Accentuate the positive: lead your staff to be their best
As managers, we're all taught that to improve our employees' performance, we need to identify and address performance or skill gaps with feedback, coaching, training, etc. While this is sage advice, what it tends to do is get us focused on the negatives. Our...
Tea stains, simple pleasures, and blind spots
The significance of an off-hand remark made at a group lunch didn’t hit me until later. The remark? “Tea is my favorite but I gave it up because it stains my cups.” What hit me? How we sometimes deprive ourselves of simple pleasures for inconsequential reasons...
Leadership “keeper” lessons from a fishing trip
As I cast the fishing line again and again into the incoming tide (I’m not about to win any angler prizes), it dawned on me there were leadership lessons to be learned from fishing. Holy smokes! I married into a clan with a rich heritage of fishing trips and tall...
When leaders need to be led
Today’s guest post is from Doretha Walker. Doretha is past president of the Charleston, SC Center for Women and blogs at Wecanflyhigher.blogspot.com. She provides inspiration and information to support women so they can fly to success. There are times we, as...
What will you be when you grow up?
What do you want to be when you grow up? Think how many times as a child or young adult that question was posed to you. Think about your answer. Did you say a firefighter, doctor, teacher, nurse, businessman, astronaut, baker or candlestick maker (couldn't resist!)?...
Bullies and intimidation
The participants at a homeowners association meeting were brainstorming ways to share neighborhood information. The goal was something quick, inexpensive, easy to use and readily accessible. The assembled group included Gen X, Y and Boomers. “Let’s use social...
