Posts Tagged ‘leadership development’
Employee Engagement Starts with Clear Communication. (The Worksheet)
Do your employees understand your emails? What about your conversations? Do they always do exactly what you expect? Do they ever ask you questions that you have already answered? More than once? Do your instructions sound too much like last week’s recipe example? What are you saying It’s not just your clients and prospects who…
Read MoreBeyond Instructions: Delegating Responsibilities, Not Just Tasks. (The Worksheet)
When you need a diced bell pepper, what matters is that you have a diced bell pepper, not how it was chopped. Getting things done in your business is not that different. What matters in your business is getting results while respecting your principles. Those are the boundaries. Within those boundaries, there is space to…
Read MoreDelegate, Automate, Outsource: Choosing the Best Path for Your Workload. (The Worksheet)
Here is an example of how not to delegate work: Delegate somewhere, somehow You completed an exercise last week to get comfortable with delegating. Now, it is time to choose what gets delegated. And automated. And outsourced. Delegate more, do less Because those are your options when you decide to delegate. You can delegate: hand…
Read MoreHow Delegation Drives Employee Engagement and Trust in Your Small Business. (The Worksheet)
Trust me, I get it: of course, you can’t delegate work. You would like to delegate work, it would be great if you could delegate work, but it isn’t that simple, is it? Why you don’t delegate Where to even begin? *This is my favorite, for more on this see this week’s video. Why you…
Read MoreHow to Boost Employee Engagement: The Engagement Equation. (The Worksheet)
You poured your heart and soul into your business. It’s your baby, as they say, and you want everyone on your team to feel the same way. But that doesn’t happen overnight. Sure, they might be excited to join you and to be part of your vision. But it takes time to truly own a…
Read MoreHow To Write Goals That Drive Employee Happiness. (The Worksheet)
Business goals are about success and growth. One thing you need to achieve business growth and success is happy employees. Because happy employees are productive employees, and happy employees are effective employees. Happy employee goals Make sure your business goals, objectives, and aspirations include making your employees happy. It is part of your responsibility as…
Read MoreWhat you now know about… Everything 😀
Your business does not exist in isolation. You now know some of the most common service providers you’ll work with in your business. Most importantly, you know that working with any service provider always comes down to one thing: That one thing. Know one thing Your business service provider wants to know one thing: what…
Read MoreWhat you don’t know about… Employee Morale 😤
“How do I know what my employees are doing all day?” Step 1: good KPIs. Instead of tracking their desk time, track their results. But productivity isn’t the only consideration here. Employee engagement and happiness can be reflected in how they spend their time at work. I spoke to Tess Gamble, founder of the concierge…
Read MoreWhat you don’t know about… Hiring Risks 🤪
Hiring employees. It’s risky business. It’s also necessary. Knowing the risks of hiring makes you less likely to run into them. This is why I spoke with Charlotte Merritt. Charlotte works at Insperity and her mission is to reduce employee turnover. “Each time you hire – whether to backfill or grow, you are opening yourself…
Read MoreThe People Equation: Branding + Hiring = Formula for Double Success (6/8)🤩
Have you noticed a common theme throughout these branding posts? It keeps coming up even if not explicitly. What am I talking about? People. It’s always all about people. How people in your company behave. How people in your company work. People and branding are tightly intertwined. Branding or hiring, which comes first? A strong…
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