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Q&A Continues – 2010 – Best Year Ever??

January 7, 2010

My good buddy and fellow freak flag flier, Joe Gerstandt, and I occasionally exchange Q and A posts. We embarked on this as an experiment and I will claim this as one of the most successful for 2009.
Joe has a list on his site titled: Big Brains, Fat Hearts and Warm Souls – and [...]

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Be a Better Manager by Appealing to Your Employees’ Most Noble Intentions

December 29, 2009

Last week I had a discussion with my sister, an educator. She and her husband teach subjects related to optics and light, which require some pricey equipment. They’ve had items “disappear” in the past. To head this off, they have come up with this groundrule they announce to classes up front: [...]

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Taking Interest in ‘EEs Lives: Don’t Act More Human, Be More Human

October 20, 2009

A client called me recently asking my opinion about an article he read in BusinessWeek titled, “The No-Cost Way to Motivate.“ His take on it was, “the author says to take more interest in your employees’ personal lives. I say, is that really a good idea?”
Maybe. If I already had a relationship with my employees [...]

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Get the Report: Employee Development Needs in This Economic Recession

October 11, 2009

“Things are always changing and we need people who are energized by change and look for opportunities for themselves to grow with opportunities and to help our company and our customers grow as well.” ~ Survey Respondent
It might seem like an uphill battle, to get the kind of energy and initiative described above. After all, [...]

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What The World Needs Now: Leadership 2.0

October 6, 2009

Joe Gerstandt and I have been tossing some questions back and forth, and this time we decided to both answer the same question, which is this: We both focus largely on the intangible assets in an organization or community…the things that cannot be easily counted or weighed…things like difference, trust, relationships, culture, etc. [...]

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Prevent ‘EE Exodus: Make It Make Sense to Them

September 30, 2009

I saw a intriguing phrase recently in regard to employees’ state of mind: “turnover intention” A Deloitte report describes this as, “an employee’s “conscious and deliberate willfulness to leave the organization” within a certain time interval, e.g., the next six months” (Tett and Meyer, 1993).
You know that I think it is important to never take for [...]

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Tell Me About It: What Are Employee Development Needs in this Economic Recession?

September 22, 2009

[The survey is closed, but you can get the report sent to you by requesting it here.]
For years I’ve been studying both organizations’ needs from the Human beings they employ, such as managing change and initiative. I’m equally, if not more, interested in the often minimized needs that Human beings need met through their [...]

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What if They Ain’t Buyin’ What I’m Sellin’?

September 15, 2009

Here we are again, Joe Gerstandt and I, exchanging questions and answers.
Joe: We both focus largely on the intangible assets in an organization or community…the things that cannot be easily counted or weighed…things like difference, trust, relationships, culture, etc. What can we do so that more business leaders come to value these incredibly powerful (but [...]

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