Now that you have your goals for the year, the achievement battle is joined. Most goals require one of three behaviors: a) doing...

Our minds were wonderfully designed to allow us to stay alive and progress at the same time. Our limbic brain contains our subconscious...

I am looking forward to getting even with several people this week. They deserve what I have coming for them. I can’t wait to see the...

What happened is the Law of Forced Efficiency met the Law of Prior Planning. The result was a stretching of my time management skills and...

As a consultant, I am really just staff for hire. My work is dependent on my ability to be a “subject expert” in people skills. So I am...

That happened to me last week and illustrated the challenge of lean thinking. The more future steps and quality checks you have in a...

Paul Miller, a UNC quarterback and business man once described discipline as “remembering what you want.” That fits with my view that...

How do you know? When a company has a clear vision of where it’s going and consistent leadership that inspires people to want to follow...

While working with a client on raising employee engagement recently, I encountered the following trend: Out of 250 days of work,...

Gallup’s survey question #11 states, “Within the last six months, someone at work has talked to me about my progress.” At first glance...

How would someone describe your act? These questions came to me after discussing some clients with a colleague. He is a successful...

Our team won the low gross prize with 16 birdies and two pars. We also won low net (the ringer team had  a scratch golfer, yet got more...

Email is such a part of our society now. Time management workshops spend time on how not let emails ruin your productivity. Texting is...

Wishing you a Thumbs Up Day! Could you show up for work for a week and be totally useless? According the latest Gallop Survey of the...

Of our 200 million workers, 75 million are estimated to be supervisors. Since only 30% of workers love their job, most of the supervisors...

Times have changed. Breakfast is rarely a family event and eating something to settle the caffeine beverage is more the norm. We seem to...

1)      Affirmations – A vision needs to be spoken into existence every day. One way to give life to your vision is to write it down...

Here are four ideas I share in time management workshops that get nods from everyone. 1)      Use your phone timer to set up 60- 90...

Employee engagement is raised whenever you encourage employee development and/or when you let people know their opinion matters. A great...

After staring at open files next to a full filing cabinet for months, I finally screwed up my resolve to tackle this messy monster. In...