Who Gets Promoted to Lead Humans
The sizable majority of business leaders are neither evil nor stupid. Given that, it is worth considering why, in one important regard, many business leaders continue to make foolish decisions. When you make the following statement to a group of business leaders, …
What Bucket Are You In?
If you are in a high title position, it is likely that you should be more Shaq-like. What the heck is Shaq-like? Watch this video. I am well aware that you are not a hall-of-fame athlete – and it’s likely no one …
What Every New Manager Needs to Know
Being asked to lead a team of people as a new manager means taking on accountability for both the production of the team as well as the individual performance of each team member. Some people step into a leadership role naively self-confident …
How to Manage Remote Employees
Many business leaders today are facing a new challenge: how to effectively supervise and lead employees who are working from remote locations. Truth be told, this has been a vexing challenge for years, but now the number of supervisors facing this challenge …
The Magic Employee Feedback Ratio
Although providing employee feedback and correction is an important aspect of most supervisory relationships, neither leadership nor teaching is the art of criticism. With children, friends, or employees, feedback is most effective at a ratio of two positive comments for each that …
Performance Reviews: 3 Orientations to Know About
Today we feature a topic on which MindSet has frequently been asked to consult: the dreaded evaluation and performance reviews. We can go fairly deep on this topic, but for this posting, let’s make this evaluation thing really, really simple. What Isn’t …
Talk to Your Team About Poor Performers [Video]
“Praise in Public, Criticize in Private.” This is a great leadership maxim – but in the 21st century it needs one small tweak, especially when it comes to poor performers. In this video, Dr. Hoogeveen explains what that tweak is. Transcript: …
One Management Tip You Should NOT Follow [Video]
Managers from the 1950s got certain things about leadership right, but they got this one piece oh so wrong. For more on how successful leaders operate in the 21st century read how coaching and parenting are starting to go hand-in-hand. And, watch …
6 Causes of Corporate Management Stupidity
When it comes to leading humans, companies and corporate management can do some stupid things. I don’t mean arguably wrong decisions – no, I mean flat-out stupid things. A true example: an employee takes a three day leave to attend to her …
Bad Employees: Recognizing Zombies and Cowards
MindSet Leadership Principle #4 of 7: Good staff have a right to work with good staff, not bad employees. Yep – we believe this to be a commitment that should be made to every employee – and it is a commitment that …
