Reflections: 6 Nuggests I’ve learned

Each time I facilitate training, I learn from those that I am there to teach.  My head is filled with unexpected nuggets of information – often things that make me go “hmmmm”.  As we turn the page on summer and get ready for the fall, I decided I would use this week as an opportunity

Coaching Your Team

Coaching is a method supervisors use to recognize and/or develop their employees.  Many employees are hungry to be coached, yet many supervisors don’t make it a priority.  Having a meeting with an employee to correct behavior isn’t necessarily coaching.  Instead, adopt the idea that you can make your employees better when you invest in their

6 Phases of Not-so-Positive Feedback

My last web article presented 4 easy steps to giving positive feedback (if you want to be a superior supervisor).  I hope you have been recognizing the great work of your employees! BUT.  There is a flipside of positive feedback … not-so-positive feedback – a.k.a. constructive criticism or corrective. Part of your role as a

How to Give Positive Feedback in Only 4 Steps

Superior supervisors take time to recognize what their employees are doing well.  Part of your job as a supervisor is to develop your employees into great employees – without feedback this is quite difficult to do.  This week we will focus on giving positive feedback (return next week to learn how to give not-so-positive feedback).

Supervisors: 4 Techniques for Building Confidence on Your Team

When I am training a group of people, part of what I do is help people discover where they can improve.  This is a delicate task.  If it isn’t facilitated respectfully, I run the risk of creating a climate where people do not feel valued or safe to explore and take risks with their skills. 

3 Experts on Creativity

In my quest to read up on creativity in the workplace while writing this month’s articles, I found a few tidbits of information I thought would be great to share. What are the experts saying about creativity in the workplace? It is the responsibility of leadership. Wow!  Is this surprising to you? Reiter-Palmon (2011) wrote

12 Ways to Exercise Your Creative Mind

Do you consider yourself to be in possession of a creative mind?  Or do you consider yourself lacking creativity?  In either case, a creative mind needs to be exercised if one wants to be able to easily tap into it when needed.  It is like conditioning your body for a 20 mile bike ride –

3 Rules to Brainstorming

The topic for the June series is Creativity in the Workplace; something often discounted within organizations.  Why?  When companies are running lean, as many are right now, they want direct results.  The results of creativity are indirect; therefore, quantifying the benefits of creativity proves challenging.  Caution … underestimating the value of creativity can deprive your

2 Part Goal Setting

Hopefully after reading last week’s article you set a goal to create your To Do List each day before you left work or first thing when you arrived each morning.  If you didn’t, this week will be your chance to make writing a To Do List a daily goal.  (Of course you don’t have to