Don’t Wear Out Your Best Team Members
The Gunnery Sergeant assigned to my class during Officer Candidate School (OCS) was big, mean and made Lou Gossett Jr. (from an “Officer and a Gentleman”) look like a kitty…
How To Increase Your Happiness With Dr. Kristin Layous
To quote Don Draper from the hit series, Mad Men, “What is happiness but that moment before you need more happiness?” It’s a practice. It is something we should be mindful…
Everyone Deserves To Be Respected With Steven Iwerson, CSP
It’s always nice when you get to talk to someone whose leadership ideas and practices align so closely with your own AND you get to learn some new stuff along…
Communicating For Success With Beth Mund
If Darth Vader knocks a tree down in the forest is he using the force of nature or is he the force of nature? Okay, that’s not a question we…
Lessons From The Battlefield With Shawn Rhodes
Want some lessons from the battlefield that are destined to increase profits and productivity? Now’s the time to set the wheels’ in motion to get 2018 off to that kind…
SIX THINGS ABOUT PERFORMANCE APPRAISALS
Giving someone their annual performance appraisal can be tricky if you aren’t mentally prepared. My first crack at debriefing someone was an eye opening experience! I had plenty of years…
Zucchini Bread and Leadership
I love to eat! And, because of this, I also love to cook. My cooking adventures started after my home economics class in the seventh grade (yes, I home economics…
YOU Choose How You Want It To Go!
I reached my hotel room at 1AM and wondered what the next day was going to hold for me. It had been the end of an extremely long day. I…
You Take Control
He would come in daily to verbally smack me around and let me know I wasn’t hitting the mark. I didn’t understand his leadership style but it certainly frustrated me. …