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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

4 Ways to Tackle Evil Proscratination

Procrastination is an evil beast that zaps our energy and confidence.  But who doesn’t struggle with procrastination? No one I know.  Some people struggle more than others, but the reality is that from time to time we all find ourselves putting off complex tasks, avoiding the unpleasant ones, or letting ourselves become distracted by trivial

6 Questions: Energy and Productivity

When we listen to the natural cadence of our bodies and plan our activities accordingly, we are able to maximize the outcomes of our efforts.  Without knowing our energy cycle we find ourselves fighting to manage the simplest of tasks.  Answering the following questions will help in understanding your natural energy cycle so you can

3 Time Management Myths

Effective time management is a challenge for every human being.  Balancing the demands at work, as well as the demands outside of work, prove to be exhausting much of the time.  In the month of May, we will be focusing on this specific topic – time management; energy cycles and strategies for tackling procrastination, prioritization,

Different, but Same: 10 Reasons Generations Don’t Matter

When thinking about other generations have you had thoughts similar to these? They don’t know what work ethic is. They are stuck in another era. Haven’t they heard of putting in their time to climb the ladder? Tension between generations is expected because we are different.  Let’s take for example the defining events of generations.