Weekly Posts and Insights
I have to run meetings now! Where do I start? 13 tips to keep your meetings on track as a young leader
Do you know how much your meetings cost? Seriously. It’s so common now to be 5 minutes late, not have a direction to meetings, scribble a half-baked agenda (if that) and rarely have action items coming out of the meetings. Sometimes we meet just to say we met!
I’m A New Manager! Help!
Many of those that have gone through one of my workshops know that I despise the word manager. It’s too sterile and authoritarian. It doesn’t describe the actual purpose of the role. When you have entered the arena of manager (welcome!), you take on a new role. You are no longer suppose to make the widgets, work in the weeds, mow the lawn! Yes, you doing so well at those jobs probably got you there, but it is important to know when you receive the title of manager, supervisor or coach, you are putting down your widget making ability and picking up the skillsets of guiding a team to success!
Dealing With A Bully Boss
What makes a boss a bully? I believe that bully bosses think very highly of themselves, in fact to a certain degree they believe they are the only ones with the correct answers. Interestingly, this often shows up in mid-process, not in the beginning. Some will allow people to get started on a project or task, because they don’t fully know how to do it themselves. They will often not participate in the development of ideas, but focus instead on critiquing ideas once they are generated. Others will berate staff for not having answers early enough in a project and will supply all the answers from the start.
Crush Your Next Presentation With These 40 Tips
You probably aren’t going to have to do a TED talk anytime soon in your near future. However, we all have to present, communicate and convince other people. Asking for that salary raise? Discussing the new project with your team? Needing to get buy in from stakeholders? Speaking in front of your board? This all requires crushing it during the presentation. Presentation skills, I believe, are one of the most undervalued, least taught, and difficult skill for many leaders to master. Here are 40 tips, hints and facts that I practice, use routinely and hope you find some help with: crushing your next presentation…
Founder, Creator, Entrepreneur: Welcome To The Stage Generation Z!
Sorry folks, but this will be a long post. It’s finally time to talk about Gen Z. We’ve only scratched the surface. We’ve hopefully but together a good list of trending attributes to this generation. Give it a read and let us know what you think…
I'm not always the best at being assertive, here are 7 Steps I learned to become more assertive
I have to be honest, and you may not believe me, but this is one of the hardest skills I am in the works of learning. Perhaps it's my 8-person family, puritan upbringing, and as a middle child I just went along with what the group wanted, but assertiveness has never been a strength of mine. I believe in a give, give, give, ask method of forward movement (in marketing, sales, strategy, people, etc.), however sometimes I recognize the ask has to come a little bit sooner. Assertiveness is not being tough or arrogant. It’s actually a very humble and thoughtful dance. It is recognizing that we have value and we sometimes need to put up boundaries for others to recognize our value.
Stop Talking about Generations and Start Talking About Better People-Skills!
My punch line at the end of most of my talks is, “we don’t have a Millennial problem, or even a generation problem, we have a people to people problem.” As the generation guy, I’m saying we need to stop talking about generations and start talking about empowering our workers (Boomers, Xers, Yers, all) to better handle people!
Millennials with Matt Episode 7: Being the Right Cultural Fit for Millennials
The workplace is needing to reimagine their organizational culture as the Millennial generation come with different expectations, approaches and lifestyles then previous generations. Learn from generations specialist Matt Harrington about 3 areas to focus on when looking for the right cultural fit for your Millennial workers.
Millennials with Matt Episode 6: 9 Things That Drive Millennials Away from Organizations
Generations specialist Matt Harrington brings us another quick video on the 9 things that organizations do that drive Millennials to find other places to work. For more information on this and other generations content visit www.GrowingMillennialLeadership.com
XPollination (Ep. 18) - Special Guest Dan Schawbel LIVE from the #VTSHRM15 Conference
XPollination was asked by the conference committee at #VTSHRM15 to do an exclusive interview with nationally-renowned Millennial speaker, Dan Schawbel. Dan Schawbel is the Founder of WorkplaceTrends.com, a research and advisory membership service for forward-thinking HR professionals, as well as the Managing Partner of Millennial Branding, a Gen Y research and consulting firm. Dan is the New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestselling author of Promote Yourself: The New Rules For Career Success (St. Martin’s Press) and the #1 international bestselling book, Me 2.0: 4 Steps to Building Your Future