4 Tips to Help Managers Give Terrific Performance Reviews

Reading Time: 13 minutes 4 Tips to Help Managers Give Terrific Performance Reviews “Anything worth doing is worth doing badly.” – G. K. Chesterton The first time I heard this quote, I thought it was genius. I recognized the tendency in myself to suffer from “paralysis of analysis”. I was bent on doing things perfectly, which kept me from […]

How managers can fix employee ethics and productivity problems

Reading Time: 33 minutes   Cliches are cliches because they are generally true. One cliche that is overused is one attributed to any number of famous people. Regardless of who said it, I believe it is a great leadership principle: “Man has two ears and only one mouth. Therefore, we should listen twice as much as we speak.” I’ve spent over 40 years […]

How to help your employees better navigate the workplace

Reading Time: 35 minutes After over 40 years of managing people, I’d like to think I’ve seen and heard almost everything. Still, I believe in the saying, “Behind each set of eyes, there is a story.” I know I can’t always trust what I think I’m seeing. If you only get one thing from this post, I hope it’s this: Ask your […]

How managers can solve communication and meetings issues

Reading Time: 30 minutes To be honest, I hesitated before writing this post. What I didn’t want it to be was, “Here’s what you need to tell those misbehaving staff” post. In my many years of managing people, I have found that whenever I have taken that approach I’ve been met with a glassy-eyed stare, like I’m Charlie Brown’s […]