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National Cleaning Week
National Cleaning Week Isn’t it ironic? We start national cleaning week….and based on our current health crisis, there is no time like the present to break out the cleaning supplies. Speaking of, let’s talk about how we’re feeling during our second week of being...
Stress Tip – Start a Tough Conversation with Your Observations
How to have a tough conversation. You know in order to have a successful conversation with someone, you must plan it out. Now, it’s time to start talking – what do you do? Since you have done so much thinking and have planned for the conversation, it is easy to dive...
Tips for Having Tough Conversations
Follow my blog with Bloglovin Tough Conversations As a manager of any sort, sooner or later you are going to need to have a tough conversation with one of your employees. Maybe a person was late to work, and it is impacting service. Or, maybe some staff aren’t...
Being Present for Remote Employees
In today’s world, the likelihood that you will manage offsite or remote employees is very high. While building the culture you want, it is important to help them feel part of the team even though they may sit several hundred miles away from you. Here are a...
Your First 90 Days as a Manager
Congratulations! You got the big job promotion – you are no longer one of the line workers, you are now part of management! Everything you have done in your career to this point has been to achieve this goal. Now what? All the staff has eyes on you and are...
How do you treat your vendors?
In this site I normally focus on the interaction between the leader (manager) and the staff. However, there is another component that I want to focus on today. As a leader, we interact with several different people – staff, other executives, peers, and outside...