7 Steps to Better Listening Skills
Effective leaders employ many skills, but none are more important than your list [...]
Why You Shouldn’t Make Team Members Responsible
One of the biggest mistakes that you can make as a leader is to make someone responsible for getting something done...We tend to equate responsibility with accountability and these are two, very-different words. Responsibility is our ability to give a response, to act. Implicit in this is a sense of timeliness. If your response comes late, you aren’t being responsible.
Create a Culture of Learning
Locked on Leaders create a culture of learning, one that demands others learn f [...]
Business Leaders are Community Leaders
How are you leading in your community? What can you do to help keep our economic engine turning while simultaneously keeping our community safe?
Staying Connected with Your Team in a 2-Dimensional World.
As businesses shift to a virtual workforce, it becomes more critical that leade [...]
Leading in Crisis
How to Plan for Survival In my life, I have always found that nothing helps in times of uncertainty like having a plan. If you aren’t sure what you can do, this is the time to rally your team and develop a plan. Remember, your job, as a leader, is to ensure that your team survives and thrives. Here are some considerations and some questions you can ask: • What is the nature of your customers, business or consumers?
Soft Skills, the Secret to Successful Hiring
Today, I want to discuss soft skills as it relates to interviewing and acquiri [...]
Do Your Applicants Have the Right Stuff?
Today’s mission is “how to determine if a potential teammate is a behavioral [...]
Interviewing for Values
In the previous mission, “How to Conduct an Effective Interview”, we discussed [...]
How to Conduct an Effective Interview
A question that I'm frequently asked is "How do I know that the person I'm inte [...]