by admin | Aug 29, 2017 | Employee Engagement, Management Tips, Managing Difficult Employees
There is no shortage of information on how to deal with difficult employees. In fact, I wrote a book about managing even the most unruly employees. Yet it’s not only employees who can be difficult—managers can be challenging to work with too. In fact, a Bossology...
by admin | Feb 2, 2017 | Leadership Development, Management Tips, Managing Difficult Employees
Language plays a crucial role in managing teams and empowering people. Not only is unbiased language powerful, so is behavior language. Let me explain. There are two types of language that is commonly used in organizations: behavior and belief language. Here are the...
by admin | Jul 28, 2016 | Generation Y, Management Tips
Some managers just seem determined to lose their best talent. They may not know that every time an organization replaces a salaried employee, direct replacement costs can reach as high as 50%-60% of an employee’s annual salary, with total costs associated with...
by admin | Jul 14, 2016 | Diversity in Workforce, Management Tips
I’ve been a runner my whole life, so I had a lot to learn when my daughter declared she wanted to play volleyball for the local league. It only took a few months of watching practices to get my mind in the game and notice many parallels to work teams. When you look at...
by admin | Apr 7, 2016 | Diversity in Workforce, Leadership Development, Management Tips, Managing Difficult Employees
We have something in common with rats that may surprise you. Those scurrying little (sometimes large) rodents ruling garbage cans across the world are actually capable of empathy, just like humans. Many species display empathy in some form or another, but...