How Does Your Audience Listen to You?
Read Your Audience Know How They Listen to You (As seen at BizCatalyst 360) - As a small business owner, I am always in sales and marketing mode. Maybe you can…
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Amid Gloom & Doom: Phenomenal Job Growth Predicted
Gloom & Doom? From the headlines to politicians running for office to TED Talk gurus we are being fed a constant diet of frightening news and statistics on jobs, the…
Once A Year Performance Review vs. Mentoring NO CONTEST!!!
It’s time for your annual performance review. Aaarrrggghhhh! My sentiments, exactly. Before I started my company, I worked for several organizations that used annual, ratings-based performance reviews. To tell you…
Five Strategies To Strengthen Your Mentoring Program
...From my latest article for BizCatalyst360 In the beginning you had such high expectations for your corporate mentoring program. But the results may not be all that you had hoped…
Mentoring Partners Fully Engaged?
You’ve given them the tools, are they using them? Do they meet regularly? Are they producing the anticipated results? Is your program a showcase for excellence? If your answers to…
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Ensure Feedback is Heard and Used
Being able to understand and act on feedback is critical to your ability to be a fully functioning and contributing member of your organization. Another critical skill is giving actionable feedback.…
The 6th Strategy for Effective Mentoring
Successful professional mentoring programs make your people more productive and more profitable. Recently I wrote about five key strategies you can use to strengthen your mentoring program: Question – What…
Why You Should Be A Mentor
During a conversation with Stephanie Burns, founder of ChicCEO.com, she asked me if I had any compelling statistics about mentoring. When I told her that mentors can make an average…
I’M SORRY: WHY IT’S IMPORTANT TO APOLOGIZE AT WORK
I want to share this article by Ann Brown at MadameNoire. It went live on April 16, 2015. If apologizing doesn't come easy to you or someone you are mentoring, I…
Five Strategies To Strengthen Your Professional Mentoring Program
In the beginning, you had such high expectations for your corporate mentoring program. But the results may not be all that you had hoped for. Both the mentors and mentees…