Corporate Misadventures- Don’t Mess with Me, I’m in Sales
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Manager Leader Tip from the Manager Leader’s Handbook
Attention all manager leaders! Please take a break from proofreading every email that your employees send and watch this video, it might prevent your car from getting sold for parts. For even more helpful yet entertaining tips for manager leaders, check out my Unleash Your Inner Tyrant! presentation, training program and book.
The 3 Things That Matter Most to Your Employees (and 2 Ways You Can Refuse to Give It to Them)
Gallup released a new study recently. That shouldn’t come as a surprise, since they release a new study every 8 minutes or so. Given that a lot of their studies end up returning the same results as previous studies, I often think they only keep doing it because people pay them and they can’t figure…
Caption Contest- Polar Vortex Edition!
What is happening in this photo? Leave a comment with a creative caption and you could win a copy of my book Unleash Your Inner Tyrant! Make sure to comment by 10pm on February 21, 2014. Click here to read the rules and entry requirements!
Doritos Commercial Highlights the Plight of HR Professionals
This one’s for my HR people. I know people sometimes get annoyed with you guys because you seem to have paperwork for everything. Most of them think that you guys LIKE all that paperwork. But you don’t, do you? You just have to do it because it’s the law. And WHY is it the law? …
The 3 Most Unorthodox (and Most Effective) Ways to Motivate Your Employees
Listen more. Be positive. Celebrate success. Give people bacon. You’ve heard all the standard ways to motivate your employees before, and you’re tired of reading the same advice. Luckily for you, I’m tired of writing it, too. Don’t get me wrong. I still want to help you become a better manager. I still want you…
New Years Resolutions- Exercise More!
So January is coming to an end. Have you given up on your resolutions yet? If so, I bet this photo will inspire you to exercise more! I hope you enjoyed my resolutions photo series as much as I enjoyed making it. Here are links to the other resolutions in case you missed any: Be…
5 Must-Haves for a Great Motivational Speaker
We’ve all suffered through terrible motivational speakers before. When you were a baby your parents gave you foul-tasting baby food like squashed beets and pretended it was delicious, but they were lying and now you hate the noble beet in all its various forms. I’m also pretty sure you’ve been in the audience at a…
Productivity Hacks – Why I Take More Breaks Than Anyone Else
I’m not a LinkedIn Influencer (yet!!) so nobody really asked me to write this, but that’s not going to stop me from doing it. After all, if I waited around for people to ask me to do stuff, I probably wouldn’t have a business, and I definitely would never have gone to Prom. Besides, writing…
New Years Resolutions- Go On A Trip!
One way to make 2014 the best year ever is to travel! If you can’t afford to go somewhere far away and tropical, try visiting the next town over instead. You never know what you might discover. For example, I was in Fort Wayne, Indiana and I learned that the garbage disposal was invented there.…