4 Core Reasons Your Employees Hate Their Jobs—and How to Fix Them
It’s sadly become the norm in the U.S. to hate your job. We complain about working too much, yet we don’t seem to spend enough time doing something about it. Today’s reality is that we need to focus on attracting and engaging employees over merely “keeping them around.” Businesses need to learn how to appeal […]
5 Ways to Make the Most of Cross-Cultural Teams
When participating in a global economy (and who isn’t these days?), cross cultural team building is a must. As stated well in this article from The Academic Executive Brief, “Newly emerging cultural contexts in an increasingly globalized world require deeper consideration of the interaction of cross-cultural competency models.” To put it bluntly, if you’re managing […]
5 Ways to Engage Your Team
It’s the middle of a workday—do you know if your team members are engaged? According to the Gallup organization’s State of the American Workplace: 2010-2012 report, “70% of U.S. workers are not engaged at work.” Engagement is not the same as being happy or satisfied at work, although it is related. Engagement really gets into […]
5 Ways to Create an Employee-Empowered Culture
We’ve been working under the traditional business hierarchy for so long that it can feel fixed, especially in large companies. Most of us know there’s a better way. Company leaders want autonomous employees and employees want autonomy, but this type of culture seems to elude many while only a few have mastered the art. The […]
How to Encourage Entrepreneurs at all Businesses, not just Start-Ups
What comes to mind when you think of the word “entrepreneur”? The definition from Dictionary.com is “a person who organizes and manages any enterprise, especially a business, usually with considerable initiative and risk.” Some other definitions specifically refer to starting a business. But as with most English words, the best way to get to the […]
4 Steps to Better Meetings
For most of us in business, meetings take up a good part of our weeks. We’ve all been in really productive meetings where everyone leaves feeling energized and accomplished. Unfortunately, we’ve also all been in the meeting where no one is quite sure of the objective and the room is filled with open laptops or […]
Quote from Sun Tzu
“The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting”.
5 Practical Steps to Better Hiring
Have you ever been on a team where one person seemed to throw everything off balance? It usually goes like this: Ideas start to flow and then this person speaks up and progress screeches to a grinding halt. The air is sucked out of the room followed by an awkward silence. This is why hiring […]
3 Specific Ways to Improve your Company Culture
Company culture has become a hot topic in recent years. We know that the most successful companies of today respect their employees and take care to provide a positive work environment: not only because it’s the right thing to do, but because satisfied and valued employees contribute more to company goals. In fact, I recently […]
Inside the Mind of a Startup CEO: What does a startup CEO really do?
In many companies, there is a vast difference between what the CEO should be doing and what they are doing. Startup CEOs in particular should focus on just a few key things and then inspire others to handle the rest. It’s important for a startup CEO to keep their focus on the big picture and […]
The Joys and Tears of Entrepreneurship
When you own your own business, you can be on the top of the world one day, and stressed to the max the next. When you put yourself on the line to create something new, you will hit points of both utter elation and unimaginable frustration. Throughout my career as an entrepreneur and executive coach, […]
Inspired Workplaces Need Inspired Cultures
Recently, I’ve read several articles that address the creation of inspired workplaces. This piece from Andre Eikmeier, cofounder of Vinomofo (an online wine retailer out of Australia) makes some good suggestions that include flexible rules for employees (without going overboard) and a great physical space to foster collaboration and reinvigorate employees. Eikmeier also points out that […]