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Warning Signs Your Staff Lacks Purpose (and What to Do About It)

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This is a guest post by personal development coach Bernardo Moya and author of The Question: Find Your True Purpose. It's all too easy, in the drive to grow your bottom line and build your customer base, to lose sight of keeping your staff motivated. That can have a bad effect on business. Ask yourself: Does your business have any of these symptoms: Unhappy staff are … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Management Tagged With: featured blogger, leadership mindset, morale, motivation

Ensure a Fun (Drama-Free) Company Picnic

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It's that time of year again for the annual company picnic. Whether yours is a huge party funded by your organization or a small backyard barbecue that you host for your team, they are full of opportunities for employees to embarrass themselves and your employer. Fortunately, whether you’re throwing the party or attending it, there are precautions you can take to ensure that … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Difficult Situations, Management Tagged With: leadership problems, morale, team building

Business Success Starts With Motivated Employees

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This is a guest post by Dr. Bobby Grossi, a motivational speaker and author of the book Destiny is Not Hereditary: How Becoming a Better You Impacts Others.   A business is made up of employees, so the assumption is that if you motivate employees, you will motivate the business. That is not necessarily the case. If employees are only motivated by money, it can often … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Management Tagged With: featured blogger, morale, motivation

Unmotivated Employees? Start Here.

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While motivating and inspiring employees (and keeping them that way) requires a good bit of strategy, a good place to start is simply to shift your language to be more positive. When people are constantly bombarded by negative messages, they can't help but feel negative too. It wears on them and can even convince them that nothing they do will be right. With some simple … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Communication Tagged With: communicating with employees, morale, motivation, word usage

Bolstering Equality and Diversity in Your Organization

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Today is  International Women’s Day, a global day that encourages us to take a minute and celebrate the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women. This year’s theme is #BalanceforBetter, and raises the question: How can you help forge a more gender-balanced world? For leaders, this question is vitally important. You have the potential to take actions every … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Management Tagged With: diversity, featured blogger, leadership mindset, morale, new leaders

5 Ways to Improve Mental Health in Employees

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This is a guest post from Marcus Clarke. The best step that leaders can take to improve an organization is to promote mental health among employees. Statistics have revealed that employees experience depression and anxiety each year, and these mental health issues affect employers and lead to huge losses. The nature of work and its expectations is often a leading source … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Management Tagged With: communicating with employees, difficult situations, leadership mindset, morale

Make Everyone Feel Acknowledged and Respected

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Few people get as much positive feedback as they need or deserve, especially at work. So if you see morale taking a nose-dive (or even if you just want to do something nice for your employees), complete this super simple activity to give everyone a big morale boost. Create an envelope with each team member’s name on it. Inside, include a piece of paper that also has that … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Communication Tagged With: feedback, Kevin Eikenberry, morale, new leaders, team building

4 Really Great Reasons to Write Positive Feedback Down

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Every leader has been told that offering positive feedback is one of the most valuable things you can do. You've heard of all the benefits. You may have heard that you don’t do it enough. If you’ve been reading this blog, you've likely learned the basics of giving positive feedback successfully, such as: Make it timely Make it meaningful. Make it about the behavior, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Communication, Personal & Professional Development Tagged With: coaching skills, communicating with employees, Kevin Eikenberry, morale, motivation

2 Words You’re Probably Not Saying Enough

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Today is Memorial Day and we honor the men and women who died while serving in the U.S. military. We'll attend parades, picnics or other celebrations, as a way to remember and show our gratitude to all the soldiers who died for this great nation and to thank the vets and soldiers still with us for their service. It has me thinking a great deal about saying "Thank you." It … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Communication Tagged With: communicating with employees, Guy Harris, leadership mindset, morale

Boosting Self-Esteem is the Key to High Performance

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Self-esteem is relatively scarce in the world and in your workplace. If you don't believe that, it's probably because: You have a healthy self-esteem and so you assume others do, or it never crosses your mind. You don’t have it, and are in denial, (or think you are the only one with weak or low self-esteem). Your people seem to have good self-esteem Self-esteem … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Management Tagged With: communicating with employees, Kevin Eikenberry, leadership mindset, leadership problems, morale

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