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Inside the Mind at Work – Facilitating Progress and Dealing with Setbacks by Dr. Maynard Brusman - Jan, 2012 Question for Discussion: How important is focusing on small wins in motivating employees? The topic of controlling bosses and perceived negativity comes up quite often in my executive coaching sessions. My clients want to have more input into decision-making and how work is done to stay engaged. It’s human nature that most people seek positive feedback on their progress to perform at their best. I often suggest to my c... |
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Unraveling Diversity Management: a Practitioner’s Road Map to Doing it Right by Gladis Benavides - Jan, 2012 Recently, one of my clients had a question that provided me with some food for thought. He asked, “When do I know that I have achieved diversity and created a work environment where everybody feels good about work?” I quickly responded, “Never!” He then asked for clarification, and that response took a little more time. After much thought and consideration, however, here’s what I came up: We need to understand that Divers... |
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Inside the Mind at Work - Manage for Progress by Dr. Maynard Brusman - Dec, 2011 One of my executive coaching clients, the Managing Partner of a Bay Area Law Firm and I were recently engaged in a conversation about assessing his firm’s talent. She talked about how one of the manager’s in the San Francisco location didn’t feel that one of her employees had the capability of developing into a leadership role at the firm. The manager displaying poor emotional intelligence communicated his assessment to t... |
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Seventy One Percent of Americans Disengaged at Work by Marcia Robinson - Nov, 2011 Responses from American workers In a recent tracking poll from Gallup, revealed that 71% of Americans were "not engaged" or "actively disengaged" as it relates to their work. Gallup defines this disengagement to mean, "they are emotionally disconnected from their workplaces and are less likely to be productive." If these results are right and 71% of Americans are emotionally disconnected from their workplaces that leaves just ... |
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Simple Ways to Make Employees Feel Appreciated by Marcia Robinson - Oct, 2011 Every employee likes to feel appreciated. Some companies go to great extent to make employees feel appreciated with bonuses, trips or perks for reaching or surpassing goals. However, making employees feel appreciated and valued do not have to be as expensive or take much time. If we were to ask most employees about what employers can do to make them feel more appreciated, the simple answers might surprise you. Some manager... |
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Using Video Games in the Workplace to Boost Productivity by Marcia Robinson - Oct, 2011 Have you heard about the latest trend to use video games to enhance employee engagement in the workplace? How about virtual reality competitions and video games with leaderboards and other trappings of gaming in the workplace? A recent Wall Street Journal article, Latest Game Theory; Mixing Work and Play, shed some light on the practice of what one might call "enhanced gamification techniques" in the workplace. The concept... |
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Leadership Resilience - Optimism and Resilience by Dr. Maynard Brusman - Oct, 2011 I was recently working with one of my San Francisco Bay Area executive coaching clients – the CEO of a boutique hotel and restaurant company. We had a deep and reflective coaching conversation about how his company bounced back from two recessions. We talked about how he was able to work through his personal distress and low mood. My executive coaching client and I further discussed how a leader’s emotions are contagious. I a... |
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Managing Complexity – A Leadership Checklist by Dr. Maynard Brusman - Oct, 2011 I was recently working with one of my San Francisco Bay Area executive coaching clients – the CEO of a Silicon Valley High Tech company. We had an enlightening coaching conversation, that revolved around how leading people and organizations today is much more complicated today than just a few years ago. Economic uncertainty and globalization, along with innovative technologies provides leaders constant challenges to successf... |
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Leaders: Embrace Being Wrong by Andy Robinson - Oct, 2011 True leadership sometimes means owning up to the idea of admitting you’re wrong. Consider this .... If you've done a great job of surrounding yourself with incredible team members, it's important to understand that they MAY have better ways of doings things or breakthrough ideas to consider. Hopefully, they WILL have better ideas and unique and (possibly) more powerful ways of handling problems and formulating winning sol... |
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Executive Team Building – Establishing A Team Direction by Shari Roth - Sep, 2011 One of the major roles of executive leadership is to build solid teams. Executive team building for results is grounded in knowing and understanding the direction of the team. The direction sets the stage for the purpose of the team and where the team is going. Without establishing a team direction you really don’t have a team at all. What you have is a bunch of individuals who are loosely affiliated but everyone goes off ... |
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