Employee Disengagement is the SILENT KILLER!

Employee engagement is a popular topic these days.  And for good reason.  Employee engagement has been staggeringly low for many years (although there has been some improvement in it lately).  I will talk about employee engagement in a future blog, but this post...

Don’t Shoot the Wounded

I remember a definition I once heard of auditors.  It was said that they came in after the battle and shoot the wounded.  (My apologies to all of the auditors out there.)   Recently the term came up again.  It was used in terms of a leader that comes in after the fact...

Proactively Handling Conflict in Teams

Most teams have some forms of conflict in them.  It’s just a fact of life.  Where people are involved, there will be some conflict.  Whether it’s egos, conflicting personalities or competition, something will get in the way of productivity.  The idea of...

Nine Behaviors of Servant Leaders

According to the Servant Leader Institute (https://www.servantleadershipinstitute.com), there are nine behaviors of servant leaders.  Are you putting them to work in your leadership role?  I recently was exposed to this list and thought it was rather thorough. ...

Now For Some Good Listening Skills

The past two weeks I shared part 1 and part 2 of a list of how to be a bad listener.  These were inspired by a list from the book entitled “The Listening Life” by Adam S. McHugh,  McHugh also offers some suggestions on how to be a good listener.  In this...

How to be a Bad Listener (Part 2)

Last week we hit on the fun topic of  “how to be a bad listener”.  As I said, there are plenty of resources on how to be a good listener.  But after reading “The Listening Life” by Adam S. McHugh, I was intrigued by his list on how to be a bad...