Tag Archives: management
Five Steps for Turning the Tables on the Boss and Turning the Light on You!
National Boss’s Day is October 16th, an international holiday established in 1958 by a secretary for State Farm Insurance Company. Traditionally a day for employees to thank their boss for being kind and fair throughout the year, it was originally conceived as an effort to improve the relationship between employees and their supervisors. There probably [...]
Part Two: Quit and Stay? 7 Factors to Increase Employee Satisfaction by Joe Folkman
The first 3 Factors were consistent values, long-term focus, and local leadership. The last 4 factors are: 4. Continuous Communications. People often tend to communicate less during bad times when they need communication even more. This company increased its efforts to communicate and share important information. If there was no good news to share, they would share the [...]
Quit and Stay? 7 Factors to Increase Employee Satisfaction by Joe Folkman
Two years ago when employees became dissatisfied with their organization they would quit and get another job. Today, with emplacement opportunities very low and unemployment extremely high, very few people opt to quit and leave. Their option is to quit and stay. In the last year, overall job satisfaction in the U.S. has declined significantly. [...]
Invisible Architecture™ is the Key to Leadership
Think of all the money spent on designing office buildings, moving cubicles around, consolidating locations. Capital expenditures take a big budget chunk. But what if you literally had the cart before the horse. What if you’re moving people, materials, and merchandise but have forgotten to move what really matters: the human spirit—invisible to the human [...]
Top 40 Bonehead Boss Stories
Geoffrey James, Sales Machine, writes about bonehead bosses on BNet just in time for National Bosses Day on October 16th. Some of the stories are ones you might already know but a few of them were new to me. My favorite is number six when a VP order employees to take a lie detector test [...]
Is Leadership A “Social Process”?
Four well-known, academic thinkers and writers on leadership recently released a new book, “Exploring Leadership” (Oxford University Press). Although the book leaves many question unanswered and tends to get stuck in academic debates, I find myself intrigued by the authors insistence that leadership is a “social process”. By their definition, leadership exists in the interactions [...]
Bellman Teaches a Leader’s Lesson
Dateline: Intercontinental Hotel, Downtown Miami. Hot August. Thunderstorms were rolling across Biscayne Bay when my taxi pulled partially under the portico. The driver popped open the trunk and a grinning bellman ran to the rear of the car. He motioned to the driver to move forward. “I didn’t want you to get wet, Ms. Eileen,” [...]
People-First Learning Is a Key to Effective Mentoring
As wonderful as Wikipedia and Google can be in finding out information, when it comes to effective mentoring, going directly to real people trumps an outdated content-first approach. Why? Employees have figured out that information without context and organizational history is ineffective and often incorrect. People look to and connect to other people when there [...]
Lessons from the Simmons Leadership Conference
I’m thrilled to say that I was interviewed by Liz O’Donnell, Author of HelloLadies.com about the Simmons Leadership Conference. You can read the entire interview at The Glass Hammer.