Break these four bad habits to pump up your productivity. Waking up without a morning routine. Rushing through the morning can have negative consequences on your sense of emotional well-being and overall productivity. Without a morning routine, it’s easy to skip important activities such as meditating, working out, and worse yet—skipping breakfast. Starting your day…
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The Right Way to Say ‘No’ to Your Boss
Are you comfortable saying, “no” to your boss? It’s important to be a team player, however if your boss continuously piles new projects on your plate, inevitably you will have to delay other work or worse yet, not complete the request at all—which will reflect poorly on you. The ability to say “no” is a…
Labor Day Lessons—The Residual Impacts of Employee Recognition
As leaders and organizations seek strategies to attract and retain top talent, many overlook one of the most basic and easily executed strategies—employee recognition. Shockingly, only one in three workers in the U.S. strongly agree that they received recognition or praise for doing good work in the past seven days according to a recentGallup poll….
Three Ways to Lead Your Team to the Next Level
Sometimes leaders wish that they had stronger teams, but how many examine themselves to ascertain how their leadership style impacts their team’s performance? There are two sides of the high performance team equation. First, managers must exhibit stellar leadership skills to drive employee engagement. Gallup estimates that managers account for at least 70% of variance…