December 2024
“People Don’t Quit Their Job, They
Quit Their Boss”
A Gallup poll found that 52% of people leaving their job said their manager could have done something to keep them from leaving. In this month’s $10,000 Leadership Lesson™, Glenn shows you how a simple five minute conversation could keep you from losing your best employee.
November 2024
How to Keep Your Perfectionist Tendencies from Running Off Good Employees
Did you know the FDA allows 60 insect pieces in every 100 grams of chocolate you eat? Why? Because perfection isn’t attainable. If you’ve ever been accused of being a perfectionist, you’ll not only drive your employees crazy, you’ll also do the same to your family and yourself. In this month’s $10,000 Leadership Lesson, Glenn shows how to keep that from happening to you.
October 2024
Helping People Become Leaders When They Don’t See Themselves as Leadership Material
What do you do when you see leadership potential in someone, but they don’t see it in themselves? Or when you need someone in your company to step up, but you don’t see anyone with leadership potential? In this month’s $10,000 Leadership Lesson, Glenn shows you exactly what to do, and how to do it.
September 2024
Delegate Your Way to Success!
This program delves into the art of effective delegation, providing practical strategies for leaders to empower team members, optimize productivity, and achieve organizational goals. Shepard’s expertise guides managers through the process. By mastering these techniques, managers can focus on higher-level responsibilities and drive their teams toward success.
August 2024
Why Gen Z Has Such an Entitlement Mentality – and How to Handle It
Have you ever noticed how the entitlement mentality keeps increasing? People think the world owes them more and more and more, even though they haven’t done anything to earn it. In this month’s leadership lesson, Glenn explains why it’s at epidemic levels with Gen Z (Hint: It’s not their fault) and what to do about
it.
July 2024
How to Correct “Snowflakes” without Them Having a Meltdown
Have you ever had employees who fall apart at even the slightest
constructive criticism? Your job as a leader is to help people grow. But people can’t grow unless they’re willing to learn from their mistakes. In this month’s program, we look at how to give constructive criticism to people without demoralizing them.
June 2024
How to Help Employees with Low Self Esteem
Have you ever had an employee who’s good at what they do, but doesn’t see it because they have such low self-esteem? In this program, we’ll look at how you can use your influence to help lift employees who don’t see in themselves what you see in them.
May 2024
Five of the Worst Reasons to Fire People – and Ten of the Most Justifiable
Firing people is always a pain. But what makes it ever more miserable is when you fire somebody who darn well deserved to be fired, and then you get labeled as the bad guy.
April 2024
Three Things You Should Never Do When You’re First Promoted into Management
Have you ever promoted someone who had difficulty transitioning from team member to supervisor? In this month’s leadership lesson, we look at how to help people avoid three deadly pitfalls before they move into management for the first time.
March 2024
How to Get Yourself Out of a Rut
Have you ever felt like you were in a rut and didn’t know how to get out? Or felt like a hamster in a wheel running as fast as you can but getting nowhere? You’d be shocked at how many other people in your life – including your employees – feel the same way. In this month’s leadership lesson, Glenn shows you three surprisingly simple and fairly easy ways to get yourself out – or help others get out.
February 2024
“Marcia, Marcia, Marcia” – How the Jan Brady Syndrome Affects Your Employees More than You Know, and What to Do About It
Are you old enough to remember what “Marcia, Marcia, Marcia” meant? It was the battle cry of the middle daughter on The Brady Bunch. She was such a poster child for Middle Child Syndrome that psychologists sometimes call it the “Jan Brady Syndrome”. In this program, we look at how managers sometimes make the mistake of spending so much time on problem employees and super stars that they neglect everyone in the middle.
January 2024
The Difference between Optimism and “Toxic Positivity”
Being overly positive doesn’t make you a better leader. To the contrary, people start to distrust you when they know you’re candy-coating things. One study found that employees who felt like their company was honest with them about challenges the company was facing were 10 times more likely to recommend the company as a good place to work. In this program, Glenn explains the difference between being optimistic, and what psychologists call “Toxic Positivity”.
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