Surveys can be used to train your employees on your mission, your goals, your culture, and your expectations for management and leadership. Here is the ultimate guide to Employee Engagement Surveys.
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Surveys can be used to train your employees on your mission, your goals, your culture, and your expectations for management and leadership. Here is the ultimate guide to Employee Engagement Surveys.
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There are a lot of ways to get strategic planning done and done well. Each company is a little different. Below are three basic methods to develop your strategy. At Lion Leadership, we encourage you to pick what will work for you and for your team uniquely.
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Whether you are a solopreneur or an owner of a small business, you need a plan to make 2023 great. After all, how will you achieve your goals if you don’t even have them written down? Below are the 5 ‘must-have’ components for your 2023 plan.
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In business, building a loyal customer base that you can tap into for promotional purposes and growth is a remarkable achievement. To retain their loyalty, brands need to make customers feel valued and catered to in a personal and personalized way. This is why so many companies have instituted loyalty programs to reward their customers.
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Self-promotion is a challenge for professionals in every industry. While it’s difficult to know what the “right” way to promote oneself is, when you achieve the correct balance, effective self-promotion can increase your visibility, build your reputation and move you closer to achieving your career goals.
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Growth is an important goal for every company, especially for a new or small business looking to gain traction. However, too much growth over a short period of time can actually be dangerous.
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It is nearly impossible for a person to be both a great manager and a great entrepreneur. This is because the two jobs require completely different skill sets.
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Success in any field requires a clear understanding of the most effective ways to communicate with others. Poor communication skills can not only damage your reputation but also cause your company to lose business.
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Congratulations! You’ve successfully gotten your new business off the ground and made it through the first year. Of course, the hard work isn’t finished. As you approach your second year of being in business, there are new challenges to meet and overcome.
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With so many businesses today relying on technological tools and systems, demand for professionals in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) is at an all-time high. And when giants like Google and Microsoft have the resources to make irresistible job offers, recruiting top STEM talent to work at your small tech company can seem impossible.
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To maintain long-term success, organizations have to continually adjust to consumer behavior, and the longer a business remains in operation, the more likely it is that its customers’ tastes will change.
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“What is a workplace culture and how do you get a good one?” To further that conversation, below I list 4 easy ways to make your workplace culture great. To an early career manager, it might not be immediately obvious why these strategies would work; however, to a seasoned manager, you should be able to connect the dots in the understanding of human emotion related to brand loyalty, trust, and work ethic.
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Business gurus have trumpeted the importance of workplace culture for years. Hundreds of books, if not thousands, have been written on the topic. This means that the answer to the question - “What is a workplace culture and how do you get it?”
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If you are a people leader, and if you have been for a while, then you know what it is like to lead both high-performing employees as well as low-performing employees. Below is the 9-box model I often teach my management students.
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Don’t you wish your very best of employees would simply stay with you forever? I certainly do. The truth, however, is that this is unlikely to happen. At some point, people will want to grow, change, and try a new endeavor. Does the question thus become à how can you people fulfill in their position, for as long as possible, in a way healthy for the both of you?
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When you hire an employee and expect excellence, nothing is more disappointing than to discover that you have hired a toxic person onto your team. Yet, more often, we find that people don’t hire toxic people — they inherit them. Why is that? It is because toxic people are incredibly hard to confront, more or less, to terminate. What is a good manager to do? Below I will share Lion Leadership’s advice on what to do if and, more likely when you find yourself in this situation.
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It’s normal to have people at work that you do not like. It is also normal to spin out over your distaste for these coworkers in negative ways. Yet, the question becomes, what can we do that is more pro-social and more functional for both our emotional health and our own professionalism?
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Remember that boss you had a few years ago that you despised? Remember thinking that, if only you were the boss, you would be so much better? This brings us to two important questions: First, do you think that your awful boss set out to be that way? I doubt it. After all, who has hopes and dreams of having their teams and direct reports hate them? Second, now that you are the boss, have you turned into your own worst nightmare?
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If you are watching your peers get promoted ahead of you at work, and you are getting more and more resentful of it, you need to find a way to get noticed for good reason and not for the volcanic eruption that will ensue if this continues.
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