Tag: Behavior

• How To Be Professional

  How to be professional…  Workplaces can be full of all types of thinking, both good and bad.  The challenge with over 75% of the national workforce being unhappy at their current jobs comes when you see how that spirals out throughout the workplace dynamic/culture. So how do you protect yourself and remain professional in a […]

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  February 4, 2015

  Accountability, Employment Happiness, Engagement, Leadership, Management

  Behavior, Don’t be an idiot, Empowerment, Executive Presence, Focus

• The Positive Impact Of Complaining

  As for the positive impact of complaining…there is none. There are positive outcomes to constructive feedback, offering alternatives, and/or taking ownership of a potential new course of action. I’m not saying that your life is happy, joyful, fun-filled all the time as we know this is not the case.  I am saying framing action addressing the […]

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  January 22, 2015

  Employment Happiness, Engagement, Executive Presence, Leadership

  Behavior, Change, Don’t be an idiot

• How To Motivate

  I read this article today and enjoyed it so much I wanted to share it.  My favorite part: “Autonomy means we don’t like being told what to do. Once we feel we’re being pushed around, we check out.” The article is brief, but has some excellent advice/reminders of the simplicity of actually engaging workers and […]

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  January 12, 2015

  Employment Happiness, Human Resources, Leadership, Management

  Behavior, Connection, Engagement, Executive Presence

• Survival of the Fittest? Competition vs. Cooperation

  Survival of the Fittest? Competition vs. Cooperation?  Our culture has the propensity to value competition over all else. Often rooted in the Darwin alleged theory of survival of the fittest.  I’m not sure how Darwin’s theory morphed into the manner of how we often flippantly interpret it. I am however sure that interpretation is off base […]

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  January 12, 2015

  Accountability, Executive Presence, Leadership, Management, Time Management

  Behavior, Change, Connection, Engagement

• What Just Happened?

  This week I found myself asking myself “What just happened?!”  I had just finished raising my voice towards an employee.  That isn’t me.  That isn’t behavior I approve of or exhibit.  So what just happen? I want to preface this with I’m overjoyed that I had the knowledge to recognize I was at the beginning […]

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  January 14, 2012

  Accountability, Leadership, Leadership & Personnel Development, Management, No Excuses

  Behavior, Fear, Habit