Never Enough Time
It’s a cliche of executive life: you don’t have time to do everything. Whether you use little slips of paper, a planner, scheduling software or a Palm Pilot, all attempts at time management fail. Rather than throwing in the towel, I suggest that you need a new frame of reference. Change your focus from time management to priority management.
Create a list of priorities
Your strategic plan should highlight your business priorities. If you don’t have one, take a look at …
Nlp Coaching Goal Setting For Success At New Year Resolutions
This article is about the many different ways we can trip ourselves up in setting goals, particularly with New Year Resolutions and what you can do to change.
Many people evaluate their lives and set new patterns around the New Year. There are several ways that this can deliberately set you up to fail.
Often this is done because there is an expectation from others that you should set resolutions at this time of year. Also there is often a sense of giving things up or a …
Ask Don’t Tell Leadership – What If I Lose Control Of My Staff As A Leader?
Question: I am a sales manager for a business services firm in Minneapolis. I am responsible for all new business revenue for my company and I have 5 sales people that work for me. Of the 5 sales people only one is a star performer. The issue I am having is he breaks all the rules and creates really bad relationships with all the other people in the company. I am on the senior team and the rest of them are angry that this keeps happening. While I don’t like to hear the commen…
How One-on-One Executive Coaching Can Work For You
One-on-One executive coaching can give your leaders the creativity and training they need to make your organization excel. Read more to see how.
Leadership Just by Being Yourself
Real leaders are prepared to reveal their weakness, because they know they are not super-human. Leaders should reveal their personality quirks – maybe they can be bad tempered in the morning, be sometimes shy with new people or even a little disorganized. Such admissions show they are human.
Peers and Power Are a Potent Mix
Have you ever walked into a high school locker room or a martial arts class? The smell that hits you is that of competition and sweat. In meeting rooms in organizations around the world, the dynamics, if not the aroma, are similar, as peers jockey for power in an adult version of sports competition.
What Stops You?
Have you ever had a terrific idea which you didn’t act on? Of course you have. I don’t mean anything fancy either. Nothing earth-shattering. Just a plain old-fashioned good idea which would have made you more money. But you didn’t get moving on it.
Oh well.
I have a friend I’ll call James. James is an independent management consultant and a deep, creative thinker. I have great respect for his abilities to understand his clients and develop unique solutions for them. But…
Customer Advisory Boards
Customer Advisory Boards are a great source of information about your market and your business. Their advice is more valuable than any management consultant’s. They provide real world counsel on what you are doing right, what you are doing wrong, and most important -how to stay competitive. After all, they’re the customer. They’re the one’s who buy your stuff. Here’s how to use your Customer Advisory Board for best results.
1. Make it win-win.
As much as they might like …
Equity: The Golden Handcuffs
Last month, I wrote about positioning your company to attract and keep top performers. One very effective way to do both is to compensate your key employees with equity.
Performance pay has become a critical factor in keeping top talent; combine it with a sense of ownership and a stake in the future of the business, and you’ve got a powerful set of incentives.
That is what equity does. The basic theory behind equity compensation is simple: generously pay your people in …
Executive Career Coaching: Providing Solutions To Succession Planning Challenges
Organizations today are facing several challenges and talent management is one of the greatest. According to a poll conducted by OI Partners, Inc., the number one challenge facing the HR profession is leadership development and succession planning. Attracting, developing, and retaining quality talent is more costly and has a greater impact on the bottom-line than ever before. Retiring baby-boomers, the expectations of Gen X and Gen Y employees, and the new definition of “long…