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Developing People Through Talent Assessment
In Good to Great, Jim Collins taught us that we need to get the right people in the right seats. In small business, the seats are fairly standard: President, General Manager, Sales Manager, Operations...
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Socially Distanced Team Building
Now that so many teams are remote (intentionally or not), it can be tough to reinforce company culture. After all, there isn’t a lot of bumping into one another. Good team building activities should...
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7 Tips to Avoid Procrastination
Procrastination is a form of self-regulation failure that involves prioritizing short-term mood repair over the long-term pursuit of intended actions (Sirois & Pychyl, 2013). Basically, it’s more...
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Discover Your Areas of Working Genius
Patrick Lencioni and his team at The Table Group have developed a 10-minute online assessment called The 6 Types of Working Genius. The premise is that everyone has work activities that give them joy...
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Take The Stress Out Of Compensation
Few business leaders are immune to the anxiety and discomfort that go along with discussions of compensation. What we hear: “They think the bonus is a guaranteed part of their pay. It’s entitlement!”...
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Incentive Programs: Paying for Performance
A regular incentive program (or bonus) can be an excellent mechanism to redistribute the wealth a company retains in the good years and remain solvent in less successful ones. Ad hoc incentives can...
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Persuasion Tactics for Managing Change
Robert Cialdini has spent the better part of his career scientifically studying the principles of persuasion. His research has led him to conclude there are six main principles that guide persuasion....
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Managing Yourself: Values
Clarifying your personal core values is a key step to developing as a leader. Core values are the actions and behaviours we appreciate so deeply that we can’t help but behave in those ways. We are...
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Managing Yourself: Personal Hedgehog
Jim Collins and Jerry Poras popularized the term Hedgehog. They posited that great companies have everyone working on the one thing that they are exceptionally good at. Good companies can do many...
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Motivation in Demotivating Circumstances
Everyone occasionally slips into a funk when they’re doing the same thing everyday, eating the same lunch, wearing the same clothes. Not because they’re avoiding decision fatigue like Warren Buffett...
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