Many people leaders struggle handling difficult conversations with their employees. If you haven’t been in this situation, then it’s only a matter of time. Here are three tips you can use next time you discover an employee problem that needs addressing.
4 Important Steps to Add to Your Onboarding Process
Even the most promising new hire needs an adequate amount of support during the onboarding process when they first start working for your company.
How effective is your communication with your direct reports?
Effective communication with our direct reports is a top priority if we want highly engaged team members.
Do you have a hiring bias for industry knowledge?
Is your hiring bias founded on facts or can you teach industry knowledge in a short amount of time?
I challenge my clients to look at this, because when you limit yourself to candidates with “X” amount of experience in your industry, you really shrink the available pool of candidates.
Culture DOES eat strategy for Breakfast
Peter Drucker is attributed to saying “Culture eats strategy for breakfast.” Meaning, that no matter how good your strategy is, how much time you spend talking about your strategy, or in many cases, how many consultants you pay to make awesome PowerPoint presentations on strategy, your strategy is going to be useless without the right […]
Enough about you, let’s talk about ME
It happens all the time. You have an opening on your team and you are in the interviewing process. You went through your standard behavior-based interview questions, poked and probed at several key competencies, and had some good laughs about favorite sports teams or in my case, favorite chocolate desserts. When you exited the interview, […]