Videos

Here’s a collection of videos from my various blog posts on a variety of management and leadership topics.

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Everyone Has it in Them to Shine [Video]

by Robert Tanner on May 11, 2012

Some managers question the value of coaching an under performing employee.  They argue that it is much simpler for them to just get rid of their non performing employee and replace them with someone who can do the job. As I coach managers, particularly newer managers, I stress the value of adjusting this perspective of [...]

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Four Real-World Strategies to Inspire an Employee Engagement Turnaround

by Robert Tanner on April 9, 2012

Research shows that employees that do not have a positive emotional connection to their organizations are less productive and less loyal than fully engaged employees.  This is a strong incentive for leaders to adopt strategies that promote employee engagement. Fostering an environment that promotes employee engagement is particularly difficult, however, when a leader inherits a [...]

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How Leaders Inspire Others to Greatness

by Robert Tanner on March 30, 2012

We follow those who lead not because we have to, but because we want to. We follow those who lead not for them but for ourselves. – Simon Sinek Why is it that some leaders can inspire people to follow their vision while other leaders who are just as smart cannot get the same results? What [...]

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What Does it Take to Think Like an Innovator?

by Robert Tanner on February 16, 2012

Innovation is no longer a nice-to-have skill!  It is a necessity for today’s business leaders and managers.  Innovation must become a part of everyday operations for a business of any size to survive.  Those businesses that are not innovating and doing something new will find that they lag their market and this will lead to [...]

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Improving Decision Making with the Ladder of Inference

by Robert Tanner on December 29, 2011

My Twitter colleague, Renee Charney of Charney Coaching & Consulting wrote a great post on her blog on the Ladder of Inference. Like Renee, I like this tool and it is a great tool for moving from faulty decision making to informed decision making. It’s helpful for preventing us from making that all too human [...]

How to Execute Innovation Successfully

by Robert Tanner December 8, 2011
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Innovation is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration. –Thomas Edison I’ll probably get in trouble with my wife on this post about executing innovation (since she reads and critiques all of my posts), but I am a brave man (and we have been married long enough) so I’ll venture on.  My wife is very creative and [...]

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Put Employees First! Now, That’s an Idea Whose Time Is Overdue!

by Robert Tanner November 17, 2011
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Command and control leadership is increasingly recognized as an inappropriate primary leadership style for many modern organizations. The declining utility of this style has occurred over the last several decades and it has been accelerated in this new millennium. While command and control leadership style has its place (particularly in an immediate crisis mode or [...]

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So You Think You Can Ignore Office Politics? Think Again!

by Robert Tanner November 2, 2011
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At times in my consulting and training work, different managers will tell me that they ignore office politics and just do their jobs.  They explain that good work and a high performing team are all they need in their management role to be influential in their organizations and to support their team.  I explain that [...]

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Stephen Covey on the Power of Listening for Understanding

by Robert Tanner October 21, 2011
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Stephen Covey explains the power of listening for understanding in his story about the Indian Talking Stick.  As anyone knows who has ever taken one of my college classes or attended one of my business seminars, I believe that listening is one of the most under utilized and underrated skills of leaders and managers.  In [...]

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