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Tag: Effective Feedback

9 Essential Questions to Help Tackle Tough People Issues

People issues plague business. As a leader, you have the primary responsibility to deal with them – and deal with them you must, because such issues never resolve on their own! People problems come in various stripes. There are the toxic superstars: people who produce phenomenally for your company, yet are abrasive to work with.… Continue reading 9 Essential Questions to Help Tackle Tough People Issues

Celebrate This Year’s Wins to Set Up Next Year’s Successes

It’s that time of year again – the time when leaders review the past year, frequently introducing the task with phrases like “What are the lessons learned?” or “Where can we do better?” or even “Let’s sit down and do a postmortem.” Such sober reflection is important – critical, in fact,  for business success. But… Continue reading Celebrate This Year’s Wins to Set Up Next Year’s Successes

I’ll Text You Next Year

Forget quarterly and annual reviews.  In today’s workplace, it’s all about instant feedback.  Millennials have learned to expect instant responses to texts and very quick turnaround on Internet searches. As they populate the workplace in greater numbers, leaders need to learn how to engage their employees by providing regular feedback about performance much more frequently… Continue reading I’ll Text You Next Year