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4 Ways to Assess Your Current Onboarding Practices
As a company leader, you are responsible not only for hiring the best new talent at your company, but also making sure that that talent is utilized in the best way it can be—not only for your achieving results, but also for helping your new employees feel that they...
Leaders: Fight the Gremlins!
You know what I’m talking about, those nasty, evil and mischievous behaviors that can derail you down the wrong path to a world of fire breathing dragons.In the spirit of Halloween, I thought I would devote this Leadership Development article to avoiding gremlins. So...
Leadership: Trick or Treat?
For all you new leader-managers out there and you know who you are. Until recently, you were performing as a super-star engineer, programmer, scientist, accountant, sales rep, to name a few and then you were offered the opportunity to manage. This step up was what you...
Why You Need to Grow Your Best Employees In Order to Grow Your Business
In business, as in life, the squeaky wheel usually gets the grease. It’s not uncommon to see leaders spending all of their time fussing over their problem employees in an effort to get them up to snuff. But beware: low performers are energy vampires, and your other...
21st Century Performance Reviews
You know you hate them and so do your employees! Yet instead of figuring out what can be done to make performance reviews a positive experience for both you and your employee, you ignore the problem. Many small companies don’t even do performance reviews. But if you...
The Title Inflation Trap
My work over the years has been with both large and small companies. And one of the problems that smaller companies often have is giving an employee a title bigger than their actual responsibilities.Just recently I was having a discussion with the president of an...
Beth Armknecht Miller’s passion for learning and dedication to bringing out the best in others are strands woven throughout her career and are found in her work with Executive Velocity, a top talent and leadership development advisory firm.