Good Management Skills: Nature or Nurture?
Earlier this year, Gallup issued a fascinating study that looked at why great managers are so rare. It concluded that while one of the most important decisions a company can […]
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An Execution Framework for Achieving Ambitious Goals
While annual planning and performance reviews are very structured processes, most organizations don’t have structured models for managing execution and goal achievement between plan and review. How are your planned […]
The Truth About What Motivates Millennials at Work
Millennials are the first generation in history to be blessed with instantly-accessible information. An unprecedented one third of those aged 20 to 29 have graduated with a bachelor’s degree. Reading […]
Want to Be More Successful? Set Goals.
People with goals achieve more and are more successful — a lot more successful — than peers without them, whether they’re scientists, students, or corporate execs. Organizations whose employees are […]
Change Agents: Know Thy Audience
Change agents and their ideas are the life force of organizations. Innovation of all kinds is essential for organizations to grow and thrive; in fact, organizations that can more easily […]
4 Ways to Increase Your Goal Achievement
The formula for achieving goals is straightforward: apply team, time and budget to the specific work needed to reach the right results. Very successful people achieve goals faster and with […]
Achieve Your Leadership Aspirations
Ask most executives and managers if they are great leaders and you’ll hear, “No, but I have every intention of becoming one!” Aligning time, skills and effort to the intention […]
Use OKRs To Achieve Bold Goals
Objectives and Key Results or OKRs have helped hyper-growth Internet companies like Google achieve phenomenal success. They combine ambitious, qualitative goals and quantitative success measures with weekly execution and accountability […]
Learn to Love Your Customers
On its face, this is a ridiculously high standard, but in practice it’s the most rewarding and resilient way to build a business. Working with and for customers that love […]
5 Ways to Manage Stress on the Job
Work can push all our stress buttons: the need to achieve, fear of failing, reliance on others for our own success, overload, self-doubt and more. Ironically, how we respond to […]
Invest Your Intelligence Where It Matters
In a particularly creative working session with a young product designer, we arrived at what seemed like a terrific idea with a novel implementation. We’d had one of those brainstorms […]
4 Steps to Less Work Stress
Work stresses people out — fear of failing, pressure to achieve, having to reply on others for our own success, overload, self-doubt and more… In fact, one million Americans call […]
Goal Alignment: Job One for Managers
Two days before Yolanda’s performance review, she sent a 26-page PowerPoint deck intended to summarize her accomplishments for the year. She’d clearly spent hours on the deck, perhaps more than […]
The Difference Between Dreamers and Doers
In many ways, setting goals is similar to dreaming of success – goals are desired outcomes. [easy-tweet tweet=”Goals are desired outcomes” user=”@workboardinc” hashtags=”#goals “]But achieving goals (and with them, success) […]
Where Your Time Goes, So Goes Your Impact
Stephanie Leffler, the dynamic, mission-driven CEO of CrowdSource, carefully controls where her time goes. For years, she’s kept a thorough action item list against her goals and priorities and keeps […]
Help Managers Be More Effective Leaders
There is a tremendous engagement and execution gap in companies today. According toGallup, only 13% of employees are actively engaged in their work ; 60% of employees don’t understand their […]
The 5 Dynamics of Low Performing Teams
High performing teams seem to generate their own energy and elevate everyone on the team to their full potential. Despite achieving more, work on these teams seems less taxing, the […]
Dump Corporate Jargon For More Impact
Long before texting brought us LOL, BTW, CU, and TTYL, organizations used acronyms as communication short cuts. Unlike the text substitutes for benign greetings, laughs and sign offs, corporate acronyms […]
The Five Things Great Bosses Do
Study after study has shown that when you’re great at your job it turns into high employee engagement, which in turn leads to higher profits, better customer service, and happier […]
5 Steps to Stellar Year-End Reviews
It’s mid-year review time and if you’re like many people, you haven’t thought about goals in 5.5 months. Not a great moment for manager or team member, but it’s a […]
Is Your Communication Style A Drag On Your Team’s Productivity?
Our verbal and listening habits have a direct effect on our productivity and our professional outcomes. These engagement habits can lead to wasteful debates over false choices and choke off […]
3 Tips For Managers To Achieve Business Goals
It’s a few weeks into a new quarter of a new year, so now is a great time to self-assess accomplishments on last quarter’s goals and double down for great […]
Don’t Just Assess Your Team’s Performance, Cultivate It!
It’s a good time to consider our roles as managers in helping people achieve their potential. In addition to assessing what they’ve done, take the time to consider what you’ve […]
Use Your Time Wisely — You Don’t Have As Much Of It As You Think!
As management guru Peter Drucker once said, “Time is the scarcest resource, and unless it is managed, nothing else can be managed.” Time is the greatest lever we have to achieve […]
How to Embrace Failure and Make It Work In Your Favor
We all know failure isn’t the end of the world, but it is not easy to embrace. Without clear thinking, fear of failure and failure itself can undermine our leadership […]
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