How Night Owls Can Thrive in 9-to-5 Life
Personally? I like to get up, get moving, and get things accomplished fairly early in the morning. If you ever have a mid-morning meeting with me, there’s a decent chance I’ve already gone...
View ArticleDo You Have Good Feedback Skills?
If you want the people who work for you to do a better job, you’ve got to provide them with feedback. This is more than just rattling off a hasty opinion, giving them a thumbs up or a thumbs down....
View Article5 Simple Ways to Kickstart Your Creativity
When you’re running a business, each day brings new challenges and new opportunities. Some of these can be addressed fairly straightforwardly. Others may require some out-of-the-box thinking. That’s a...
View Article8 Ways to Deal with Workplace Burnout
It’s not uncommon to have an hour, a day, a week, or even a full month when you’re not feeling motivated. There are tasks on your plate, obligations you need to fulfill, but your heart isn’t in it, and...
View ArticleHow to Get Your Team Pumped for a Strong Fourth Quarter
At the beginning of the year—with the holiday season behind us and New Year’s resolutions to uphold—we all tend to be pretty gung-ho, pretty enthusiastic about getting a strong start. Starting strong...
View ArticleHow We Should Be Thinking About Office Conflict
If you’re like most of the leaders that I’ve met, one of your least favorite parts of the job is diffusing workplace conflicts. That conflicts would arise is, of course, inevitable: when you get people...
View ArticleHow to Clear Your Head—and Boost Your Productivity
When you run a business or lead a team, you’ve always got a thousand things on your mind. There is always much to juggle—issues that need to be addressed, obstacles to overcome, goals to achieve,...
View Article5 Things to Remember About Workplace Wellness
A team that is healthy—physically as well as mentally—is going to perform better, bring more creativity to the table, take fewer sick days, and gel together as a unit much better than they would...
View ArticleHow Your Culture Can Survive an Acquisition
Your company’s culture is the set of attitudes and values that binds your team and pushes you forward; there is nothing more important in defining who you are as a company, and what your company...
View ArticleHow to Avoid Toxic Culture
High stress. Constant turnover. Low morale. Little team cohesion. These are just some of the signs of a toxic work culture, and it’s important, before we go any further, to ask yourself: Is that the...
View ArticleTo Protect Your Time, Learn How to Say No
A lot of people hate to say no. We feel pressure to avoid that word as best we can; we fear that it will disappoint people, or hurt their feelings. We worry that we’ll let someone down by declining...
View ArticleHow to Include Remote Employees in Your Company Culture
It used to be that people who worked together were more or less always under the same roof, sharing office space for a good chunk of their days. Today, that’s less true. Thanks to advances in online...
View ArticleHow to Translate Creative Skills into Entrepreneurial Ones
All too often, we put creativity and business at odds with one another—as though creative people can’t have an interest in entrepreneurial things, or as though success in business does not require a...
View ArticleHow to Build a Company Culture That Helps Customers
Why is culture so important? Ask any given leader and the answer you’re going to receive—as likely as not—is that culture helps retain employees and create strong teams. That’s certainly true, and...
View ArticleHow to Make Your Holiday Season Incredibly Productive
The month of December is known for its parties and its social gatherings, its charitable events and its many vacation days. One thing it isn’t known for is productivity. At many companies, it’s all you...
View ArticleHow to Give Your Personal Brand a Tune-Up
To be successful, you have to do more than just transform your business; you have to transform your personal brand. That’s something I tell the executives who engage me for my Focused Fun coaching...
View ArticleWhat to Look for in a Conference Speaker
Never underestimate the difficulty that meeting planners face. Their job is to arrange seminars and conferences that are engaging, but also informative; entertaining, but also full of real-world value....
View ArticleHow to Reduce Stress for Your Team Members
As a business leader, why do you care whether or not your team members feel stressed? Well, because employees who aren’t stressed are healthy, focused, and energetic; and, because happy employees...
View ArticleResolve to Have Better Meetings in 2017
I meet a lot of leaders who take the idea of New Year’s resolutions seriously—yet they sometimes struggle to know exactly which resolution they should be making. Let me offer you a practical...
View ArticleResolutions Every Leader Should Make
What’s the secret to a good New Year’s resolution? I think the trick is picking something that stretches you a little, but not too much. You don’t want to aim too low, because then what’s the point?...
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