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Leadership Development: How to Promote and Grow Your Management Team
According to several independent studies, 80% of leadership positions have no formal training at all. If you run a mid-sized business and promote your management team internally (as the majority of the organizations out there), you likely fall into the majority of the businesses that grow organically. Management, along with leadership, is often taught “on…
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How Do You Effectively Plan Your Company’s Internal Training Programs
What is the purpose of internal training programs? Plenty of internal training programs for employees are designed to bring revenue to the business. Investing in employee learning can significantly boost a company’s success. ATD study shows that companies with comprehensive internal training programs see a staggering 218% higher income per employee compared to those without.…
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How to Assemble a High-Performing Team
Having spent my last 11 years growing an agency, one of the factors we squeeze and optimize most frequently is performance. Agencies are a weird beast that gets scrutinized all the time. Why? Agencies are a combination of them all. The feast-and-famine cycle leads to irregular levels of work, sales, and project management processes that…
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7 Useful Tactics To Establish A Solid Team
Every business owner or manager dreams of having the perfect team. But since there isn’t such a thing, settle for the next best — a team you’ve created and carefully trained. So, how do you establish a solid team? Hiring the best people does not necessarily and automatically equate to having the best team. Like…
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How to Manage Difficult People in Your Team
One of the biggest problems new managers face is juggling team management with other responsibilities. According to an analysis by the Center for Creative Leadership, about 68% of new managers struggle with this problem. In team management, managers mainly deal with managing difficult people and challenges involving underperformers, skills mismatch, slackers, and workplace conflicts. Although…
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Developing Discipline: 8 Integral Traits and Tips for Practical Application
While other self-development areas such as motivation, productivity, focus have been thoroughly explored and analyzed, discipline studies are less accessible. And anyone looking for tips for building self-discipline at work, breaking bad habits, or developing discipline for studying would need additional guidance on sifting through online resources not backed by data. The Dunedin Study, which…
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20 Actionable Ways to Retain Top Talent
How do you retain top talent? Employee retention rates are going down for most companies around the globe, especially with COVID-19 negatively affecting the workforce and with remote work opportunities. It has now become more challenging to retain top talent. The Information Technology (IT) industry itself and the digital world is making it look more…
