This is not a long screed about all of the hero managers out there. This is a simple question: What are you doing to advance your career during tough times? You don’t have to be a superhero to tell your story. Whether you are working or not, times are different and for some times are [...]
The best managers carefully and consistently observe their people to find one thing they can work together on to improve employee performance right now. At the experienced age of 60, I decided to take up barrel racing. It’s a competitive event where you ride a horse in a clover-leaf pattern around three barrels. Your score [...]
As a supervisor or manager, why does cross-training on the job matter? What is cross-training? Cross-training is a term that is often used in physical fitness programs. It refers to developing different muscles so that the entire body is more healthy and efficient. But cross-training on the job isn’t about physical fitness. It’s about mental [...]
One more thing you should never do as a manager – or in any capacity for that matter. Never make, or let, an employee feel irrelevant. Image by Sander van der Wel from Netherlands, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons