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 …
How Husker Nation Utilizes Great Leadership
A new football coach has been hired at the University of Nebraska – big news in these parts. (For those readers who reside outside Nebraska or don’t follow the Huskers, Coach Bo Pelini was recently fired after seven seasons at the helm …
Easing Employee Anxiety and Fears in the Workplace
Barbara Soderlin of the Omaha World Herald wrote a fitting story for the popular Halloween holiday. It focuses on work-related fears and employee anxiety that haunt adults year-round. MindSet was asked to comment on the national survey data that is featured in …
MindSet Survey Trends to Be Aware of
We’ve been using our MindSet Survey with multiple clients and we have seen fascinating trend data – and some of it has big implications for leadership. Our uses 49 carefully crafted questions, supplemented by client specific queries, to provide cultural health indicators for …
How Mindfulness Helps Your Business
I have noted a characteristic in many of the more creative people I know: mindfulness. These individuals have a propensity to see what most miss. They take note of things, perhaps small, but to them meaningful that most of us – absorbed …
Understanding Better Leadership Practices
An acquaintance recently came to me on the pretext of asking for advice. After a description of what can be boiled down to an unhealthy work culture, she finally paused to ask, “So, Kim, what would you do?” Feeling flattered that she …
Get Serious when Recruiting Talent
If a terrific 16 year old power forward, who lives in the most rural area of Mississippi, invited one of the ten most renowned college basketball coaches in the country to visit his family in their home on Christmas Eve, what do …
Getting to the Essence of Customer Satisfaction
Many companies that previously relied on detailed questionnaires to measure customer satisfaction learned from a guy named Fred Reichheld (who made his brilliant observation in 2003) that they really need only ask a single question to measure what they want to measure: …
Employee Growth: Pushing Past Resistance
MindSet encourages leaders to use their influence (and power!) to help employee growth in such a manner as to foster greater success both at work and in life. A lofty goal – one often not easily achieved. To promote employee growth, one …
Employee Performance: Creating A Winning Combination
Recently a Chick-fil-A opened up in my hometown of Bellevue – and I have quickly become a Raving Fan. Yes, the chicken sandwich is good – but it is not the food that has me so impressed. It is the remarkable employee performance …
