Recognizing The Value Of Vulnerability In Leadership Roles
When managers enter into leadership roles, they want to show strength. A trait that can be overlooked by strong leaders is vulnerability.
Performance Evaluation – Improving Your Process
Evaluating staff is crucial for setting standards and improving the organization. When a performance evaluation is carried out properly, those involved see justice served when a superstar is recognized, and the underperformer corrected.
Tips for Conducting a Phone Interview
Phone interviews can be a great method to get knowledge about a candidate before making a decision to get them in for an interview in person.
Pat Mastelotto on Listening
As a rock musician, I don’t read music. I play by intuition. That is, I listen and react. That’s why I play better when I listen.
How to Give a Colleague Feedback on Presentation
Feedback helps speakers understand what strengths they have and any areas of improvement needed. One of the best ways to grow your presentation skills is doing dry runs of your speech or workshop in front of an audience of colleagues. So when it’s your turn to observe, the act of giving feedback might feel awkward […]
Why Strong Leaders Make Great Storytellers
Strong leaders are understanding but assertive, patient while being persistent, and open-minded enough to accept new ideas while focused enough to accomplish finite goals. Strong leaders are compelling, humble, problem solvers with great listening skills. One trait that might be overlooked as a leadership quality is the skill to tell a story. Strong leaders are […]
Good Intentions
Three Steps to Welcome Change I looked at my list of things to change in 2018 and realized that less than half of the items on the list had been crossed off. This was supposed to be the year I made big changes. This was supposed to be the year to add more greens into […]
Bullying and Microaggressions in the Workplace
Workplace bullying and microaggressions are serious issues that can significantly impact employees’ well-being and productivity. Bullying involves repeated, harmful mistreatment of individuals, characterized by threatening, humiliating, or intimidating behavior, work interference or sabotage, and verbal abuse. Addressing these behaviors is essential for creating a healthy, respectful, and inclusive work environment. Today we are going to […]
How Can You Be More Assertive?
During an Improving Communications workshop, I asked a question that immediately had hands flying up from participants in the room: “How many of you have ever wanted to be more assertive in the workplace but didn’t know how?” It became very clear that assertiveness is a skill many people want to master. Before anything else […]