Dealing with difficult people in the workplace is challenging. It’s REALLY challenging when the difficult person is your boss. Difficult bosses range from rude, arrogant and pushy to micro managers,…
Month: March 2015
Are Your Employees Buying In?
The High Cost of Disengagement Employee engagement has become one of the hot topics in corporate America. Many executives have come to understand that the measurable impact of an…
Dealing with Difficult People
Nine Strategies for Dealing With Difficult People Some days it feels like life would be whole lot easier if everyone was just like me. I think I’m pretty smart,…
Are You REALLY Listening?
We live in a culture that loves to talk. We love to hear ourselves speak. We want others to hear us express our opinions and feelings. I feel one of…
Play to Your Team’s Strengths
(But, watch out for those weaknesses!) Many organizations have developed a strengths management approach to developing employees. The idea, based on lots of great research is that employees who are…
How to Learn From Failure
Thirty some years ago there was this young, highly motivated and pretty talented manager who was gaining a pretty solid reputation for his ability to get results from his team. …