Leadership
A Surprising Way to Be a Better Supervisor
If you’re stressed at work, people around you can feel it. It makes others uneasy. They wonder if you’re going to snap and walk out or even unleash on them. Now they’re stressed out too! The most dangerous thing about stress in the workplace is that it’s contagious. It can run through a department faster…
Read MoreHow Effective Hiring Can Make You Money
If you’re like me, you may be planning for the year ahead, and that likely includes your staffing plans. Who will be leaving due to retirement? What positions will need to be added in order to meet your goals? If you have positions to fill, that means you’ll need to do some hiring. Do you…
Read MoreHow to Hold More Effective Meetings
In the work world, you’ll rarely see more eye-rolling as you do when you announce a meeting has been scheduled. Meetings feel like a necessary evil. Even if we believe communicating as a team is important, it feels like meetings steal time from individual productivity. The gatherings have developed a bad rap because they can be…
Read More4 Secrets to Managing Conflict for Supervisors Stuck in the Middle
Occasionally, I’m swept up in the moment and forget the adage, “There are two sides to every story.” (In the workplace, there are even more sides than that!) After all, managing people can be a hectic job where time is at a premium and emotions sometimes get the best of us. My many years in…
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