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Incentives That Inspire Your Team

January 10, 2017 by Rob

Incentives That Inspire Your Team

Most managers are familiar with performance-based incentives. These are the rewards your team or team members earn by achieving a set goal. There is another layer to incentives that adds value to your organization in a way that a performance-based incentive can not. I call it the team satisfaction incentive. The team sat incentive is […]

Filed Under: 1-on-1, Inspiration Tagged With: development, incentives, motivation

Building Up Your B Players

August 1, 2016 by Rob

Building Up Your B Players

Every team has a mix of players. A few are the stars or A players. The bulk are B players. Then you have a few that are C players. An article in Inc Magazine, “Managers Need to Start Focusing On This One Group” promotes the idea that managers should focus their attention on developing B […]

Filed Under: 1-on-1, Leadership & Management Tagged With: a players, b players, development, performance, team

Be A Scheming Manager

July 5, 2016 by Rob

Be A Scheming Manager

The art of managing is found in balancing the individual strengths, weaknesses, and desires of a team of people. Every person is great at something, weaker at other things and is hoping to do something beyond the dictates of their current role. Your mission is to align all of those elements within each person and […]

Filed Under: 1-on-1, Leadership & Management Tagged With: development, leadership, management

Start Here: Live And Learn

May 23, 2016 by Rob

Start Here: Live And Learn

There are so many ways to consume content these days. From YouTube videos to blogs, podcasts to tweets, many of us can satisfy our info fix in a myriad of ways. We know, though, that some of the greatest leaders of our time were avid readers. John Coleman, author of “For Those Who Want to Lead, […]

Filed Under: 1-on-1, Bookshelf, Newsstand Tagged With: development, new manager, reading

What Were You Thinking?

February 1, 2016 by Rob

What Were You Thinking?

Everyone makes mistakes. As a manager, you move your team members through failures to help them become better employees and individuals. Addressing errors, especially big ones, can be challenging for everyone. Confrontation is as uncomfortable for you as facing their mistakes is for your employees. A poor manager dismisses an error with a judgement about […]

Filed Under: 1-on-1, How would you say it Tagged With: development, difficult conversations, management

Be The Great Manager You Want

October 5, 2015 by Rob

Be The Great Manager You Want

Marcus Aurelius said, “Waste no more time talking about great souls and how they should be. Become one yourself!” A client of mine, Jack, worked for a small software company. Like many of these businesses, it was started by a young, serial entrepreneur. The company grew fast and hired faster. Neither the founder nor her […]

Filed Under: 1-on-1, Leadership & Management Tagged With: brain hacks, commitment, communication, development, great manager, leadership, management, mindfulness, transparency

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