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Reinforce Candor to Build Trust: Transparency
Trust is the key ingredient missing in most organizations, particularly in these draconian times. The ability to build trust is most impacted by a leader’s habit of reinforcing candor – which means making people glad when they bring up inconsistencies in the leader’s actions. Most leaders punish people for surfacing difficult issues. In the process they extinguish trust and transparency, which further cripples worker motivation. Learn how to change your behaviors to allow consistent trust building interfaces with people.

Another Eldercare Issue: Hoarding
What is hoarding? What are the differences between clutter and hoarding? What are some reasons people hoard? These questions and more will be addressed in this article.
The Soft & Hard Sides of Discipline A Brief Look at Empathic Parenting
Have you ever had difficulty determining when “enough is enough” with your child? Or questioned when you should draw the line rather than be flexible and give in to his requests? Have you ever experienced the pain and confusion of knowing your child wants softness from you, but feared that this softness will somehow be “bad” for him/her in some way?
Entrepreneur's Coaching Center - Do you have what it takes?
In times of perpetual talk about job creation interesting facts come to lignt. For instance, did you know that most new jobs, in today's economy, come from young firms (3 -5) years old. Entrepreneurs are important if for now other reason than they are responsible for the creation of new job and more so than any other sector. Most think entrepreneurship is easy, think again. There are very certain and specific qualities that determine success. Learn three categories of skills, values and behaviors that characterize entrepreneurs.
Quality is Not an Action, It is A Habit
Small Business Owners, have you ever faced this situation? You develop or improve your systems for product or service delivery. Along with your new systems you establish quality standards and measures, and then you train your employees to make sure that everyone knows how to do what they need to do to get the job done to meet the new standards. You feel good about what you have put in place and so you go about looking at other areas to grow or improve only to find out later that the employees go right back to the old way of doing things as soon as they can. How frustrating is that?
Pricing One’s Products and Services
Setting one’s prices is a never-ending struggle for business owners. Buyer’s behaviors change nearly as fast as the weather. But, by better understanding how and why customers value and purchase products may take some of the pricing dilemma away.
Thoughts Become Things
The importance of positive thinking - as we change our thoughts and perceptions, we change our feelings, which changes our behavior, which changes our results
Effective Managers Understand Psychology
Novice managers often struggle to get the best out of their people because they labor under a one-dimensional view of what motivates their employees. In this article, Leslie Allan illustrates how a little psychology can return huge dividends.
Training Employees: Stop Wasting Your Money
You send your people on expensive training courses. Yet your business performance does not seem to improve. Your problem may lie in how you look at training. This article considers two popular views of how training works. Hold the outdated view and you will continue to lose money on training. Act on the enlightened view and your business and people will prosper. Which view do you hold?
Five Big Mistakes Hiring Managers Make and How to Avoid Them
The role of "Hiring Manager" is a key position. It is the gateway to the organization's future. If you are good at the selection and hiring process you will likely have a bright future. If you are not you likely will not. Read about Five Big Mistakes Hiring Managers Make And How You Can Avoid Them.
How to change a habit
If you were a driver, then you would relate easily to this regular occurrence that all drivers have come to experience at some point in time. Many times I have noticed to my amazement that whenever I am on the phone (hands-free, of course), while driving a frequented route, I end up reaching my destination without even realizing it. All I remember is that I got on the phone and now I am parked at the destination. It’s miraculous how your brain takes complete control of where you are going without any conscious effort from your side, provided it’s a frequented or regular route. I want you to re-read the last part of the sentence ‘provided it’s a frequented or regular route’. You know why this happens? If you can truly understand the ‘why’, you will end up having the answer to most of life’s mysteries.
Leader Interrupted
The concept of leadership within the protection of this book or the walls of any classroom is much different in execution. Too often, leaders understand the factors that promote effective leadership yet still fail to execute at critical opportunities. Why can leaders say (and even believe) the right things and then contradict the very same statement with their teams? Why does leadership theory get diluted in application on the job? How can we develop leaders to execute properly? These simple questions and the answers are in fact a revelation for most organizations.

