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Part of having a business or running an organization is being intelligent with where you invest. Whether it’s marketing and advertising, or product development and research — investing allows you to pull in more profit and expand your company. However, many business leaders often forget to invest in their employees with 85 percent unhappy at work. This shouldn’t be the case, …
There has been a lot of discussion and debate around the question, “What happens when an unstoppable force meets an immovable object?” Well, I am not a scientist or mathematician, and I may or not be a philosopher. But what I DO KNOW is that if and when it happens, it’s going to be something to watch and remember. Concurrence …
Watch the video HERE In you haven’t already, you may want to first read Effectively Communicating Through Conflict – Part 1. Conflict makes your blood pressure rise, your mouth dry, your senses heightened, and puts you in self-protection mode. It’s almost like you are in psychological warfare. Well, it’s best to get all parties involved to take a deep breath and …
Tug not War – Part 2 Check out Part 1 and Part 3 In Part 1, we looked at four words associated with tension. They are conflict, stress, strain, or pressure. Tension on a team can be fatal. Teams are made of a diverse group of people, to say the least. They all have different behaviors and personalities. We often use the Personality Imprint™ and Team Imprint™ to assess the …
Tug not War – Part 3 In Part 1, we looked at four words associated with tension. They are conflict, stress, strain, or pressure. In Part 2 we discussed the word tension and how it can be defined as, “the act of stretching or straining.” Both are action words and both create a pull in different directions; therefore, we get “tension”. Note there is a positive side, “stretching”, …
Tug not War – Part 1 When you see the word tension, you usually think about things like conflict, stress, strain, or pressure. No leader wants these things for his team. These things will cause a team to self-destruct. It will implode and destroy anything connected to it. As leaders, we spend a great deal of time working on relieving tension from our team. …
Anyone who knows sports knows the importance of the term, “building the bench”. In football, a team has 11 players on the field at a time. In baseball, a team has 9. In soccer, there are 10. In basketball, there are 5 on the court. But it takes many more to field an entire team for a season. While we …
Watch the video HERE In you haven’t already, you may want to first read Effectively Communicating Through Conflict – Part 1. Conflict makes your blood pressure rise, your mouth dry, your senses heightened, and puts you in self-protection mode. It’s almost like you are in psychological warfare. Well, it’s best to get all parties involved to take a deep breath and …
No one likes conflict. Most people do not like confrontation. Unfortunately, it happens and you cannot avoid it. The issue is not the fact that conflict happens, as much as it is how we handle it. A great leader has the ability to make a rough situation not look so bad. You can usually diffuse a situation just by handling it properly. It …