Name: Bob Mason
Date registered: April 15, 2013
URL: http://www.planleadexcel.com
Feb 19 2014
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In the last installment of Dealing With Problem Employees we discussed the fire starter; that person who seems to cause a lot of problems. The opposite is the fire extinguisher. This person tends to stamp out enthusiasm in others and can suck the life out of your company. If you remember the children’s …
Feb 12 2014
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Dealing with problem employees means knowing who those problem employees are. With the fire starter, this can be difficult. The fire starter is the person in your organization who spreads discontent. Their efforts may not be overt and sometimes this person can be hard to find. Search them out though, as they are …
Feb 05 2014
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Do you have one of those employees who always has a contrary view? You know, the one who is always arguing. For this installment of dealing with problem employees, let’s take a minute to deal with the arguer. The arguer is the person who always disagrees or presents an opposing view point. Is …
Feb 03 2014
A recent question got me thinking again about the first step in selecting future leaders: recognizing the raw potential. The questioner wanted some short thoughts on what to look for in potential new leaders. I generally dislike communicating in sound bites because they tend to provide just enough information to cause trouble. But, …
Jan 31 2014
Effective leadership relies on trust. A successful leader must develop the trust of workers, customers, and partners. Trust and leadership are inseparable. The PR firm Edelman has released the 2014 Trust Barometer which has some valuable information for leaders. The barometer looks at various trust issues from more than 33,000 people in 27 …
Jan 31 2014
Please take a minute to look at “7 Essential Qualities of Great Leaders” by Ritika Trikha at CareerBliss.com. Yes, I’m quoted, but it would be a good article anyway. These are good tips for beginning leaders and great reminders for those of us who have been at it for awhile.
Jan 29 2014
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I sometimes wonder what the next two or three generations will be like. The question comes to me when I look at the Millennial Generation which seems, in many ways to be a combination of all the four generations that preceded them. The Millennial Generation, born 1980 – 2000, is the largest in …
Jan 24 2014
It was a warm evening in Kuwait City. I was standing on a street corner talking to a local gentleman with whom I was working. As we chatted a young teen slowly cruised by with music blaring from his car stereo. After he passed and the noise level returned to normal we resumed …
Jan 22 2014
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A common grievance during the Boomer’s earlier years was “No one understands us.” That might have been at least partly true then, but the generation that can really lay claim to that lament is Generation X, born between 1964 and 1980. Like the Silent Generation, Xers are caught between two very large and …
Jan 17 2014
Two different people in two totally different industries have contacted me in the last week to discuss employee surveys. In one case the company sent what they professed to be an anonymous opinion survey but the employees quickly discovered that there were markers which seemed to identify each survey with the person who …
