Archive for the ‘Communication’ Category

• Take it Personally

  • February 19th, 2019
  • Posted in Communication, Consulting, Employee Development, Feedback, Motivation, Stress

  “It’s not personal – it’s just business.” Have you gotten that advice from someone? When receiving improvement feedback, involved in friction or conflict, when an organization undergoes a reorganization, a proposal is rejected, a valued employee leaves – lots of… Read More

• What if the Talent You Want to Hire Doesn’t Come with the Skills Needed?

  • November 6th, 2018
  • Posted in Communication, Employee Development, Employment, Executives, Mangement, Skills, Supervision

  Have you heard about the war for talent? With less applicants to choose from attracting and keeping talent has become a critical issue for organizations nationwide. This is not a situation that will be going way in the near future… Read More

• Building an Adaptive Organization

  • October 15th, 2018
  • Posted in Change, Communication, Consulting, Executives, Mangement, Motivation, Skills, Supervision, Support

    How does one go about building an adaptive firm? Increase the Visibility of Opportunity This can be accomplished through careful job design. Work should have defined objectives for which people will be responsible.  Each organizational level should be kept… Read More

• Engaged!!!

  • October 1st, 2018
  • Posted in Communication, Employee Development, Employment, Feedback, Mangement, Motivation, Supervision

  Congratulations!  People who get engaged usually receive lots of congratulatory support. You have made a commitment to get married. You start to plan your life together and plan the official public ceremony to kick off the legal bond of matrimony…. Read More

• How Can We Find/Get/Keep More —-

  • September 17th, 2018
  • Posted in Communication, Employment, Executives, Feedback, Mangement, Motivation, Support, women

  Many organizations bemoan the lack of female and minority candidates for senior management and executive positions. I don’t know where they are looking or what they are doing, but there is no secret about how to find them. attract them,… Read More

• What If My Boss is Incompetent?

  • July 17th, 2018
  • Posted in Communication, Employee Development, Employment, Executives, Mangement, Planning, Skills, Stress, Supervision, Support

  You may have a boss who is inept. Not a horrible person – but someone who doesn’t have the knowledge, experience, skills, or judgement to do their job. They are out there in every industry and at every level. They… Read More

• Disagree With the Boss Agreeably

  • June 18th, 2018
  • Posted in Communication, Executives, Mangement, Planning, Preparation, Presentation, Skills

  Have you ever had a disagreement with your boss? Found yourself unable to get a word in, respond at all, or come to your own defense? Unable to get the boss to move from the opinion they have already formed?… Read More

• The Secret of Success Might Be Curiosity

  • February 22nd, 2018
  • Posted in Communication, Feedback, Mangement, Skills, Training

  It has been said the ‘curiosity killed the cat.’ So I guess I shouldn’t have been surprised when participants in recent training programs, while instructed to ask questions in an interactive exercise, stated that they didn’t want to appear intrusive;… Read More

• Jonidaniels.com – Time to Be Better

  • January 17th, 2018
  • Posted in Change, Communication, Consulting

  I realized it was time to revamp and refresh my website. I thought about what I wanted to communicate to those who know me and those who don’t know me yet – the people who land on www.jonidaniels.com. Websites are… Read More

• Showing Up is Not Enough

  • October 24th, 2017
  • Posted in Change, Communication, Employee Development, Feedback, Mangement, Motivation, Skills, Supervision

  High self-confidence and self-esteem can prevent people from improving: if you are not aware of what needs improving, how can you get better?