Get Inputs From Your People
We have said before that you should try to hold onto your people during the pandemic. Why does this matter? In part, because their corporate knowledge is vakuable, and you don’t want to lose that by sending them out the door. So if you’re going to keep them, you might as well use that knowledge. […]
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- Jun, 22, 2020
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Jun, 22, 2020
Relationships For Your Economic Recovery
As you move from crisis to recovery, you are not going to have time to rebuild relationships. If you let your networks fade now, someone else is liable to swoop in and take your place. You need to be staying connected to people outside your company. Maintain your links to your customers. Even if they aren’t buying, […]
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- Jun, 08, 2020
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Let’s Focus On The Work
A few years ago we suggested you should try to keep political discussions out of the workplace. Our view was that simply telling people not to have such discussions might not work, so instead, you should focus on leading by example and also perhaps steering conversations into another direction before they get out of hand. […]
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- Aug, 26, 2019
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Positive Language Can Help
Words matter; that’s why we have them. So it’s safe to assume that negative words carry a negative message, and positive words carry a positive one. It’s silly to ever think your words don’t matter. Language exists to convey ideas and feelings, and so the words you choose will in fact do that. If you […]
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- Aug, 15, 2019
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Opinions Don’t Help
If you want to help others to take you seriously and would like to move a discussion forward rather than getting bogged down in an endless loop of talking, consider removing the words “in my opinion” from your vocabulary. Phrases like “in my opinion,” or “I think” or “I believe,” suggest a statement that is […]
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- Jul, 25, 2019
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