From creating consistent rituals to allowing your team to blow off steam, here are the 13 answers to the question, “What are some helpful tips for first-time managers?” Form Team Rituals Have a Checklist of To-Do’s Ready Before One-on-One’s Find Out the Unique Details of Your Workplace Learn the Eisenhower Matrix Focus on Positivity Empower…
Lessons Learned During a Crisis As I reflect on our world today and what the future holds, I am cautiously optimistic that our world can heal itself if we are all willing to look inside with deep introspection and look outside with deep empathy. As a small business owner, there are some key lessons that…
PART TWO: Building Team Health with Collaboration In my last blog, I talked about how building a great foundation for healthy teams starts with the intention of leaders. To be successful with our teams we need honesty, and to be truly honest people need to feel safe. This incredible gray area between micromanagement and ghost…
PART ONE: Building with Intention We all know that leadership roles at any organization come with heaps of responsibility: there are metrics to be analyzed, budgets to be tracked, and progress to be continuously measured and questioned. It is a constant journey that never ends, but we push forward with the hope that we’ll be…
Power of Empathy What’s one thing you can do to significantly impact your chance of success? Practice more Empathy. Empathy is no longer looked at as just a soft skill, but something that is increasingly necessary for leaders and managers to increase their effectiveness and drive high performance from their teams. For many people, they…
There are tons of books, articles, and discussions happening around the topic of Millennials. More than I can ever remember, with any generation, we all seem to be fascinated with this “different” generation. There are hundreds of books and articles focused on helping you understand them, market to them, communicate with them and hire and retain them. I…
