by Michael Holland Manager Matt sits at the small table outside a coffee shop enjoying the fresh air and the aroma of coffee. He’s waiting for Erin, one of his employees, to arrive. It’s time to deliver her yearly performance review. Matt relishes the opportunity to have this climatic yearly conversation because he’s [...]
by Michael Holland Normal managers are everywhere: in fact, most managers are virtually the same in the way they manage and lead their teams. These normal managers follow the status quo of the culture and fight to maintain the mediocrity of entitled management, wearing their self-proclaimed status symbols of “Back to Back Meetings” [...]
by Michael Holland How effectively are you integrating new employees into your company? Into your team? To be honest, orientation programs usually suck. From an employee’s perspective, being loaded down with hours of mind-numbing data and stale presentations on the vision-mission-values of the company sets the stage for personal soul searching regarding whether or not they [...]
by Michael Holland Are you struggling as a leader to figure out how you’ll get everything done? Consider adjusting your “planning assumptions”: those parameters or guidelines that act as guard rails to keep you aligned on your original path. Planning assumptions are great when they help to keep you moving forward on autopilot, [...]
