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fairness Tagged Articles
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5 Incredible Leadership Qualities
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| Leaders have to possess some inevitable equalities that makes them different from the ordinary folks. Leaders have to nurture certain qualities in order to enhance their leadership abilities. |
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5 Skills For Patching Broken Trust
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| The best way to patch broken trust is to reduce fear and restore employees' confidence in the reliability, integrity and fairness of leaders and the organization.
This article reviews five skills that serve leaders when diffusing employee distrust to mobilize productivity.
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How to repair trust after workforce reduction
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| Workforce reduction and the way it is handled either reinforce congruency or breaks it along with perceived integrity, reliability and fairness. When this happens, team work success and trust is compromised. This article offers two suggestions for successful entrepreneurs on how to repair workforce trust and explains the productivity cost of not doing so.
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How Downsizing Damages Trust
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| How you handle downsizing either reinforces corporate congruency or breaks it along with perceived integrity, reliability and fairness, which in turn damages trust. This article offers two suggestions on how to repair workforce trust and explains the productivity cost of not doing so. |
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We Are Responsible
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| We make the choice for fairness - or not. |
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The Vision
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| Companies should make everyone rich, not just the owners. |
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The Myth of Treating People Fairly and Equally
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| I'll just come right-out and say it. I believe that treating customers fairly and equally is a mistake. It's unprofitable. It belittles customers and employees. And it's unethical. There, I've said it... |
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The Key to Power
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| Regain power over your own destiny. |
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C-Level Selling: Are You a Tiger, a Phil or Struggle to Make the Cut
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| C-Level Selling and professional golf have a lot in common, but there is no money for second or low place. |
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Sales Peoples' Biggest Weakness – C-Level Selling
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| If you want overachieving salespeople they must know how to and be comfortable C-Level Selling. Most sales people deliver mediocre results because they lack this skill set. Learn how to put this missing major element into your salespeople.
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Spend Analysis versus Spend Intelligence: More Than a Semantical Difference
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| I believe the phrase "spend intelligence" to be misleading. To me, it sounds like a new take or sub-segment of business intelligence software applications which offer analytics and dashboard capabilities and sit on top of existing systems of record. The problem is that spend visibility and analytics is much more complex, requiring data cleansing, rationalization, classification and other efforts which go far beyond what is needed to gain insight into basic HR, financials, IT and other internal information, which fall cleanly in to the BI camp. |
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Not Your Fault? Then Whose Fault Is It?
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| It's easy to blame anyone or everyone else when things go wrong - the truth is that we are all pretty much in control of our destiny - and fail to take responsibility for it |
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I Just Called to See How Things are Going
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| This is a sad story. Sad but true. It was a real conversation, ostensibly a sales conversation. This sales conversation, and many others just like it, are happening all over the world. I recount this sad sales conversation here in hope that we may all learn from it: |
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Motivating people -how do leaders do it?
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| Good leaders expand the horizons of what is possible through a stream of ideas. They make work worthwhile. They go beyond knowledge and skills and evaluate, counsel, and place people using a framework of values and critical-to-work behaviors. They ensure process improvements. Great leaders develop good leaders by investing their expertise and time in people. Such great leaders regenerate their organizations. They are truly regenerative leaders. |
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Its not fair!
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| As a leader or manager do you aspire to be fair?
If you do, stop!
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You didn’t say I’d be fired!
