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How to Motivate Your Employees to Take Vacation Days
tpsdave / Pixabay You’d think hard-working people wouldn’t need to be told twice to take a vacation—but you’d be surprised. According to some studies, American workers leave more than half their...
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Intrinsic Motivation and Your Employees
Free-Photos / Pixabay When you think of employee motivation, what’s the first thing that comes to mind? For a lot of people, it’s money—and not without reason. Money is one of the primary ways to...
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Humility is Key to Transformational Leadership
klimkin / Pixabay Have you ever met someone who was a total showboater? Always boasting, to anyone within earshot, of his or her own accomplishments? That kind of person can be annoying, to put it...
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3 Powerful Ways to Motivate Your Team (That Have Nothing to Do with Money)
qimono / Pixabay It’s a common conundrum—and as a motivational speaker, it’s something I see all the time: Team leaders want to motivate their people, but don’t necessarily have the resources to...
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To Motivate Millennials, You First Must Understand Them
rawpixel / Pixabay Millennials are widely perceived to be job hoppers, jumping from position to position in an effort to climb the ladder. This is at odds with the way things were in decades past, when...
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Employee Engagement Starts with Your Leadership
Free-Photos / Pixabay Employee engagement doesn’t actually start with your employees. It starts with you, the leader—with the example you set, the culture you build, the commitment you make to...
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4 Areas to Improve Your Employee Engagement
Free-Photos / Pixabay As an executive coach and motivational speaker, I spend a lot of time talking about employee engagement. One thing I’m increasingly aware of is that not everyone’s totally clear...
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Does Employee Engagement Really Matter to Your Bottom Line?
geralt / Pixabay Employee engagement has been a big focus in recent years—and not without reason. Employers have learned, slowly but surely, that when your team members have an emotional investment in...
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What Transformational Leaders Never Say
Free-Photos / Pixabay A big part of leadership is what you do—the example you set, the initiative you take, the priorities you demonstrate. But leaders also need to be mindful of what they say, as...
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Minimizing Meetings: How Great Leaders Can Free Up Their Calendars
rawpixel / Pixabay Meetings can be important. They can also be wastes of time. Most leaders know these things to be true. Looking at your own calendar right now, you’ll probably see a lot of time...
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How Transformational Leaders Communicate With Their Employees
mary1826 / Pixabay He’s all talk! Talk is cheap! We’ve all heard these phrases, and we all know what they mean: There is a limit to how meaningful words can be, and actions ultimately speak much...
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Motivating Employees—Even During Hard Times
komposita / Pixabay Every business goes through difficult seasons. Perhaps it’s due to sales drop-offs. It might even be due to the departure of a beloved team member. Or it may simply be the natural...
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3 Ways to Deal with Bad Leadership
padrinan / Pixabay Statistics prove time and time again that bad leadership drives employees away; indeed, it’s one of the most common reasons for job transfers and career changes. But when you’re...
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Effective Leaders Embrace This Weekly Ritual
PublicDomainPictures / Pixabay It goes without saying that some employees—and some leaders—are more productive than others. The age-old question is, what separates the high achievers from those who are...
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The Perks That Make Your Employees Happier
rawpixel / Pixabay Do you remember the last time you had to choose between two job offers? Or, perhaps, the last time you had to choose between staying at your current job or accepting a new position...
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What Great Leaders Do to Share Bad News
IWMedien / Pixabay Nobody likes to be the bearer of bad news—and when you’re a team leader, delivering grim tidings can be especially difficult. After all, bad news about the state of the company—or...
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The Science Is In. Positive Motivation Really Works.
geralt / Pixabay When it comes to motivating your employees, are you the good cop or the bad one? Or, to put it another way: Do you tend to rely on the carrot, or the stick? For a long time, there has...
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Are Your Employees Demoralized by the Internal Review Process?
Goumbik / Pixabay The annual employee review process is nothing new; it’s been a staple of the workplace for generations, and it remains widely practiced. But does that mean it’s effective? Not...
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Employee Engagement: Do You Understand the Big Picture?
Free-Photos / Pixabay Employee engagement remains a lively topic among today’s leaders, coaches, and HR professionals—a topic that invites plenty of nuanced discussion, but also demands a big-picture...
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How to Change Your Team’s Behavior
maura24 / Pixabay There’s an old saying: Hire behaviors, train skills. Even for those employers who live by this adage, and who hire team members based on their cultural fit, there may be the...
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