The 4-C Method to Solve Employee Performance Problems
Read time 2.5 minutes. Implementation time: about 10-12 minutes. Probable time ROI when done consistently & well = about 4 hrs per month. 1. Challenge the situation: Could be as simple as asking a...
View ArticleLeadership Skill 3.0
Change Myself, Change My World, One Conversation At a Time . . . with close encounters of the first-person kind. Read time 2 minutes. Goal: Key leader job is to bring out the genius in people. Return...
View ArticleJohn Wooden, Don Yeager – A Game Plan For Life
. . . The Power of Mentoring “Any success I’ve had as a parent is the result of listening to Coach Wooden expand on the lessons I learned from my own parents.” Kareem Abdul-Jabbar This is one of those...
View ArticleViral Leadership
Read time 47 seconds. One day a manager was walking though the office, when he noticed one of his supervisors was having a conversation with a direct report. Approaching the supervisor, he asked, “What...
View ArticleWhy Genius Managing Is So Difficult
. . . First because it involves and engages people, to get things done. Second, genius management is a process of relationship, not an event. Relationships are a voluntary, participatory sport. Just...
View ArticleDisruptive Demograhics. Great Disruption.
In an age of talent managing people within the context of “Disruptive Demographics,” (multi-generational, multi-cultural) this Great Economic Disruption and the “bad news bears media” salivating over...
View Article5 Reasons Account-Ability Counts
Why is Account-Ability so important? 1. Because we pay people. When employees or contractors accept money to do a job, they are making a contract to do their best with their unique talents and...
View ArticleHow to Show People How to Do New Tasks
Use a Showing Leader Style ... which means Show, Instruct, inform, and Check to move newbies quickly into being self-reliant achievers. Give brief instructions (In chunks of about 2-3 minutes, max,)...
View ArticleAmerican Idol, Dancing With The Stars, & Genius
The leadership and development shown in American Idol and Dancing With The Stars is about taking ordinary people and inspiring, leading and encouraging them to do extra-ordinary things. Business could...
View ArticleAmerican Idol: And The Winners Are…
Two years in a row now, the American viewers of American Idol have picked the second best entertainer as their American Idol. Now, we must remember that the difference between the winner and loser in a...
View Article