Problems and Priorities
Every day, we are all faced with two important questions that greatly impact out productivity. These two questions are What are we doing? and How well are we doing it? Most of the emphasis in human behavior and personal development deals with the second question How well are we doing it? Very seldom do the success gurus focus on the primary element which is What are we doing?

Some Get It, Some Don't
Have you ever noticed that in the most mundane daily activities, there are some people who get it and some people who don't? When you are trying to merge onto the freeway during rush hour, you will notice that most people simply move up into the acceleration lane and politely and efficiently merge into the flow of traffic. They get it. On the other hand, there are those few lost souls who want to stop at the junction of the entrance ramp of the freeway and wait until traffic is completely clear. They don't get it.

Its not fair!
As a leader or manager do you aspire to be fair? If you do, stop!

You didn’t say I’d be fired!
Do you get frustrated when something you say which is obvious gets misinterpreted?
Always isn’t every time
As a manager, do you and your employees have miscommunications?
Just the facts
Do any of your direct reports (or for that matter, anyone at all!) continually challenge you in an unproductive way?
My Door is Always Open
Do you ever commit to things which you possibly can’t achieve?
My employee seems to be sick on Fridays and Mondays
Do you have an employee who takes advantage of the system?
That person has a difficult personality
Does it irritate you when one of your employees, peers, or boss is very difficult?
Gen X, Gen Y, Gen whatever
Do you have opinions on someone based on their age?
The Facebook Revolution
Do you wonder what your employees are doing on their computer?
Not listening can be catastrophic
Do you feel your reports are not listening to you?!
Dealing with Morons
Do you ever think you’re working with people who don’t know what they’re doing?!
The $64,000 Question
Do your questions lead to solutions or more problems?
Dirt on the car
DO YOU STRUGGLE TO EFFECTIVELY MOTIVATE ANY DIRECT REPORTS?
Questions, Jeopardy Style
Do you find yourself stuck no matter what questions you ask yourself?
The questions which lead to nowhere
DO YOU FIND YOURSELF STUCK NO MATTER WHAT QUESTIONS YOU ASK YOURSELF?
Entrepreneurs and Dancing with the Stars
Are you an entrepreneur or merely a business person with some ideas?
What's Fair or Not at Work?
Have you ever been treated unfairly at work? Were you ever asked to do more than your fair share? Have you gone above and beyond all reasonable requests, doing an exemplary job and getting no recognition? That is how Joelle saw her job. She worked harder than any of her peers, in fact she even picked up the boss' cleaning on her way into work one day. Not that he demanded it, it was just on the road to work and he was saying he needed a certain suit for an important meeting. Did he thank her? Well, he said, "Hey I appreciate that" and then went about his day. She was bummed. He could have at least given her some time off for having to make the stop. She told others she was sure that no matter how hard she worked she would never, ever get the praise that was due her.
Are Your Communication Strategies Really Engaging Employees?
Employee engagement is a shared understanding of the issues that affect the business, and that understanding leads to changes in employees' attitudes and behaviors... help employees truly understand the issues and make a meaningful connection between their jobs and those issues...
What have I learned in 6 months of management? Part 1
I asked one of the managers I was coaching what he learned in six months of re-focusing on management skills. Each response deserves its own soundbite, because they all incorporate skills managers should use to avoid traps and pitfalls.
What have I learned in 6 months of management? Part 2
I asked one of the managers I was coaching what he learned in six months of re-focusing on management skills. Each response deserves its own soundbite, because they all incorporate skills managers should use to avoid traps and pitfalls.
What have I learned in 6 months of management? Part 3
I asked one of the managers I was coaching what he learned in six months of re-focusing on management skills. Each response deserves its own soundbite, because they all incorporate skills managers should use to avoid traps and pitfalls.
What have I learned in 6 months of management? Part 4
I asked one of the managers I was coaching what he learned in six months of re-focusing on management skills. Each response deserves its own soundbite, because they all incorporate skills managers should use to avoid traps and pitfalls.
The loud woman at Starbucks
Do you find any of your employees irritating?
Managing techies
Do you need to come from a technical background to manage technical people?
Motivation with consequences
How do you motivate someone to do something they don’t want to do?
Jumping to Conclusions
As managers and leaders, how do we put aside our beliefs and experiences when we’re listening?

