Everyone has a finite amount of time to develop personal and professional skills. There is a long standing debate on employee development: do I help my employee work on their weaknesses or do I help develop my employee’s strengths? In the book First, Break All the Rules: What the World’s Greatest Managers Do Differently, Marcus […]
When I was nine years old, I remember grabbing my baseball glove for a neighborhood baseball game in an empty lot near the Methodist church. It was your typical pickup ball game in a dust lot: I brought my glove, my friend Andy brought a bat, Tom brought his ball, a half dozen other kids […]
Many companies and managers are finding it difficult during the economic downturn to reward their employees – but you do not have to reward them in cash! Sometimes, you just need to be creative when rewarding your employees. We’ve put together this list of 21 ways to reward your employees for free or very low […]
One of the times of the year some managers dread is annual performance review time. Unfortunately, we often do not provide frequent enough informal reviews to our employees and have to pop everything on them one time a year. Do you keep track of the accomplishments of your employees throughout the year? Do you correct […]