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Employees Need Help? Make It a Coachable Moment!
Giving employees solutions to their problems doesn’t help you or them in the long run. Asking questions of them to get them to develop their own solution will save you endless hours in the long run as well as develop the employee to a higher level of performance.
Sean Foley, Tiger Wood’s New Coach, Thoughts on Emotion
Keeping changes to behavior simple and understanding and managing your emotions are tips from Tiger Wood’s coach that all leaders can use when trying to increas their performance.
What Best Substitutes Face-to-Face Communication?
Email is an ineffective method of communication when it can have a detrimental effect on an employee performance, role and responsibility, an perception by others. Use the phone for better results.
CEOs Going Nuclear
In his recent article, Michael Wilkinson of Leadership Strategies, shares an experience when a CEO goes ballistic in the middle of a facilitated session. Michael shares how he dealt with the situation at the time as well as how he would handle it in a more effective...
Increasing the Effectiveness of Your Annual Retreat
Are you preparing for your annual executive retreat? Will you get the necessary return on investment from the multiple days that you and your executive team spend huddled in a conference room? One way to get the meeting off to a quick start is to have each participant...
Managing a Motormouth: How to Get Them to Talk Less
We all have encountered this type of person: Someone who talks excessively, may repeat himself continually, and can’t get to the point.In this age of sound bites, texting and tweets, it has become harder to tolerate the motormouth. So how can you manage these...
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.