Archive for Management Insights
12 of the Worst Employees Types
ShareIn any organization, one should never expect or force everyone to like everyone. The strength and success of any organization is the cohesiveness and teamwork of its employees. However, there are certain employee types that we feel pose a disruptive effect to any cohesion within a company. Now, executives and managers can and will overlook [...]
Read moreDon’t hide it, bring it!
SharePassion is important. Passion is believing! If Passion is evident in what you do, your fans or consumers will immediately be able to tell the difference between a product that is passionately created or a performance that an artist performed with passion versus the one that was not. Sometimes truly passionate people try to hide [...]
Read moreDo not do this!
ShareOk, well we thought we have seen and heard it all in job interviews but kids, here are some of the absolute “do not do’s” on an interview. You might say after reading these, “no one would ever be that stupid”……well afraid so. Schools probably need to start teaching interview skills…Ya Think! Candidate said the [...]
Read moreIs this your Boss?
ShareWhat you don’t do can make as much or sometimes more impact than what you actually do — and can also say a lot about your leadership style and abilities as a manager. Here a list of 5 “Do Not Do’s”….Is this your Boss? Deliver annual performance reviews.Annual or semi-annual appraisals waste everyone’s time. Years ago my [...]
Read morePut the “I” back in Team?
ShareIt may seem like teamwork is commonsense, but our everyday understandings of how to work optimally together can be wildly out of whack according to a new book by Harvard psychology professor, J. Richard Hackman Here are three of the best “beliefs about teamwork that may be out of whack” and from our expereince we are [...]
Read moreWhat they don’t teach You in Ad School
ShareThere’s one thing that everyone in the fields of advertising, marketing, design, digital and the like all share: We were all once newbies. Young pups. No matter how we earned our first job or sneaked into this industry — and regardless of previous class work, internships and competitions – most graduating students have no idea [...]
Read moreSigns that your Boss may be Wimpy!
Share Avoids confrontation. Your boss cowers at the thought of having to deal directly with workplace issues and problem employees. Since issues are not resolved or people held accountable, your group’s performance is mediocre and its effectiveness declines. Likes the status quo. Unwilling to “rock the boat” for fear of “upsetting the apple cart” – [...]
Read moreAvoid the Complacency Syndrome
ShareOne of my favorite Will Rogers quotes is: “Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.” And this is so applicable to what we are seeing in too many businesses today. In fact, it has been a major topic of conversation in the coaching of [...]
Read moreIs your Company a Community or ? …
ShareMany executives tend to think of their company as a vast machine that they need to control. This naturally reduces employees into faceless cogs where nobody is indispensable, and everybody is as replaceable as a spare part. Individual initiative, goals, and desires are considered to be completely subsumed by the demands of the corporate machine. [...]
Read moreManagement Insight: Coach or Dictator?
ShareUnfortunately, many managers think of the job of managing as a matter of controlling employee behavior. Despite lip service to “empowerment” and “leadership”, the main thrust of management is to ensure that employees do exactly what management wants them to do. Under such regimes, employees who disagree with a manager or refuse to do something [...]
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