I just spoke to a group about "Coaching Employees with Bad Attitudes" and it was a lot of fun. The thing that managers and leaders do not realize at times is when we do not confront or address employees with bad attitudes the "silence" is non-verbal permission to continue to behave that way. We must as leaders develop skills to confront issues and not people; therefore, we avoid the silence that..
4 Employee coaching tips for ride-a-long's with reps
Below are a few coaching tips to increase the learning opportunities when riding along with sales reps for observation:
An active learning strategy for employee growth and development
There are THOUSANDS of books out there on selling and customer service skills, use them as a part of your coaching or training initiatives for access to great and inexpensive information. Have your team read 1 book a week, and require them to apply one new thing they learned from the book everyday. This one new thing could be a specific skill or technique, or even just a new attitude or way of..
A specific method to coaching employees with bad attitudes
Why we should kill the typical employee performance review
Years ago I was walking through a client site, it was strangely quiet and all the manager's office doors were shut. I asked a manager, “What’s going on around here, why is everyone so quiet today?” He responded by explaining that all the managers were busy doing their yearly reviews of their staff, and that they were due to HR by the end of the day. While this may be a typical scenario, it left..
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Invest Everyday in Employee's Happiness and Effort to Improve Will Increase
I was just asked a question by a client in regard to starting their coaching program. I asked what she meant and she said I would have no idea because there are so many things my teams need to improve. It was at that moment I realized most people think coaching is about "only" improving things when in reality the way to truly motivate and develop areas of needed improvement is to leverage what..
Why coaching and mentoring adults and children are the same
Why your employees are lacking commitment
A recent research study shows that 1 in 4 employees have a strong sense of how their job contributes to their company's goals. With that said, 75% of your employees could be working under the impression that their job doesn't matter. That's 75% of your people who don't take an active and proactive role in what they do because they don't believe it affects the bottom line.EVERY position affects..