Management
15 Influential Events that Shaped Baby Boomers
Boomers have unique experiences that give them an optimistic and restless personality. Here’s 15 of those experiences!
Read MoreSomeone Save Me From My Baby Boomer Manager!
You are a Generation Y (millennial, Gen Y, Nexter) worker born between 1980 and 2000 and you report to a Baby Boomer manager. If you’re finding it difficult working and communicating with your manager, you’re not alone. Gen Y/Boomer generational conflict is increasing in the workplace. It’s a frequent area of concern that clients express…
Read MoreNeed Help With Innovation? Ask an Uninformed Stranger!
Sometimes the best answers for solving a problem come from someone who knows a lot less than you about what you are facing. It’s an innovative problem solving strategy called lack of knowledge and it involves getting the input of a thoughtful but otherwise uninformed individual about the problem you face. They do not have…
Read MoreWhere Do You Start When Your Employee Fails?
When we expect certain behaviors of others, we are likely to act in ways that make the expected behavior more likely to occur. — Robert Rosenthal and Elisha Babad Employees generally rise to our expectations of them. This is known as the self-fulfilling prophecy or Pygmalion Effect. It’s true because we treat people a certain way based…
Read MoreThe Critical Trait Leaders Must Possess to Succeed
What Trait is Critical to Your Success as a Leader? It turns out that all of the discussion occurring about the importance of leaders possessing good ethics to maintain their integrity in the workplace is not idealistic talk. It’s actually important to the careers of anyone whose role involves managing and leading others. This is…
Read MoreThe Rest of the Story: Honoring a Trailblazing Female Executive
The Back Story In my management development work, there are back stories that come from my real world business experiences that serve as the foundation for how I work with others. The same is true with information that I share on this blog. There’s a popular article on this blog titled Five Ways that Employees…
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