Communication is vital when delegating
Management is about getting results through people’s efforts. That means effective communication is essential. Here’s what to do.
Category: People Skills
Create a travel profile for your executive
Let’s start 2020 off with a bang by giving you some useful advice to help you better plan your executive’s travel.
The delayers who are driving you nuts
There are all sorts of reasons delays can occur, and sometimes it’s the behavior of your leader. Authors Amy Cooper Hakim and Muriel Solomon describe four types of delaying bosses.
How to tell if they’re lying to you
A study published in the journal Discourse Processes identified common signs that someone is lying through observations of an experiment where participants were instructed to lie blatantly, lie by omission or tell the truth.
Handle people who undermine you
Everybody has that one person who loves to knock you down a peg. Here’s how you deal with the problem.
Banish traits that start arguments
Some days it seems everyone is in a bad mood. Or maybe it’s just you. If you’re getting into more than your share of altercations, perhaps you need to work on one or more of these issues.
Try this team celebration for size
At the next office party or year-end celebration, consider hosting what we call the “Anything Awards” to have silly fun while challenging people to be creative.
So much passive-aggressive behavior!
In our professional environments, it’s not always possible or acceptable to express natural emotions like anger or resentment. Here are some ways of dealing with a passive-aggressive colleague.
5 tips make deadlines mean something
There are reasons why deadlines are difficult to hold, keep and enforce. By taking a look at some positive approaches, we can better use them to accomplish our goals.
Isn’t there an app for that?
Effective calendar management simply cannot be handled by a robot, an application or a piece of software. It takes brain power, empathy and deep understanding.