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Tip #1039: Employee Engagement Programs Aren’t Enough

Gallup’s annual engagement survey shows that an average of 68% of employees are not engaged, even though most of their companies have employee engagement programs.

August 13, 2024

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Tip #1031: Are Your Managers Uncomfortable in Their Role?

I was teaching a class on supervisory skills to newly promoted managers. After hearing about the responsibilities inherent in the position, one manager came to

June 18, 2024

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Tip #1028: Three Steps to Stop Upward Delegation

“Resist reverse or upward delegation. Don’t let others hand the job back to you.”Brian Tracy Upward delegation can take up a lot of a manager’s

May 28, 2024

Tip #994: Stop Talking Yourself Out of Delegating!

Supervisors and managers frequently talk themselves out of delegating, when, in truth, complete or partial delegation is possible. Below are typical reasons why delegation doesn’t

September 19, 2023

Tip #993: Why Employees Don’t Perform- and What to Do About It- Part Two

In Part One, we considered whether there were system barriers (Step #1) or circumstances beyond the employee’s control (Step #2) that interfered with the employee’s

September 12, 2023

Tip #876: Four Steps to Learning Maturity

“To be successful in a knowledge economy, firms need to create learning organizations.” Don Tapscott There is a lot of discussion about the need for

June 7, 2021

Tip #874: How to Engage Meeting and Workshop Participants

“A dialogue leads to connection, which leads to trust, which leads to engagement.” Seth Godin Whether you are conducting a meeting or facilitating a workshop

May 24, 2021

Tip #873: Soft Skills are Hard!

“Let’s call them real skills, not soft.” Seth Godin I’m tired of the false distinctions that are often made between soft skills and hard skills.

May 17, 2021

Tip #872: Resolving an Open Conflict in Your Meeting

“The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.” G.K. Chesterton There may be times that an open conflict will

May 10, 2021

Tip #869: How to Build Motivation to Learn

“Student engagement is the product of motivation and active learning.” Elizabeth F. Barkley In his book Drive, Daniel Pink identifies three key components necessary for

April 19, 2021

Tip #865: The Magic Key to Learning Transfer

“You, your leaders, and your investors are interested in learning only insofar as it improves performance and gets business results.” Michael Dulworth and Frank Bordonaro

March 22, 2021

Tip #856: Change the Job, Not the Manager

“Deciding what not to do is as important as deciding what to do.” Jessica Jackley According to Matt Casey, the author of The Management Delusion-

January 18, 2021

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