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The Information Silo—Keep It Up or Tear It Down?
You’ve been staying on top of all the latest management strategies and operational techniques, and now you’ve set your sights on siloes — specifically the ones that exist in your company that you...
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The Multi-Generational Melting Pot — Making It Work at Work
If you’ve got an alphabet-soup of generations at your business, you’ve probably struggled with making your message fit your audience. However, the problem may not be with the content, but with the...
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Interviewing Strategies — How to Choose the Best Candidate for the Job
It’s not easy finding the right employee. Even if you hire a job search firm, at some point it comes down to you and the candidate, and you may not be entirely sure you have asked all the right...
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What They Want: Identifying Your Employees’ Preferences in Key Areas
There are those employees that are your star performers. You can tell from their attitude and accomplishments that they really want to be part of your company. If you were going to give them a...
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How to Give Productive Feedback
Whether you’re the owner, department head, supervisor or staff person, there will come a time when you have to provide your input on someone else’s performance. As uncomfortable as you might find the...
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How to Handle Getting Feedback
Part one of my two-part post on giving and getting feedback covered how to effectively provide feedback to your staff. But what about when the review shoe is on the other foot? How can you make sure...
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Creating a Company Culture: What it is and why it matters
You’ve developed your company’s slogan and have a tagline that appears on every marketing piece and press release. But what about your corporate culture? Can you describe it? Do you even have one? And...
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Course Correcting a Negative Culture
In the previous post, I covered the concept of company culture: what it is and why it’s important to develop one that supports your company goals. But what if your culture is a mass of confusing or...
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Creating a Productive Team
The saying “too many cooks spoil the broth” is true both in the kitchen and in the business environment. And it becomes obvious when teams are formed without a clear understanding of how a team should...
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9 Qualities of a Good Team Leader
The previous post detailed some strategies and tips for creating a productive team. In this post, we’ll look at what is needed to be a productive team leader. You can have the best, most productive and...
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