Archive for the ‘Leadership’ Category


Leadership Styles – Are Your Shoes on Your Desk?

One day, when I was sitting in my boss’ office, we were having a very spirited debate.  I had just received a promotion and I was now the head of my department.  The spirited debate was not about my abilities to handle my new responsibilities.  It was about how I saw my role in this [...]

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3 Tips on How to Improve Your Team’s Self Esteem

I have heard more times than I can count, “You get what you expect out of life.”  I have heard people say they don’t expect good things to happen for them.  If they do, they think it will jinx them.  They believe healthy self esteem, somehow it is cocky, ego driven and wrong. When we [...]

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How to Handle Negativity and Develop a Team with Positive Attitudes

I have worked for many years in the corporate world leading top notch sales teams.  I have, also, had the opportunity to develop entrepreneurial sales teams.  One thing that I have found to be true with both is, working with people with a positive attitude is huge!  I have had people tell me that watching [...]

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What is the Difference Between a Manager and A Leader?

Since the beginning of time, humans have figured out that together everyone achieves more.  Together, they could create a group environment and split up the work load.  The team was born.  A team doesn’t work strictly in the business environment.  It works any time people need to get together to do anything, with an objective [...]

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Do You Use the Two Little Words that Keep You From Success?

There are two words in the English language, used together, are responsible for business that failures, paintings which never reach the canvas, and pinnacles of success that are never attained.  These two words seem so innocent.  As if saying them we are automatically exonerated from any efforts to reach inside of ourselves and pull out [...]

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What is Important for a Successful Career?

The path to a successful career can lead right through the dump.  When we start our careers of choice, there’s always a learning curve to contend with.  This learning curve can send us right through the dump of doubt, frustration and delays.  Wouldn’t it be amazing to decide what we are going to do, and [...]

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3 Tips on How to Become an Exceptional Leader that Inspires Team Loyalty

As a leader of people, when we can garner our people’s trust we can create a team of devoted people who will give 110% more to the team.  As Rensis Linkert, the noted psychologist who’s main focus of study was management styles, said, “The greater the loyalty of a group toward the group, the greater [...]

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