You can spend years building a company culture that includes hard work, rewards, flexibility, and fun company and team building events, but unfortunately, one bad attitude can bring down everything you have worked so hard to for. One bad attitude has a trickle-down effect for your team, and decreases productivity, creates unhappy co-workers, and decreases […]
Read MoreWe’ve all heard these sayings: the bad apple, the weakest link in the chain, the black sheep in the family. Do these simple phrases define a person and give no room for improvement? When dealing with a member of your team who is not measuring up to your or your team’s standards, what can you […]
Read MoreWith the business world moving from office to home, more people are now trying to figure out how to balance work life from home life while being in the same place. When I first heard that we were moving to an all remote workforce due to the pandemic, I was ecstatic: no more waking up […]
Read MoreYou can’t always get what you want. I learned this life lesson as a child, partly from my parents and partly from The Rolling Stones. It holds true today, especially as we venture through this crazy year. I want to go to Disney. I want to see my friends and my family. I want to […]
Read MoreNo matter how great the workplace, how great the coworkers, it’s a natural part of work-life for people to move on. Whether they upgraded positions, decided to do something new, or just needed a change, people leave. And sometimes they leave people behind. I’ve left places before, left colleagues and work friends and family. It’s […]
Read MoreI recently returned home from a three-week family road trip. This was mostly a vacation but not entirely. Since I have been working from home since March, working from the road was fairly feasible. I coordinated to work about one third to one half time and take the appropriate amount of PTO to cover the […]
Read MoreInsights are often born out of frustration. I routinely urge my colleagues to pay attention to those moments of repetitive frustration and annoyance and use them to identify opportunities for improvement. Not all are actionable, but I find that most are, and the solutions can be simple. I’ve recently felt a growing disdain for the […]
Read MoreI don’t have razor-sharp technical skills. I’m not the guy for writing dynamometer programs, developing analytics logic and dashboards or creating visually engaging communications. I’m kept around to strategize and make decisions. I’ve always liked to solve problems; in fact, I have an often-annoying tendency to seek and point them out. Presently few of us […]
Read MoreYou’re essential, and you’re out there, open, doing the work – or – you can work from a computer, which in this day and age means you can probably work anywhere. I’m the latter. I’m remote, my team is remote, and we carry on our roles as best we can (and sometimes better) from a […]
Read MoreSunlight and a warm breeze flowed leisurely through the open bay doors of Hometown Motors’ service department on the second Monday of June. Wafting in on the breeze was the distinct aroma of bratwurst and burgers earning their stripes on the grill just outside the rear door. Combined with the hint of grilling onion, the […]
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