By Michael Holland Your employee has asked to see you for a couple of minutes. Your instincts jump and your soul is telling you that it is likely the employee is going to resign. The meeting is as you thought; the employee has accepted a new position. This is a great opportunity… for [...]
by Michael Holland Have regular conversations with your employees, one-on-one, about their work and themselves. It shows your employees you are interested and care about meeting their needs. The information you learn will help you to better manage each person and you will find that your employees will appreciate the conversation. Below are [...]
by Michael Holland Great managers execute well and help their teams to deliver on the organization’s priorities. Hard working employees will deliver for great managers. Great leaders have heart and create passion for a cause. Passionate employees will give all they have to assure success of a cause. Find your heart and evolve [...]
by Michael Holland Take a strategic leadership approach to coaching and mentoring your employees. Determine one or two key performance areas for each employee. Choose performance areas which will provide the employee an opportunity to grow, explore or enhance talents. With each key area, determine how you will plant and water a seed to help [...]
by Michael Holland Advancing in an organization provides fantastic opportunities for you to leverage your loyalty and relationships. Some of these relationships may have been forged before you were a manager. A difficult challenge for most leaders is developing a clear demarcation line with regard to friendships and the leader’s authority role especially when managing [...]
by Michael Holland Is there a way to get your employees to act accountably? Yes! Start by making sure you allow it and support it. Ask yourself: Are you role modeling accountability - are you stepping up, solving problems and acting accountably? Are you coaching accountability - are you talking about your expectations, providing feedback when you [...]
by Michael Holland Great leaders portray an image of knowing the outcome of events well ahead of time. They seem to visualize the future and know exactly when and how to turn the motivational dials of the human team machine to exact great performance. For the rest of us aspiring leaders, we have moments of [...]
by Michael Holland Yes, there are some things you gain when you become a manager, but you lose things as well. Make sure you’ve left these behind or they could be impacting your effectiveness: Being one of the “guys” – you can no longer expect to socialize to the same extent or maintain the close personal [...]
by Michael Holland You’ve heard the noise. The car next to you has a booming base radiating out through its closed windows. You can feel the sound in your car. Is it techno or is it classical or is that a pop beat? Are you moving to the beat? Or maybe you’re looking in disgust [...]
by Michael Holland A recent study showed that paying someone a compliment activates the same reward center in the brain as paying them cash. So what’s the cost/benefit factor of positive feedback? Potentially priceless. You can effectively influence behavior through regular positive feedback. It increases a person’s energy, motivation, makes people more receptive to new [...]
