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Ingaged leadership is a new approach to leading that I have developed. It is based on a simple concept . . . When you align people and create an organization where everyone works together in partnership, that organization becomes vastly more successful. There are many business settings where organizations can apply this new way of…
You have an awful lot to teach new employees in the days and weeks after you hire them. That can make it easy to overlook the fact that some of your new hires could have a lot to teach you too, in critical areas like these: They can often provide useful real-world intelligence about potential…
Practical leadership advice from my new book Ingaging Leadership Leaders at many companies typically use the term collaboration to describe brainstorming sessions that are held to generate ideas around a specific topic or problem. The leaders of those companies often seem to believe that effective collaboration means getting people together into the same room…
Our CEO wrote his new book Ingaging Leadership to help people improve their leadership skills and build great organizations, not to win praise. But it is still exciting to learn that readers are already achieving positive results from using the philosophy of Ingagement that Evan lays out in his book. If you don’t know…
Phillip Hatfield is a certified Zig Ziglar team member and a powerhouse motivational speaker who gets trainees to transform themselves into top performers. So it comes as no surprise that he believes that great training depends on face-to-face encounters between trainers and trainees. “Too many companies today believe that online training is all they need…
All of us at Tortal Training are proud of our CEO Evan Hackel. He just wrote a new book, Ingaging Leadership: A new approach to leading that builds excellence and organizational success and we’re all talking about how wise and useful it is. We hope you will look at its listing on Amazon.com and…
In the Breakthrough Ideas in Training webinar that TJ Shier presented for Tortal Training this summer, he recommended offering incentives to employees who take part in training and use the skills they learn. In the months since that session, we’ve been getting some feedback about using incentives in training. “What a great idea,” one…
In his recent webinar for Tortal Training’s Breakthrough Ideas in Training, Mark Sanborn commented that, “There are only two ways to grow a business today. One is to grow yourself, the other is to grow your team. Creativity, productivity, operational excellence, great service and effective selling all start with making your skill set, and…
Once you’ve figured out exactly what your training needs to accomplish, it’s time to find the disconnects. By identifying the differences that exist within your company, you can create strategies and solutions to make sure everyone is on the same page. Here are two gaps that you must be mindful of when training employees: 1….
I think there’s nothing that has a greater impact on cooperative than a live event. Exhibit A to that argument is an annual convention. A very close second are town hall meetings where management hosts regional sessions to both share information with franchisees and members to listen to their concerns. In fact, I could make…
