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Helping a New Manager Succeed

How Effective a Manager Are You?

New managers need support to succeed in role. Consider that many individuals hired into new management roles may not have previous experience managing people; they have likely come from individual contributor roles. To make it even more challenging, they are now likely managing those individuals who were once their peers.

Consider this example:

Jeremy is […]

4 Ways to Get to Know Your Employees

Employees Engagement

Often as leaders we get tied up in the everyday work we need to accomplish as well as in many meetings and forget about the importance of getting to know our employees and spending some time with them. Here are four ways for leaders that will enable them to get to know their employees.

One-on-one […]

Influencing Others: A Key Leadership Skill

Influencing

Our ability to influence others is an essential skill for leaders at any level. Influencing is not about strong arming people to do things your way, but rather influencing is “the action or process of producing effects on the actions, behavior, opinions and ideas of others.” (definition from dictionary.com.)

Today’s flatter organizations that rely on […]

Five Things Leaders Should Do Every Day

Five Things Leaders Should Do Every Day

Here are five key things every leader should do every day to increase their effectiveness in engaging and motivating their employees.

Communicate: Leaders must know how to effectively communicate through all levels of the organization – the right communication, with the right amount of information, at the right time. Be honest when things aren’t […]

Three Tips to Prepare for Executive Off-Sites

Executive off-site meetings are a great way to get the executive team together to focus on what will be accomplished over the upcoming year. In order to ensure that the executive off-site is effective and much is accomplished, it is essential to prepare ahead of time.

Here are three tips to prepare for your next […]