Coaching
Now is the perfect time for business leaders, managers, and other so-called grownups to give a much needed reality check to the Generation Y employees that are on their staffs, those born between 1978 and 1990. This is the argument posed by Bruce Tulgan in his new book Not Everyone Gets A Trophy: How To Manage Generation Y.
Bruce Tulgan is internationally recognized as the leading expert on young people in the workplace, and one of the leading experts on leadership and management. Bruce is a best selling author and advisor to business leaders all over the world, and a sought after keynote speaker and management trainer.
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Sylvia Lafair on Breaking Family Patterns That Limit Success
How to dramatically improve professional relationships by taking control of the underlying behavioral patterns that undermine them.
April 24, 2009 / Podcast # 09-17
You know the type. Maybe he’s the office cut up or the woman who manages to look busy but avoids work or the guy who was the long suffering victim. There’s one in every office. Perhaps you or someone you know fits one of these profiles. These behaviors are painfully annoying and start conflict in the office.
Sylvia Lafair is author of Don’t Bring It To Work: Breaking The Family Patterns That Limit Success. Read more…
Michael Lee Stallard on How to Fire Up Your Team’s Passion, Creativity and Productivity
Want to find out how to create an environment that consistently fires up your team?
November 7, 2008 / Podcast # 08-45
Employee disengagement is a widespread malady in today’s organizations, causing the loss of billions of dollars, hours of dissatisfaction and work lives lacking true value. Scientific research has validated the powerful effect of emotional connections on human beings. When individuals feel a connection with their organization’s identity, their colleagues and their day-to-day tasks, it fires them up.
Michael Lee Stallard, president of the consulting firm E Pluribus Partners and primary author of Fired Up or Burned Out, explains the ins and outs of Connection Cultures. Read more…
Howard Guttman on Building High-Performance Teams
How a powerful new high-performance organizational model has changed the way leaders lead, team members function, decisions get made, and challenges are met.
August 29, 2008 / Podcast # 08-35
Standout performance is what it takes to be a top business team. In Great Business Teams, Howard Guttman examines the inner workings of over 30 business teams, at top-management, business-unit, and functional levels, to offer a radically new vision of the emerging horizontal organization and of the high-performing teams that are the cornerstone of its success. Read more…
Stephen Baum on Experiences That Shape Great Leaders
Leaders are made, not born.
May 16, 2008 / Podcast # 08-20
Becoming a leader is not about education or pedigree or even native smarts. Most of the most successful leaders started life as a regular person just like you. Certainly these leaders are smart and talented, but there are countless people even smarter and more talented who stall on the way. Something else is going on. What is it, and what can the rest of us learn from such people to improve our own chances of accomplishment? Read more…