Happy new year! I hope you and your family enjoyed a festive holiday season; my family and I had a wonderful time. It’s officially 2022; I personally love the start of a new year as it’s a fresh slate to set and achieve new goals while making more memories. However, I know for many, the…
I was scrolling through my archives, and I came across an oldie but goodie blog post, ‘Don’t be THAT Person’. For quite a few years, I’d publish the same themed article every holiday season, how NOT to ruin the holidays. Why? Cause people don’t seem to listen! I know this because I still get calls…
Welcome back! I hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving. We’re now in full swing for the holidays…and holiday parties. But before you begin celebrating the holidays, I wanted to have a quick chat about how you can close-out your sales targets with a bang. It all starts by not blindly sending your clients price sheets.…
As we draw closer to Thanksgiving, I like to take the time to reflect on the many reasons to be grateful for my life. This time around, I found myself thinking about my years in Corporate America and the many opportunities, though not always good, that have helped forge me into the man I am…
We cannot exist in a vacuum, whether we would like to or not. At work, it is essential to successfully collaborate with our colleagues and other leaders in the middle to get the job done right. Now, while I acknowledge the resistance to collaborate between groups may at times not necessarily stem from us, we…
More and more, I find myself repeating the same advice to my clients daily, “It’s never the right time to make a hard decision”. While this is applicable to several situations, today I want to chat with you about a particular one- and that is making the hard decision about poor performing employees. Nowadays, you’ve…
We’re a little bit excited about Halloween in my house. So, in honor of this upcoming “Fright Night” I wanted to dedicate this blog to talking about something we all fear, [perceived] boogie men bosses and the tall tales they inspire their employees to weave. Once upon a bright and sunny morning, after months of…
“Leadership development is not about this year’s new idea or a new program” -Nathan Jamail, Keynote Speaker, Bestselling Author This week, I have fielded calls from three different coaching clients inquiring about leadership development training for upcoming 2022 activities. It’s not unusual for this time of the year, in fact, I expect the…
Hello, hello! I hope you were able to catch last week’s article where we discussed identifying bad performers and recognizing that necessity in addressing the situation. This week we’ll close-out our miniseries by looking at how to address these bad performers. Let’s do a quick recap before diving in. Recap As a leader in the…
This week we’re going to kick-off a two-part mini-series on one of the most important skillsets every leader MUST master, identifying and addressing bad performers. Over the next two weeks we’ll examine how to pick them out, discuss why it’s important to address the situation and finally how to rectify this organizational speed bump. Let’s…