This article has been submitted by the team at Grapevine Evaluations. Becoming a manager is the culmination of years of hard work and dedication. It’s your time to prove why you deserve this promotion. You’re in the spotlight, and it’s a great deal of pressure. There are many opportunities for you to succeed, although there are just as many chances to fail. You can avoid … [Read more...]
9 Bad Habits to Avoid at Work in 2016
On this blog, we often talk about what you can do to improve employees' negative behaviors. However, today, we're going to make you the focus. Even the best leaders possess work habits that irritate their employees and coworkers, while making them less effective at both their jobs and their ability to lead others. What bad habits are holding you back? "Achieving success … [Read more...]
Create a “Pocket of Excellence” that Allows Employees to Thrive
For your employees, create an environment that enables them to be their very best. Shawn Murphy, culture change and leadership consultant and author of the book The Optimistic Workplace: Creating an Environment that Energizes Everyone, calls the ideal environment a "Pocket of Excellence" and offers these tips for creating a situation that allows your employees to thrive. … [Read more...]
Finding Your Bigness Balance: 7 Ways to Properly Set the Size of Your Goals
This is the time of year when we're all thinking about setting goals and making resolutions. The good news is that there are hundreds of books, websites and other resources that teach systems for setting goals. The better news is that most, if not all of them work, if you do the work needed to make them work. The bad news, however, is that all those resources don't tackle … [Read more...]
12 (Leadership) Days of Christmas
It may be my least favorite Christmas song (and I’m sorry if it is now stuck in your head), but a few years ago I created a series of 12 blog posts inspired by the song. In the song, 12 gifts are given, and in the series, I provide leaders with 12 gifts as well. While these gifts help you become a better leader, the best thing about them is that you can share them with your … [Read more...]
4 Daily Decisions That Will Change Your Life
We all make choices. Some are huge, like these: Whether to finish high school Whether to go to college Where to go to college What job(s) to take Whom to date/marry Where to live Whether or when to have children They change the trajectory of your life, and ultimately play a huge role in the person you become. However, I personally don't think the major … [Read more...]
6 Ways to Stay Calm When the Storm of Change Hits
By Jaimy Ford, business writer Change is inevitable. That's for sure. As a new leader, you can expect your fair share of change (upheaval even), and how you handle the turmoil early on can set the tone for the months, or years, ahead. Beverley Jones, MBA, JD, PCC, author of THINK LIKE AN ENTREPRENEUR, ACT LIKE A CEO: 50 Indispensable Tips to Help You Stay Afloat, Bounce … [Read more...]
Change Your Behaviors to Become a More Inspiring Leader in 2016
Habits can be a trap for people in leadership positions, whether they are in business, politics or another field. As leaders, they should provide a compelling vision that inspires those around them. Instead, many of them lapse into automatic and mindless thinking. And that can affect every decision they make—and the actions of the people who report to them. “Too often, we … [Read more...]
New Leaders: 5 Misconceptions that Undermine Your Success
By Keith Rollag, author of What to Do When You’re New: How to Be Comfortable, Confident and Successful in New Situations So you’ve been promoted and suddenly find yourself leading your friends, teammates and peers. How should you approach your new role? Over the past 20 years I’ve been studying the new leader experience, trying to understand what leads to new leader … [Read more...]
How to Give a Gift This Holiday Season
In Monday's post "The 5 Rules of Giving Gifts to Employees," we talked some about the do's and don'ts of choosing and giving gifts to employees. Today we are going to expand on that. While gifts of all kinds are given everyday, we are approaching a time of year when we spend more time thinking about the giving of gifts than at any other time of the year. I thought of that … [Read more...]