You can pay people to perform. You can’t pay them to excel. Ever since the beginning of time, people have been looking for the secrets of leadership. They’ve been looking for those things that will bring out the very best in others. Well there aren’t any secrets. You can read all the books on leadership, and you will find most …
Six Strategies To Keep Employees Motivated In Uncertain Times
The certainty of misery is better than the misery of uncertainty. These are tough times for a lot of you. Just a year or two ago, you couldn’t find or keep enough employees, and you kept asking me to speak on recruitment and retention. Now some of you are facing the opposite problem. You are being forced to downsize your …
4 Tips For Better Meetings
Meetings always take time. The question is, “Are you doing time, killing time, or using time?” If you’re like most people, you’ve gone to an awful lot of meetings. Unfortunately, a lot of those meetings were a waste of time. You spent hours and hours in meetings but those meetings did little, if anything, to help you, your team, organization, …
Employee Motivation Thrives On Recognition
Good managers remember to recognize employees. Great managers do it every day. When comedian George Burns received an honorary degree from the University of Hartford at age 92, he said: “I can’t wait to run home and tell my mother about this. She always wanted me to be a doctor.” It’s a funny story, but Burns makes a serious point. …