Is money the best reward for a job well done?
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Rewards are awesome. When my oldest daughter behaves well and does her chores and earns something like a new set of Lego she’s ecstatic. She’s also pretty happy for some nice shiny loonies (that’s Canadian for a $1 coin). But talk to her later in the month and the thing she actually remembers earning is
A Scary $100K Mistake on Your First Day
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I’ve got a friend who, on the first day of his new job, cost his company $100,000. He worked for an airplane refitting company and the story goes that he was told to compact some garbage. As he gathered garbage for compacting, one box in the refuse seemed odd to him so he asked someone
Mentoring your employees…how?
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On Tuesday I talked about promoting your best innovators and then the fact that many of them turn themselves in to the sole innovators. They figure that they’re always going to be the best at new ideas so they don’t listen to their team. But it’s not just employees that do this. Business owners do
Have your best people started ruining your innovation?
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We have a problem in many organizations, which is managers and business owners believing they have the best ideas and are the only source of innovation for the company. On the surface, it seems to make sense that the people at the top would drive innovation. After all, many of these people rose through the
What does listening to your employees look like?
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Years ago I worked at a company that talked big about valuing the ideas of their employees. They’d set up meetings or call you in to the office to ask for a feedback on which products to purchase or on how the sales floor should be laid out. Really all that consultation was really just
Staying in shape as a desk jockey
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After the great discussion on family first on WP Tavern, along with Cory Miller talking openly about mental health I decided it’s time to write about how fitness and my work as a developer/business owner/desk jockey meld in my life. Exercise and Mental Health Did you know that exercising can help you feel happier? Not
Play the big game with your life sentence
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People playing a big game don’t have time for a small game – Dan Sullivan Dan talks about this in reference to people you see name calling and back biting and diving in to guilt. Their game is so small that it includes these things. If you’re playing a bigger game then these things don’t
Giving freedom to employees
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Have you ever been disappointed by an employee? Don’t have employees? How about a friend or spouse — have they disappointed you? Has an employee, or a helper, said they’d do something for you but then just not done it the right way? Yup, that’s totally frustrating, but in spite of your expectations, you should
Habit or Inspiration?
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Is it better to work by habit or by inspiration? Notice I didn’t ask which approach sounds like more fun, because then the answer would be obvious — working when you’re inspired is the answer if you’re looking for ‘fun’. I’m not looking for fun though, and if you want to run a solid, long-lasting
Inspiring Employees is not Cheerleading
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We all want employees who are excited to come to work. We want them to be inspired to give us and our clients their best work. To forge new ground and make our clients happier than they’ve ever been about doing business with a company like ours. How do you get employees to that stage,
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