Archives: August 2011

Think of the best boss you have ever had in your adult work life. Now what are the top three reasons you said this is your best boss? If you are like many you answered with statements like:

• Lead by example
• Encouraged everyone
• Rewarded fairly
• Held me accountable
• Empowered me

Now either...

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What Makes You Happy… at Work? Ron constantly complained about the work load. He was always telling his co-workers that he is so busy he is not sure when he will be able to get to the project they want. Week after week a new challenged was introduced. Can you relate? Have you eve noticed [...] Read More

What would you do? You are driving a block away from your home and you see a person running up the sidewalk waving their arms and they yell “STOP!” You put down your window and the person says; “My neighbor behind me is down!” The person talking is almost in a panic state of mind. [...] Read More

Why Good Employees Leave and How to Retain More of Them A job-hopping market is about to take off and retaining good employees will be crucial. Are you ready? Vickie left the mortgage company she worked with for several years for a competitor and a promotion. No one could blame her for leaving; after all, [...] Read More

Six Teaming Tips for Leaders In 1985 Beth was a closer for a mortgage company and it was the very first refinance boom. She and the rest of her team worked almost 80 hours per week the last two weeks of each month, for most of the year. It was “expected” of them if they [...] Read More

Pulling Your Team to Success Eight simple steps for moving from mediocrity to greatness. Have you ever flipped through the channels on your TV and ran across one of the strong men competitions? You know the type - one man attempting to move a jumbo jet so many feet, and the man who can do [...] Read More

Teamwork—What is Missing? If a process is skipped… it usually requires significant work to make the correction. Bob was out one Sunday afternoon and dropped by a new concept house. With soaring utility prices Bob thought the concept was pretty interesting. Bob owned some land and thought he would take the ideas he saw in [...] Read More

Ten Tips for Solid Team Development We have been talking about teamwork for quite sometime. I am often amazed at the questions I get about how to structure a team and how the team actually develops. The biggest challenge goes back to something that my father told me when I was in the third grade. [...] Read More