Sometimes coworkers act like children during meetings: making faces, passing notes, laughing at…not with team members, and being just plain sassy. It helps to set ground rules.
There are a number of different areas to consider when establishing ground rules.
Here are just a few: required or optional attendance, promptness – individually and as a group, usual […]
It is always awkward at the start of a meeting. Everyone is talking, and chit chatting, and need to get down to business. Establishing meeting roles will help.
There are five roles that need to be played during the meeting: a facilitator or leader, a time keeper, a ready and willing flip chart recorder or erasable […]
Managing change is a great challenge in a fast-paced and non-stop organization. Change seems to be affecting every industry. Given the pressures of technology, information, and people demanding more with less, change and transition has become the norm.
As a manager, you can have quite a positive impact in helping your staff succeed through chaos and […]
When in a high-profile position, a person is sometimes a target for criticism. Being criticized is hard enough when the criticism is clearly unfair, but it’s often even harder to hear when the criticism is on target.
Regardless of the accuracy of your critic’s comments, we either feel like counter-attacking or withdrawing non-assertively. Here are some […]
You may be the most highly skilled person in your organization. You may have the education, experience, and expertise. We all like things done and done right. So, do you dare delegate?
The answer is yes, you can dare to delegate. There are several factors that you should assess when determining whether or not you should delegate.
The first […]