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I remember talking to someone who is a supervisor at a local company. This person told me it was time to do employee evaluations, and that she was hesitant because she didn’t know how some people would react to their evaluations; obviously the bad ones. I asked her if she knew these people and she [...]
There are constant pressures all of us have to deal with. It seems like almost every day there’s something that we have to overcome in order to get through the day. Whereas we all have to work through different types of issues, there is one constant that is paramount; we must work hard to keep [...]
It’s hard to stay positive all the time. Life doesn’t always give us exactly what we want, and often that irritates us. When we get frustrated or irritated, we can do a few things. One, we can totally shut down; two, we can try to make things bad for whomever got on our nerve; three, [...]
Good management principles can help turn around bad situations. Teaching someone how to become a good manager if they wish to learn can be a rewarding experience. Trying to teach someone those same concepts when they don’t want to learn them can be frustrating and hard to overcome; most likely, you’re wasting your time. However, [...]
One of the difficulties anyone who’s any kind of manager faces is that your job depends on others to make you look good or bad. Your employees can make you look like a genius, even if the best thing that happened was that you inherited them. At the same time, just because someone is good [...]
I’ve had a photo shoot or two in my life, which means I’ve used the services of professional photographers. After a recent session I realized that something many people might not have paid attention to are the kind of skills photographers have that exhibit a type of leadership that might be hard to recognize, yet [...]
While reading another article, which resulted in this post on one of my other blogs, I was reminded of a story from some years ago when I used to go for sales training at a local company. One of the guys in the class was a salesman for his company, and he complained that he [...]