What Communication Habit(s) are you Addicted to?
Contrary to physical addiction, most communication habits fortunately can be eliminated by discovering their roots - and by mastering a new communication behavior.
Bullying - From The Playground To The Workplace
Workplace bullying is prevelent in the United States. It is evidence of an empathy discorder because bullying is aggressive behavior that is intended to cause humiliation, physical or emotion pain, or diminishment to another person or group of people. It results in the abusive treatment of others and almost always involves an imblance of power. This article discusses the steps to take and the consequences of exposing bullying in the workplace.

Civility in the Workplace---Is it Decreasing?
A major highlight of the second annual Civility in America poll, released by Weber Shandwick and Powell Tate in partnership with KRC Research, is the reported increase of incivility in the workplace. A whopping 43% surveyed experienced incivility at their place of work. Even more disturbing is the 38% who believe the workplace is becoming increasingly uncivil. What does this mean for human resources? Astronology investigates.

Other behavior Related Articles

A Blueprint for Managing your PR
As a manager, what you'll find you need is public relations activity that creates behavior change among your key outside audiences. Behavior change that leads directly to achieving your managerial objectives.
“Ten Most Significant Risks and Costs of Unethical Behavior in Business, According To Your Strategic Thinking Business Coach”
The business world has been shocked and rocked by major corporate scandals involving unethical behavior. The real “poster” companies of ethics violations include: Enron, Tyco International, WorldCom, Global Crossing and Adelphia. The risks and costs associated with these examples of unethical behavior are astronomical in dollars, but also extremely high in other non-quantified costs and risks. These other significant risks and costs from unethical behavior include:

Manage Your Salespeople by Working Smart, Negotiate Quotas
How do you get your salespeople to "buy-in" to keeping good records of what they do every day? Sit down one-on-one, and negotiate their annual quotas with them. Help them translate their annual quota into their individual daily behavior. For example, a $5 million annual quota might equal three New Dials, one New Appointment, two Futures, one Referral Received and two Customer Visits every day. Don't forget to have them either write in or phone in their daily behavior numbers to post on the community "behavior board" for all to see. Look for more unconventional management tips in a future Today's Sales Meeting Minute.

The Power of Recency and Frequency in Growing Your Small Business
The most powerful predictor of future behavior is past behavior. This article explains the predictive power of Recency and Frequency when marketing to your customers.
What Leaders Can Learn From Dog Obedience Training
It is interesting the similarities between managing the behavior of a dog and managing employee behavior. In this article we look at communication, correction, praise, structure, repetitive learning and pack behavior and how it applies to the workplace.
How to Predict Behavior Like Abraham Lincoln Did
Behavior can be predicted in terms of a person's interests, group identity, character, and unconscious needs. If you want to predict behavior, do what Lincoln did...

Get Inside Your Head: How Knowing Your Brain Can Make You a Better Leader
Find out what David Rock’s SCARF model can teach you about threats and rewards that govern our behavior and gain some strategies for regulating your own emotions and managing others’ behavior. Understanding how your brain works can give you a definite edge as a leader.

3 Ways to Recycle Conflict
Early identification of behavior patterns will help you maximize creativity and production while minimizing repeated behavior from co-workers.

The Freedom of Naked
As a parent of two boys, I have a perspective that does not include that of a father of little girls. And while the same behavior may be normal, I have no experience from which to make the same judgment. What is it about little boys and dancing naked? This supposedly common behavior that some may consider unspeakable is not limited to my own two little human examples, is it? There is something revealing about this behavior and the pun is definitely intended. This lack of restriction and confinement must be somewhat liberating to the normal single digit age human boy. The common after bath ritual must promote some feeling of euphoria that I have long forgotten but should probably try to remember.

Thoughts For Incentives
Incentives are one of the greatest challenges most sales organizations face. While many start with the age old adage that "incentives drive behavior," they still find it difficult achieving a plan that drives business. One of the core challenges is that many organizations do not clearly define the behavior that they are truly trying to drive. While it is easy enough to say you want your incentive plan to drive sales, sales are not a behavior, they are an outcome.

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