Dear Seeking Wisdom
The short essay below comes from an advice column written by a lady who goes by Dear Sugar – her real name is Cheryl Strayed. Dear Sugar received a letter from a reader (who used the name: Seeking Wisdom) asking Dear Sugar …
So You Have A Culture Code, Now What?
Most companies have a list of cultural values. The existence of such a listing is neither meaningful nor impressive unless the company can specify what it’s DOING with those values. A more current term for “values” is Culture Code – and it’s …
How Do You Listen?
Leaders do a lot of listening. We just often do it wrong. Jennifer Garvey Berger, the CEO of a London-based coaching and consulting company called Cultivating Leadership, has laid out a brilliant model for categorizing three types of listening. It is smart …
A Huge Deal: Crap Detection
In 1914, Professor John Alexander Smith addressed the first session of his two-year lecture course at Oxford as follows: Gentlemen, you are now about to embark on a course of studies that (will) form a noble adventure…Let me make this clear to …
Survey Data Shows Higher Employee Morale
In the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, MindSet offered a free survey to help organizations monitor employee morale during the COVID-19 crisis. The survey report has helped executives better navigate through what has been, for many, challenging times. With more than 30 …
Keep Hope Alive
There is a phrase first said by Jesse Jackson on July 19, 1988 at the Democratic National Convention. He was addressing the convention having lost a nomination battle to Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis. Although I have heard the phrase repeatedly over the …
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 …
How to Work From Home: 9 Tips for Employees
Due to the current circumstances, many US workers are facing the challenge of working from home for the first time. For life-long office workers, working from home will feel like a major shift, but with the right approach working from home can …
Leading Through Scary Times
Humans react well to unexpected good events. We don’t, however, react well to unexpected bad events. When such bad events occur, fear is the emotion that results. At low to moderate levels, fear can stimulate action; at higher levels it can be …
Sales Best Practices – Making it Simple
There are a LOT of books, blogs, and online training options that purport to help improve one’s ability to sell by focusing on sales best practices – and many of them are darn good. Many specify time-tested tactics and techniques that will …
