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Step Out of the Winter Doldrums Spring is coming, everyone! It may not feel like it but it will be here before you know it. How do I know this? Baseball has started Spring Training!! And that

Happy New Year! I hope you all had a great holiday break. By now, everyone is hard at work and well into month 1 of the year 2020!! And this is the time of year when people are either setting goals, fine tuning and tweaking them or....

It's that time of year - Halloween! Those with children or those of you that are just big kids have a lot of fun this time of year participating in it. That begs the question, are you ALSO having fun at work? You should! It just takes a little extra

Hello everyone! It's back to school time, nearing the end of Summer and we are about to hit a holiday weekend. I don't know about you, but typically this is where I (and many of you I am sure) start to "hit the wall" mentally and physical...

It's THAT time of year. Summer is over, school is back in full swing and the year-end crunch is upon us all! Planning meetings, budget meetings, annual reviews. The list goes on and on. Believe it or not, NOW is the perfect time to...

Getting things done correctly and on time is a daily challenge in today's fast paced working world. Lack of time and resources, more responsibility, higher performance demands, restructuring, and job changes have fundamentally changed the way wo...

Every Memorial Day weekend, since the movie Saving Private Ryan first came out, I have made it a habit to watch it again. Since the first time I viewed it, I became more aware of the price men and women past and present, have paid to help ensure...

Hello again faithful readers. I hope you are all doing well or at least the best you can do during these challenging times. No doubt, while we are all in this together and facing the challenge, the rest of the story differs from person to person.

Hi and welcome back, everyone! We are almost to the end of June and soon....the 4th of July!! And it finally, finally feels like Spring/Summer after a long delay for many of us. And soon, rather than rain and cold, we will suddenly be in the midst of...

The role of recognition and recognizing employees has been significantly under-appreciated as an important driver of business success, profitability, and performance in most organizations. According to most of the resear...

In my travels, especially this new year of 2018, I continue to have the pleasure of meeting people who exhibit what I consider a critical quality to life and work/career. There are tons of attributes, key characteristics, behaviors that help peo...

Welcome to the end of March and the approaching Easter weekend! And thank you to all who took the time to respond and reply with some great feedback on last month's newsletter. Glad you enjoyed it! This month, let's build on the fundamentals out...

Welcome to the end of February and the end of another Winter Olympics. As always, I start saying I won't watch that much and by the end I have been doing so for hours. And one of the things that consistently comes up for me during this time is s...

1. Leadership means building a team that's exhaustively prepared, but able to adjust in an instant "The only sign we have in the locker room is from 'The Art of War.' 'Every battle is won before it is fought,'" says Be...

My dentist happens to be in Washington, IL. I was out of town on business when this occurred and just got back on Friday night with NO clue how truly catastrophic the damage to that community was from the twister. Pictures a...

Getting things done correctly and on time is a daily challenge in today's fast paced working world. Lack of time and resources, more responsibility, higher performance demands, restructuring, and job changes have fundamentally changed the way wo...

Change can seem scary and if we think about it long enough and rationalize it to the ultimate degree....unnecessary. Thinks are fine the way they are now. My response to that would be, "Things are and will be fine for how long?". Without change

1. People are all unique in their own way. Find out the key elements of them, their style, their passions.
2. Leaders come in many shapes, sizes and personal styles. There is not just one box they all fit into. Sometimes it's hard t...
   
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Leave your ego at the door.  A big mental speed bump to delegation is that "If you want it done right, then do it yourself." Remember, you're not the only person in the world who can do it right. You may be the only person who...

I have been and always will be a strong supporter of employee engagement. If I have said it once, I have said it a thousand times, without the people in our organizations we CANNOT get where we need to be. They are the vital cog in the machine t...