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| Do you get frustrated when something you say which is obvious gets misinterpreted? |
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Always isn’t every time
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| As a manager, do you and your employees have miscommunications? |
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Just the facts
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| Do any of your direct reports (or for that matter, anyone at all!) continually challenge you in an unproductive way? |
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My Door is Always Open
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| Do you ever commit to things which you possibly can’t achieve? |
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My employee seems to be sick on Fridays and Mondays
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| Do you have an employee who takes advantage of the system? |
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That person has a difficult personality
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| Does it irritate you when one of your employees, peers, or boss is very difficult? |
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Gen X, Gen Y, Gen whatever
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| Do you have opinions on someone based on their age? |
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The Facebook Revolution
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| Do you wonder what your employees are doing on their computer? |
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Not listening can be catastrophic
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| Do you feel your reports are not listening to you?! |
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Dealing with Morons
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| Do you ever think you’re working with people who don’t know what they’re doing?! |
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The $64,000 Question
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| Do your questions lead to solutions or more problems? |
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Dirt on the car
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| DO YOU STRUGGLE TO EFFECTIVELY MOTIVATE ANY DIRECT REPORTS? |
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Questions, Jeopardy Style
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| Do you find yourself stuck no matter what questions you ask yourself? |
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The questions which lead to nowhere
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| DO YOU FIND YOURSELF STUCK NO MATTER WHAT QUESTIONS YOU ASK YOURSELF? |
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Entrepreneur Development: What to Give Your Staff:
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| Leadership education is not simply a cookbook list of "how to's". |
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Spirituality in Business
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| A quiet revolution is currently taking place as CEO’s all over the world incorporate spiritual principles into their business practices. |
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Why I Left My Insurance Agent
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| I decided to switch because my new agent not only cared, but he helped me improve my existing coverage’s, which I was willing to do even if it meant paying a higher premium. (After all, why have insurance at all if it doesn’t protect us the way we want it to?) We connect with people for who they are |
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Smart Women Have Dreams Too!
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| What fuels you? What’s your dream moving forward into 2008? When you land on where your energy and passions are, you feel this incredible sense of being alive with possibilities. Everything seems possible. |
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Employees are your life blood. Don’t spring a leak.
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| Maximize employee longevity, productivity and loyalty |
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Eight Essential Qualities of Passionate, Powerful and Proven Leaders, According To Your Strategic Thinking Business Coach
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| The term leader is used and dare I say misused quite often in our society today. Leaders are mentioned in the context of community; family; business; church, local, state and federal government; an organization; or some other institution or group. But how many of those mentioned as leaders really possess the essential qualities of a passionate, powerful and proven leader?
In order to determine the answer to that question, Your Strategic Thinking Business Coach believes one needs to define the term leader by listing the attributes or qualities necessary to earn the title of leader. Here is a list of eight essential qualities that I believe define a passionate, powerful and proven leader. |
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What have I learned in 6 months of management? Part 1
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| 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. |
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What have I learned in 6 months of management? Part 2
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| 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. |
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What have I learned in 6 months of management? Part 3
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| 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. |
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What have I learned in 6 months of management? Part 4
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| 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. |
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The loud woman at Starbucks
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| Do you find any of your employees irritating? |
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Managing techies
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| Do you need to come from a technical background to manage technical people? |
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Motivation with consequences
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| How do you motivate someone to do something they don’t want to do? |
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Jumping to Conclusions
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| As managers and leaders, how do we put aside our beliefs and experiences when we’re listening? |
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PR FollowUp Secrets
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| You’ve found your story, you’ve written a release, you’ve sent it to the appropriate media contacts and now you’re ready to follow up with the media. Welcome to the minefield. |
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EMBODYING THE VALUES
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| CARRY OUT A PERSONAL AUDIT:To identify your most important values , you need to carry out a personal audit.It means that you have to take stock of what type of world you want to live in, what will induce meaning and purpose in life. Once you have found your most important values, you need to pursue and embody them in your life.The exercise which follows will help in practising your values. |
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Managing Change - Get it Right
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| Managing change in organisations is a challenging, process driven exercise, unless you have been courageous enough as an organisation, to be enlightened and multi-inclusive in decision making. |
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Why I always Keep my Promises
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| It's a small thing, but it is important. In your business, forgetting little things promised causes erosion of trust and belief in you. And ultimately, those little things add up to a lot for your people. And that affects you and ultimately,
your business success. |
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Top Ten Tactics for Team Building Success
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| Bosses who lead the best businesses. realize early on that they cannot run their business alone. As their business grows, it just becomes unmanageable. Then, trying to lead it alone, it will either kill them or, slowly but surely, they will fail. Time to call for help and get your team building off the ground! |
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4.3 Informal labour markets: Working Out of Poverty
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| A strategy for improving governance |
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4.2 Rights at work and development: Working Out of Poverty
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| A successful strategy for strengthening the governance of labour markets
must recognize that they are different from other markets because they
concern people. We all live in societies in which social status and self-esteem
are strongly tied to both occupation and income. |
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