Archive for the ‘Feedback’ Category

• Create Great Workplace Relationships

  • July 23rd, 2019
  • Posted in Change, Communication, Feedback, Planning, Skills

  You may have the best product to offer or the most effective technology on the market but most people acknowledge that good relationships are essential to the success of any business.  When it comes to creating new business relationship, how… Read More

• 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

• Whoosh – 30 Years

  • January 22nd, 2019
  • Posted in Change, Consulting, Feedback, Motivation, Uncategorized

  I recently read that only 44% of businesses survive the first 5 years! That gives D&A a great reason to celebrate in 2019 – our 30th year. I didn’t think running my own business was a good fit for me…. 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

• You Never Lose a Great Mentor

  • August 15th, 2018
  • Posted in Executives, Feedback, Guided Execution 1:1, Mangement, Support

  It’s hardly a secret that as we get older, we know more people that die. But when a mentor dies, there is a unique kind of loss and heartbreak. We lose the future lessons we will not get to learn… 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

• 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?

• Not WHAT – HOW

  • October 5th, 2017
  • Posted in Communication, Employee Development, Feedback, Mangement, Skills, Supervision

  When managers are not happy with employee performance, they often provide improvement feedback, advising the employee what they want to see. Sometimes it’s general: I want to see an improvement in your communication You need to improve your relationships with… Read More

• More Effective Conversations NOW

  • September 19th, 2017
  • Posted in Communication, Feedback, Mangement, Preparation, Skills

  Most people are overly focused on getting work done and the interpersonal skills required to work well with other people well gets second (or third or fourth) billing. However, if you are looking to have more effective conversations, you can!