Leaders! What Your Employees Really Want You To Know:
Blind-spots, false priorities, and limiting beliefs abound. Each of these statements earned a spot on this list with more than one story and/or personal [...]
3 Sure-Fire Strategies to Inspire Stellar Performance
He wrings his hands at the end of the month, end of the quarter, and at year-end hoping he squeaks by to deliver on [...]
9 Time Tested Employee Engagement Ideas That Even Work For Millennials
According to Gallup, only 29 percent of Millennials are engaged at work (emotionally and behaviorally connected to their job and company), which is why about 60 percent of Millennials say they [...]
What Are Your First 100 Days Going to be Like?
Just like in the White House, there are many business people across the country currently in some form of transition in their careers. If [...]
Leadership Workforce Development for SC Manufacturers
Insights from Dave Baker and the Palmetto Leadership Center Mollee D. Harper Monday, May 1st, 2017 South Carolina CEO sat down with Dave Baker, [...]
Leadership Obsolescence: Running Close Behind Greed and Corruption!
Leadership obsolescence is real, as we see in the wake of the Wells Fargo corruption scandal. As leaders, we must be reminded of the responsibility we share to [...]
The Manufacturing Bull-Ride
Just a few weeks before, I had made a call to inquire about riding a bull somewhere on a Saturday afternoon for my 40th [...]
Are You Having Fun Yet?
Tim Duncan recently announced his retirement from the San Antonio Spurs after a remarkable career as a superstar forward in the NBA. It was reported, [...]
Fight-Ending Techniques to Engage Your Workforce
It is a fight, an all-out, knock-down, drag-out brawl. U.S. workforce engagement levels of just more than 32% (Gallup, 2016), mean that roughly 7 [...]
Tube Steak Blindness
Scene: Organization-wide meeting. Celebrating success. 350+ in attendance. Site leader introduces new division president in attendance, “...now Cindy will be feeding you all tube [...]