Monthly Archives: December 2014

Happy New Year!

As the clock ticks down toward midnight tonight, the crew at Designing Leaders wants to wish you, your family, and your employees a very happy and prosperous new year. Now, go to a party!

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Feeding the Feedback Monster

Employees in class

Your employees need to know how they’re doing — hopefully, that is not a new idea to you. You want them to keep doing the good stuff and stop doing the bad, but they need to know which is which, and it is not always obvious to them. Even when it IS obvious, sometimes they […]

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Enjoy the Day

With Christmas on a Thursday this year, hopefully you and your employees are taking Friday off, too. While Christmas may not be as big here as in the Western world, for many people it is still an important time to be spent with family, or maybe just recharging their batteries for next year. In any […]

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Seriously?

Retaining employees

As much as we want people to read this, reading a business blog on Christmas Eve is not everybody’s idea of enjoying the holiday spirit. If you do not have stuff that really has to be done today, then even if you don’t celebrate Christmas itself, give yourself an opportunity to cut out early and […]

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Why Are Your People Working on Their Holiday?

Employees in class

The folks at Human Resources magazine reported last week on a study showing that 75% of Hong Kong workers expect to do work during the holidays. These are not people who have to go to work during the holidays, like police officers or hotel staff or people who are in the office rather than taking […]

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