As a leader, one of your most important tasks is to help your people do their work more effectively. Key to that task is motivating those you lead, but how to do it? With gift cards and parties? While extrinsic motivators have their place, I think we all know that...
Do you die a little on the inside when performance improvement is brought up? How about end of year performance reviews? Many shudder to consider annual performance reviews because at many organizations these year-end events are little more than rituals that hold...
What makes the best teams? Why are there some teams where members would literally lay down their lives for each other, while other teams are doomed to constant arguing, fighting, and instability? These, and other questions led Simon Sinek to dig into the details of...
Behaviorism is a way of understanding humans through the concept of conditioning. Behaviorism focuses on how–through rewards and punishments–human behavior can be changed. We are all familiar with behaviorism in one way or another, whether it be your...
One of the hardest parts of leadership is managing the overlapping goals, tasks, and work of those you have to lead. A good team will have different individuals working on different projects with different timelines, all united in the purpose of forwarding your goal...
