What sets businesses apart is not what they do, but how they do it. What would happen if a company started with a guide that defined their company culture and how their employees would act and how they would treat …
Wanted: One Caring Mentor
There is no doubt that successful business engagements begin with finding the perfect mentor – one caring mentor – who will educate, engage, and empower you to become all you can become. If you were to craft a mentor’s help …
Wanted: One Perfect Customer
You can sell expertise. You cannot sell trust. You must earn it and work hard to keep it. But once a management team has proven themselves to their customers, if they were to write a job description for the perfect …
Wanted: One Hard-Working Employee
If our managements teams were to craft a help wanted ad for a hard-working employee that advertised for attitude rather than skill, I am sure it would read: One hard-working employee who is results driven. One ambitious employee who will …
Wanted: One Good-Natured Colleague
Phil Jackson said, “The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team.” Management teams spend many hours crafting the perfect help wanted statements. What if we asked our employees to craft the …
Wanted: One Good Hearted Manager
It is said, “People leave managers, not companies.” Management teams spend many hours crafting the perfect help wanted statements. What if we asked our employees to craft our management team’s help wanted statement? I am sure it would read: Wanted: …
Team Building at its Finest
When I asked Rick Suarez, the President of MasTec Network Solutions his thought on that quote he said, “I think that this is the typical response from someone that is a backseat driver and yet doesn’t want to drive. Many …
The Value of Values
Hurricane Katrina was the eleventh named storm and the fifth hurricane of the 2005 Hurricane season. We received the call to head out, but Monty, my business partner and my husband, was managing a ten-million-dollar project at the time. He …
Leading Well
Mission can be defined as your organization’s purpose. Vision can be defined as your organization’s potential. Values are the principles by which your organization conducts its actions. Success is when you are consistently guided by a set of principles to …
Servant Leader
I was a servant leader long before I knew what a servant leader was. I fear its popularity will turn the term into trendy business speak and its meaning will become lost. Servant leadership begins and ends with attitude. I …