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Category Archives: Creativity
MORE GREAT Questions Every Boss Needs Answered by Their Subordinates
I have often encouraged leaders with the following wisdom: If you listen to your people, they will hand you leadership success on a silver platter! If you are willing to listen to their input, your team members will surprise you … Continue reading
Posted in Coaching, Collaboration, Communication, Creativity, Customer Service, Decision-making, Delegation, Employee Development, Employee Engagement, Employee Motivation, Employee Retention, Employee Satisfaction, Feedback, Honesty, Innovation, Leadership, Learning, Management, Morale, Organizations, Performance Management, Problem-Solving, Productivity, Professional Development, Recognition, Supervision, Team Culture, Team Dynamics, Team Leadership, Teams, Work
Tagged Collaboration, Communication, Employee Engagement, Leadership, Management, Performance Management, Supervision, Team Culture, Team Dynamics, Team Leadership, team performance, Teams
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5 Questions Every Boss Needs Answered by Their Subordinates – #4
The first question is the most fundamental: What do you need from me in order for you to do your best work? The second question is built on the first: Do you have the opportunity every day to do what … Continue reading
Posted in Collaboration, Communication, Competence, Creativity, Decision-making, Employee Engagement, Employee Motivation, Employee Retention, Employee Satisfaction, Feedback, Innovation, Leadership, Learning, Management, Morale, Performance Management, Problem-Solving, Productivity, Supervision, Team Culture, Team Dynamics, Team Leadership, Teams, Uncategorized, Work
Tagged Creativity, Employee Engagement, Innovation, Leadership, Management, Morale, Performance Management, Problem-Solving, Productivity, Supervision, Team Culture, Team Dynamics, Team Leadership, team performance, Team Productivity, Teams
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5 Questions Everyone in the Workplace Wants Answered – #4
The first question is the most important and fundamental: WHAT’S MY JOB? The second question follows the first: HOW WELL AM I DOING IT? The third question is more profound: WHAT AM I PART OF? The fourth question is about … Continue reading
Posted in Agility, Collaboration, Communication, Competence, Creativity, Customer Service, Decision Making, Decision-making, Employee Engagement, Employee Motivation, Leadership, Management, Morale, Organizations, Performance Management, Planning, Problem-Solving, Productivity, Success, Supervision, Team Culture, Team Dynamics, Team Leadership, Teams, Uncategorized, Values, Vision, Work
Tagged Decision-making, Employee Engagement, Evaluation, Leadership, Management, Performance Management, Planning, Problem-Solving, Supervision, Team Culture, Team Dynamics, Team Leadership, team performance, Teams
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If you stop drawing from the Well of Creativity, it will dry up!
This post is a bittersweet tribute of sorts – advice from Dr. Orval Butcher, a former boss of mine who became a friend, advisor, mentor, and spiritual touchstone. A few years ago, I had the privilege of saying goodbye to … Continue reading
Hire S.H.A.R.P.E.R. People – Part 1
S = Strategic I’ve decided to follow-up my series on DELEGATION with one on HIRING. My reasoning is pretty straightforward here: There’s an obvious—and logical—connection between these two essential executive functions: Before you can assign work to a person, you … Continue reading
Great Advice from Top CEO’s – #21
Practice Fu Pan. This advice is a perfect follow-up to my last blogpost. It comes from LENOVO founder Liu Chuanzhi, who referred to it in an interview published in FastCompany Magazine. LENOVO is the Chinese company that purchased IBM’s PC … Continue reading
Posted in Agility, Coaching, Collaboration, Communication, Creativity, Decision-making, Events, Failure, Innovation, Leadership, Learning, Management, Mistakes, Problem-Solving, Success, Team Culture, Team Dynamics, Team Leadership, Teams, Work
Tagged Agility, Decision-making, Failure, learning, Management, Problem-Solving, success, Team Culture, Team Development, Team Dynamics, Team Leadership, team performance, Teams
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Great Advice from Top CEO’s – #20
Learn from mistakes and listen to feedback. This issue’s great advice comes from Sir Martin Sorrell, CEO of WPP. This is what he recommends, if you want to make better decisions! Sorrell speaks to the realities that executives face in … Continue reading
Posted in Collaboration, Communication, Creativity, Decision-making, Emotional Intelligence, Feedback, Innovation, Leadership, Learning, Management, Mistakes, Personal Growth, Personal Success, Problem-Solving, Professional Development, Risk, Self-Awareness, Uncategorized, Work
Tagged Collaboration, Communication, Decision-making, Experimentation, Failure, Feedback, Insight, Intuition, Judgment, Mistakes, Problem-Solving, Risk-Taking, success
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Great Advice from Top CEO’s – #19
Make a personal connection with peers you trust. This issue’s great advice comes from Derric Johnson, a mentor of mine who has a great way of expressing down-to-earth wisdom with real practical benefit. Early in my career he advised me … Continue reading
Posted in Career, Coaching, Collaboration, Creativity, Decision-making, Emotional Intelligence, Leadership, Learning, Management, Personal Growth, Personal Success, Problem-Solving, Professional Development, Self-Awareness, Uncategorized, Work
Tagged Coaching, Decision-making, Emotional Intelligence, personal growth, Problem-Solving, professional development, professional growth, Self Improvement, Self Management, Self-assessment, Self-awareness
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Solve Problems a Different Way
Use Appreciative Inquiry My last post inspired me to share an important insight into problem-solving that might be of real practical help to my readers. Albert Einstein is [variously] quoted as saying, “We can not solve our problems with the … Continue reading
Posted in Collaboration, Creativity, Decision-making, Innovation, Leadership, Learning, Management, Problem-Solving, Team Culture, Team Dynamics, Team Leadership, Teams, Uncategorized
Tagged Coaching, Collaboration, Creativity, Decision-making, Innovation, Problem-Solving, Team Culture, Team Dynamics, Team Leadership
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Great Advice from Top CEO’s – #13
Make Your People HAPPY In a recent survey in the workplace, researchers invited more than 600 managers from dozens of companies to rank the impact on employee motivation and emotions of five workplace factors commonly considered significant: Recognition for good … Continue reading
Posted in Celebration, Collaboration, Communication, Creativity, Employee Development, Employee Engagement, Employee Motivation, Events, Influence, Leadership, Management, Performance Management, Productivity, Recognition, Team Culture, Team Dynamics, Team Leadership, Teams, Uncategorized, Work
Tagged Job Performance, Performance Management, Team Celebration, Team Culture, Team Dynamics, Team Goals, Team Leadership, Team Motivation, team performance, Team Recognition, Team Reward, Team Success, Teams
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