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Research: Performance Reviews That Actually Motivate Employees
Forget the Dread — Performance Reviews Can Motivate. Here’s the Research to Prove It “People want feedback not just to improve, but…
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Overcoming Your Fear of Giving Tough Feedback
A lack of constructive feedback is detrimental to your team, depriving them of mentorship and growth opportunities. And workplaces marked by poor…
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How to Handle Office Gossip … When It’s About You
Gossip comes in different forms that serve different purposes. When it’s used as an indirect way of surfacing or engaging in interpersonal conflicts, it…
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How to Motivate Your Team When People Keep Quitting
When teammates leave, it can have a ripple effect. How can you help mitigate further attrition and keep everyone motivated and engaged…
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5 Ways to Get the Most out of a Mentor–Protégé Relationship
Mentorship can be an enormously valuable experience for aspiring and established business leaders alike. Working with a supportive, more experienced colleague can…
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Reinventing Performance Management
Like many other companies, Deloitte realized that its system for evaluating the work of employees—and then training them, promoting them, and paying…
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Managing A Top Performer Who Alienates Their Colleagues
You know the team superstar: The one who’s brilliant, high achieving, and outperforms pretty much everyone else — but burns through relationships…
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Feedback Is a Gift, Even When It Is Hard To Hear
The best leaders I know welcome honest, objective, and constructive feedback. If all you ever want to hear is how smart and…
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Leadership Thought #240 – Eight Questions Leaders Should Be Asking All the Time
As I've covered many times in previous blogs it becomes less and less and about you working harder or having all the…
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Leadership Thought #465 – Everyone Is A Critic
When you lead others, everyone is a critic. It is next to impossible to be fully aligned with another person 100% of…
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Leadership Thought #399 – Seek Out Mentors/Experts and Listen To What They Have To Say
Leaders aren't supposed to know it all, but they should be exceptional learners. There are many opportunities to learn and develop every…
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Leadership Thought #312 – Encourage Honest Feedback
Leaders should never surround themselves with people who only tell them what they want to hear. Even though it's tempting to exist…
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Leadership Thought #300 – Never Get To the Point Where You Think You Know It All
I often meet business owners and leaders who think they have it all figured out. Whenever this happens, a red flag goes…
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Leadership Thought #199 – Encourage Constructive Feedback
Many leaders struggle to receive honest feedback about their performance. There are many reasons for this, but fear is usually the primary…
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Daily Leadership Thought #98 – What Would Make You Fail?
I recommend that before taking on anything important in business (or life), you step back and consult the affected parties. Ask them…