Suspect Your New Hire Won’t Make It? 4 Mistakes to Avoid
Think termination is the only way out? Think again. Leverage the fact that your struggling employee may well be as frustrated as you. Four coaching tips which increase the odds of turning around your new employee’s performance – and reduce the chance of unpleasant departures or post-termination legal risks.
Nice Boss, Tough Boss: A Fairy Tale
Fairy tale mindsets create a powerful lens through which we view leadership. Do you let them affect how you act as a leader? If so, you may live LESS happily-ever-after.
What Motivates Jane? (a.k.a. The Telepathy Game)
Each day well-meaning managers across Corporate America play The Telepathy Game. In the absence of hard data on what motivates Jane — and with no ability to crawl inside her heart and mind to find out first-hand — a manager often defaults to ineffective and expensive guesswork. How can you find out what REALLY matters to Jane?
10 Days and 34 Words to Better Relationships
How do you increase the odds that others do things well (and quickly) for you? 10 days and 34 words that can help.
Nurturing the Art of Self-Coaching
When it comes to strengthening your team’s performance, there’s only one thing as powerful as taking the time to coach your direct reports: teaching them to self-coach.