How Much is Low Trust Costing Your Organization?
Trust isn't quantifiable but the effect of it or its lack can have a major impact on the success of your business or organization.
The Warning Signals of Employee Disengagement
Employee disengagement does not happen overnight. Just as building the human resource pool in a company takes months and years, disengagement happens progressively over weeks and months. Managers are
Key Audience-Building Secrets From the Phenomenal Success of Broad City
What's the key to Broad City's runaway success? A lot of behind the scenes work -- and critical lessons that can help anyone seeking to grow a grass-roots initiative.
Ten Steps to Dramatically Improve Your Network with Social Software
Online networks are the new power lunch tables and the new golf courses for business life in the U.S. In the past ten years, online dating has become mainstream; 40 million Americans use online dating sites. Now, businesspeople are starting to use the same family of technology to find business clien
Sweat the Right Small Stuff: 10 Steps to Avoid the Achilles Heels of Leadership
How do you know if your Achilles heel is showing? How do you know that you are strategic rather than tactical, that you are not guilty of public flogging, that you are taking feedback as verbal gold,
Building Your Blog Means Knowing Your Audience
Can you really make money with a blog? The answer is yes -- if you take the time to build an audience through high quality content, email marketing, analysis and more.
Building Value for Your Business Partnership
Your colleague's complaints may sound judgmental and emotional in nature, but they contain a greater truth – the fact that they are unsatisfied or not getting their expectations met. This is
Leadership Skill Assessment - Do You Have the Potential to Be an Effective Leader?
What is a leadership skill? There are numerous skills you desire if you want to be an effective manager or leader. One important leadership skill is motivation, for example. You must be able to motiva
The 13 Qualities That Make Up Character
Most people agree that character is important, and it is crucial for a contagious leader. Character must be cultivated.
Why People Dislike Their Boss
If you are a manager or supervisor and feel that you are not liked on the job or that people talk behind your back, you are probably right. It's not that you are a bad person- rather, it&
Are You Walking the Talk?
You've heard the phrase 'walking the talk'. Leadership and learning expert Kevin Eikenberry offers ideas about why you are always walking and how someone is always watching.
Employee Engagement- a leading indicator of employee retention
With the supply of good knowledge workers decreasing, measuring your employee's level of engagement, developing a plan to increasing their engagement and implementing the plan can be your competitive
Kickstarting a Brand New Team
Do you remember the last time you attended the initial meeting of a new task force or project team at work? No one could agree on the goals. A couple of people complained about all their other work de
The Fear of Change
The only way to control fear is to face it. Mark Twain once said, 'Courage is resistance to fear, not absence of fear.'
Evaluating Leadership Qualities -- 10 Things Effective Leaders Do to Motivate Employees
If you have a manager who gets the job done at the expense of his or her employees' emotional and professional well being, your chance of attaining long-term contributions from employees is n
Step Up and Be the Progressive Leader
Today I have a special message specifically for the MLM Leaders and MLM Corporate owners or Network Marketers and Affiliate marketers. You are the people I am directing my message to today! There&
7 Steps to Being a Successful Positive Control Freak Leader
Are you looking for becoming a successful positive control freak leader? Here are 7 successful steps defined by Cheryl Cran that have been excerpted from the chapter nine of her book “The Control Frea
2009 Venture Technology Investment Outlook
January 2009. The world economic conditions have changed the investment and venture environment significantly. What are the trends you need to be aware of when seeking venture funding?
Characteristics of a Successful Leader
As a successful leader, how would one answer the question from a follower - Why should I be lead by you? This articles suggest some key characteristics of a successful leader.
All Fitness Instructors Must Protect Themselves Against Lawsuits
In today's litigious society, every professional has a need for his or her own professional liability insurance. If you provide services to the public in return for money, it is essential tha