Posts Tagged ‘Balance’
3 Steps for Building a Strengths-Based Firm
The war for talent has been going on for quite a while, and your team is feeling the impact. Staff is overextended. You’re losing key team members to other firms and they need to be replaced. You know you want the best possible hire, someone who can quickly start contributing and who will hopefully stay…
Read More7 Tips for Developing a Personal Strategic Plan
Life is like a book. The phases you go through are the chapters that define who you become. Developing the chapters of your life can be a rewarding and exciting activity if you develop a plan and follow the process. Much like the strategic plan that you develop for your firm, a personal strategic plan…
Read MoreThe Search for Sustainable Employee Engagement
Firm leaders throughout the country are looking for ways to increase employee engagement and motivation. Often, they are frustrated when they hear reports that the only answer is increasing employee compensation. While compensation is undoubtedly important, I believe if we focus strictly on compensation we will miss some of the most important drivers of engagement…
Read MoreFinding Brilliance In Yourself – and others!
Have you ever come across one of those topics that you hear over and over from your friends, peers or in trade publications that just keeps bubbling to the top of conversations? I hear them all the time, but one in particular has been buzzing around in my circle of influence recently. The ability –…
Read MoreQuick Recovery After April 15
April 15 has passed and for many, burnout is alive and well. The long hours and intense deadlines have left you drained – physically and emotionally. While you may indeed be secretly wishing you could go bury yourself in your home for a month and sleep, the reality is that you may not feel you…
Read MoreWhat’s in Your Head Can Make, or Cost, You Millions
While I’ve long since given up my boyhood hopes of becoming a superhero, I continued to hold on to the notion that there was some special, magical “something” out there that allows us to have all the great things we want in life, and little or none of the bad stuff. Fortunately, to my surprise,…
Read MoreIs Meeting the Deadline, Meeting Your Client’s Expectations?
“Our installers will be there between 12 noon and 5 pm” We’ve all been there. Whether it’s hooking up a new cable or satellite provider package, getting appliances delivered and installed, or new furniture delivered, often these services come with a huge window of delivery time. And while this window may be convenient for the…
Read MoreA Winning Culture is an Intentional Culture
“People will typically be more enthusiastic where they feel a sense of belonging and see themselves as part of a community than they will in a workplace in which each person is left to his own devices” ― Alfie Kohn, Author Your firm’s culture is the essence of its being and the way it feels to work…
Read MoreFlexibility Blueprint That Works for the Organization (and the Individual!)
The perfect storm is upon us. Simply stated there is a talent war. Forces are coming together in a way we have never seen before. Some Baby Boomers believe this is similar to all the other talent wars they have seen, but research shows otherwise. 78 Million Baby Boomers retiring with less than 50 Million…
Read MoreWhy Do You Care Where I Work? Six Reasons to Go Virtual
Firms must move – and move now – to support virtual work environments. I’ll admit I’m biased. For fifteen years, I have run a completely virtual business. When not on the road speaking, teaching or consulting, each of our team members works from home in cities across the country. From our inception, the information assets…
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