Posts Tagged ‘Attitude’
Good Listening = Good Leadership
As a leader, listening to what your employees have to say is conveying that you genuinely care about them. If you make listening a priority by taking into consideration what your team members are telling you…with an open mind, without problem solving or seeking conclusions, while that person is speaking, it will be appreciated and…
READ MORE...Are you an initiator?
A certain farmer had become old and ready to pass his farm down to one of his two sons. When he brought his sons together to speak about it, he told them: The farm will go to the younger son. The older son was furious! “What are you talking about?!” he fumed. The father sat patiently, thinking. “Okay,” the…
READ MORE...What your boss prefers…
Day in and day out, whether it’s personal or professional, impressions are very important. Unfortunately, we can’t get around it, it would be wonderful if we could be judged solely by the quality and quantity of our work but it just doesn’t work that way. Some supervisors judge their employees on their contributions and others…
READ MORE...Are You Having a Good Day?
If you ask most people “Are you having a good day?” they will have some method, no matter how arbitrary or factual, to provide an answer that they are in fact having a good, mediocre or bad day. If you ask employees at most companies “Are you having a good day?” they have some method…
READ MORE...Think like a Winner!
A while back, I participated in the Leadership Summit sponsored by Fortune Magazine in collaboration with Verne Harnish of Gazelles. Among the many great speakers over the two-day event was Rabbi Stephen Baars. The Rabbi was not one of the seven-featured speakers but rather is one of Verne’s favorite speakers that is invited to do…
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