How Laughter Can Unlock Colossal Collaboration

Do you struggle to get your team to collaborate on work?  Maybe you’ve tried everything, but disagreements about ideas as well as personality conflicts still take up too much time and emotional energy? You may have a group who are all individually excellent at what they do, but if they aren’t working together, you’re missing…

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How Customized Supervisor Coaching Maximizes Potential

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Have you ever wished you could have someone else’s skills, abilities, and/or talents? What made you feel that way? It could have been someone in your life who ignored your unique strengths or focused on your areas of weakness rather than your strengths. Supervisors who honor and bring out the diversity of individuals build strong…

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7 Amazingly Simple Ways for Supervisors to Build Trust

I don’t believe that “rah-rah” speeches motivate people.  In my experience, the more effective route is to hire people who are intrinsically motivated to do great work and then do everything possible not to de-motivate them. Few things demotivate people faster than working with a supervisor they don’t trust. Why is trust so important?  When…

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3 Things to Do Today to Prevent Turnover of Your Best Employees

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Employee turnover is a measure of how frequently employees leave a business. Turnover impacts company profitability. There are two predictable employee turnover spikes every year – spring and fall.  With fall just around the corner, now’s a great time to be thinking about how to reduce the amount of employee turnover we experience.

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