawing the winner out in someone, when she seemed like such a loser that no one, not even Lucy Loser, believed she had it in her. How to do it? Here are 10 common tactics…along with commentary about likely results for each.
Read more10 ways to handle losers
If you are in pursuit of important growth objectives, you need every team member to be galloping to goal. If a few are just limping along – or even worse laying around on the job – you must be so frustrated! What are you going to do?
Here are 10 possibilities.
Read more10 Management Lessons from Mom
This week’s list is drawn from a variety of sources. The items marked in blue came from Management Lessons from Mom. Would love to have you read and share stories there if you have time. Or feel free to add to this list in the Comments section below.
Read more10 More Quotes & Reasons to Show Appreciation
Since this week is Administrative Professionals Week, we wanted to feature a quote about appreciation. And the best one for the occasion was Quote of the Week: Appreciation can make a day…
In selecting that one though, we passed up many others, ten of which we’ve decided to share here. Perhaps this list will serve as a reminder that appreciation during Administrative Professionals Week is not enough.
Read more10 Tips for Showing Appreciation
This week’s Quick List is in celebration of Administrative Professionals Week but is important year round. Through appreciation, leaders can make a day, even change a life. And in doing one or both of those, one could expect a boost in morale, productivity, engagement, retention and overall performance. Yet over and over and over – I hear from workers from a wide assortment of industries, professions and positions that they don’t feel appreciated. They don’t feel recognized for their contributions and achievements. Are their leaders greedy, unappreciative mongors? Or are they under-appreciated and overwhelmed themselves? Or do they think they are showing appreciation but doing it poorly? Or are these workers so hardened that the appreciation they are given sits on the surface instead of sinking in. Here are 10 tips for showing appreciation in meaningful ways – in ways that have more of a chance of sinking in.
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