Archive for the ‘Supervision’ Category

• 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

• 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

• Crush a Culture of Misconduct

  • November 28th, 2017
  • Posted in Executives, Mangement, Supervision

  The recent workplace scandals seem to have jumped onto the front pages with a great deal of fanfare. Many long held secrets are secrets no longer.  After the requisite heads roll and people are fired or suspended and an investigation… 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

• Stop Being So Binary

  • August 14th, 2017
  • Posted in Change, Communication, Employee Development, Feedback, Mangement, Skills, Supervision

  When you ask ‘yes/no’ questions, you are often only looking for two possible answers. Sure – that’s more efficient. And everyone these days wants to be getting things done more quickly. But it limits the information you get before you even get it! And information is incredibly useful.

• Engaged: Near or Far

  • June 21st, 2017
  • Posted in Communication, Employee Development, Executives, Feedback, Mangement, Motivation, Supervision

  Employee engagement is what organizations are focused on today and the success or failure to create an engaged workforce lies squarely between the manager and the employee. It’s been said that people join organizations but stay because of management.

• Show Them They Have Value

  • June 7th, 2017
  • Posted in Communication, Employee Development, Executives, Mangement, Motivation, Skills, Supervision

  It doesn’t seem to matter what industry, organizational level, or number of years a manager has in their job; the biggest error I see the boss making is thinking that they need to have all of the answers. It’s not… Read More