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Articles

 Tick, Tick, Tick
by Karen Burns
Doncha hate meetings? Most do. But even though they’re often an enormous waste of time, meetings still happen in every business, every day. Consider these ways to make meetings shorter. Some are so obvious it hurts. Some are sort of mean. Only hold a meeting if it’s really necess...
 
 Best Practices for Successful and Legally Defensible Performance Appraisals
by Cherisse Figueroa, SPHR
Ensure your performance appraisals are successful and legally defensible in five easy steps by managing employee performance. If you’re like most managers, you do not look forward to the performance appraisal process for your staff. You recognize that preparing and delivering these appr...
 
 Principles of Being an Effective Manager
by Debra Wheatman
Being a successful manager that is respected and well liked has more to do with common sense than people think. An effective manager also contributes to the organization’s success. Here is some information to help you develop or hone your style to facilitate a strong internal presence and ...
 
 Help Your Team Deal With Change
by Phil Gerbyshak
Recently I had a conversation with a Twitter friend about a change his team was about to go through. Here’s how the advice and how you can help your team deal with change. Change isn’t easy, but if you do it right, you can minimize the long-term pain your team will go through as a resu...
 
 Speak like a CEO: The Wisdom of a Chinese Proverb
by Suzanne Bates
This week I've been thinking about that saying, 'lead by example'. The origin of this well-worn standard is a Chinese proverb, yi shen zuo ze, which means 'to set a good example,' or 'set yourself as the standard.' For thousands of years people have known that a leader's actions must mat...
 
 Tips On How To Share Leadership Lessons With Stories
by Suzanne Bates
This week I was in Dallas at the Network of Executive women, to deliver a workshop on Storytelling for Business Leaders. We talked about how to become a great storyteller and share leadership lessons through those stories. You wouldn’t believe the number of executives who came up to
 
 Training Leaders to Handle Uncertainty: Moving from Knowing to Not Knowing
by Gary Cohen
When the Dow Jones industrial average goes from over 14,000 to under 7,000 in roughly a year's time, not much is certain. Will your chief supplier survive the credit crunch? Will customers return to their old spending habits or continue to conserve? Is another industry primed for a crash? ...
 
 Seven Secrets of Successful Managers
by Phil Gerbyshak
Successful managers aren’t perfect. Successful managers do get more done, get better results, and have lower retention rates than unsuccessful managers. I don’t know all the secrets of being a successful manager, but I do know seven secrets that can help you be a more successful manager. ...
 
 The Power of Stories
by David Lee
How do you keep your workers inspired, determined, and confident in the face of change, challenge and uncertainty? One of the things you do—especially if you’re a business owner or senior level leader—is to tell stories. Not just any story. You need to tell the kind of stories tha...
 
 Managing a Critical Aggressor: Case Example
by Mark Gorkin
Let’s try a mind exercise. You’ve just given a presentation at an important meeting. As the meeting concludes you turn to a colleague (a casual acquaintance) and ask, “How did the presentation go?” And in a decidedly judgmental and unfriendly tone this colleague declares, “Frankly, you ...
 
 Take Your Team to the Next LEVEL
by Phil Gerbyshak
My entire IT department is getting restructured, to ensure we have the right folks in the right seats on the bus, and so everyone clearly knows what direction we are headed. I’m quite excited about this, as it will give me help in re-writing job descriptions, understanding where I fit into...
 
 Workers Feeling Job Stress, Too
by Ramon Greenwood
Yes, managers are under a great deal of pressure turbulent times and all of us are well advised to take this condition into account in managing relationships with them. It has never been more important for everyone to focus on the job at hand, do it in the best way possible and tread light...
 
 In Your Career Sometimes Bad News is a Good Thing
by Barbara Safani
Recently I had to deliver some bad news. It was one of those situations where I could always come up with a reason to delay the conversation. It never seemed to be the right time; there was always something to consider that would make the information more difficult to bear. So I put it off...
 
 Two-Sided Answers
by Nan S. Russell
The room was lovely, the bed inviting, the architecture interesting, and the philosophy appealing. That was my impression as we checked into a newly minted green-hotel in a resort town where we were eager to spend time relaxing. But when we checked out, lovely wasn't on my mind. Protect...
 
 Toxic Bosses: What to Do and How Not to Be One
by David Lee
In this article, we discuss: 1) How to minimize the impact of a toxic boss. 2) How to help a toxic—or counterproductive—boss. 3) How to make sure you’re not one of them. In today’s email, I received “An Antidote for Toxic Bosses” from BNet Insight. The author describes 4 things ...
 
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