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Keeping employees from quitting their jobs after only a year or two is becoming a bigger challenge for many businesses across the county. Is it a problem for you? One recent article, “The New Reality of Employee Loyalty” that Peter K. Murdock wrote for Forbes, suggests that in order to keep new employees, companies should…
Some companies have deeply embedded positive cultures, others negative. And in general, positive companies deliver training that motivates employees, while negative companies frustrate and demotivate everyone. However, there are specific practices that positive companies use to achieve motivational training results. Best Practices for Making New Hires Feel Great about Your Company You could get a…
I have a secret that I would like to share with you as the new year begins. It’s that I will be publishing a new book in the next few months. It’s entitled Ingaged Leadership Meets the Younger Generations, soon to be published by Motivational Press. After the book is published, I will be sharing…
I’m an executive who was born before 1980. Are you too? If so, I believe we have something in common . . . We worry about supervising millennial workers Some managers our age are even scared to work with millennials. We don’t need to be. In my experience, the key to leading millennials is to…
Explosive Trend: Remote Employees, Including International Workers, Will Become a Larger Part of Your Workforce Today’s post is the first of a series in which I will introduce my predictions about explosive trends that I believe will soon transform your company and your way of working. I invite you to share your thoughts. Unless you…
“Of all the things a leader should fear, complacency heads the list.” – Leadership guru John C. Maxwell Is your company complacent? Of course, every company has areas of complacency, even very successful companies. Microsoft, one of the most successful companies in the world and clearly innovative, was suffering from complacency until Apple came out…
“Everyone needs a coach. It doesn’t matter whether you’re a basketball player, a tennis player, a gymnast, or a bridge player . . . We all need people who will give us feedback. That’s how we improve.” Bill Gates, founder and former CEO of Microsoft and co-director of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation,…
What is the most effective, simplest rule to follow when leading younger generations? It is to practice the Ingaged Leadership that I explain in this book. Ingaged Leadership is a style of management that “speaks” on every level to younger generations. If you listen well, provide autonomy, encourage risk-taking, and follow the other advice in…
I recommend telling people five positive things for every comment that could possibly be interpreted as negative – so in effect, you are operating on a ratio of 5 to 1 in positive versus ambiguous or less-than-positive communications. This practice will transform your leadership on the job, and it will produce surprising transformations in the…
Every year 24/7 Wall St publishes a list of the worst American companies to work for. When compiling this year’s list, 24/7 relied on company ratings compiled by Glassdoor.com, an organization that compiles millions of employee reviews of the companies where they work. Please note that in our blog post today, we are not going…
