If you want your business to reach its full potential, you need to build a strong team that can help your business scale successfully. Whether you're just starting out or your business has been in operation for years, the tips provided below will help you. But first, you need to understand what elements are needed for a team to be high-performing. What Makes a Team … [Read more...]
How to Manage Courageous Conversations at Work – Top 10 Tips
Feedback from my first article, How to Become a Better Leader for your Team, directed me to one topic briefly mentioned in the piece – how do we effectively deliver difficult feedback and manage ‘courageous conversations’. Whether you're running your own business or you're responsible for a team in a bigger corporation, at some point, you inevitably have to manage these … [Read more...]
How to Become a Better Leader for Your Team
It's no secret that one of the most difficult parts of being a manager, at any level, is the ability to effectively lead your team(s). Ironically, it's also an area that companies often neglect, with research from Grovo suggesting as many as 98% of leaders feel they would benefit from more training in this area. Whether you've been managing people for a long time or you're … [Read more...]
The Best Ways to Stay Engaged With Your Team
Guest Post By Deborah Sweeney, CEO of MyCorporation.com (learn more about Deborah at the end of this post) It has long been said that it takes a village to raise a child and likewise in the working world, it takes a team to run a business. Each individual team member makes a contribution that highlights their expertise in the field and works together as a group to … [Read more...]