by Misti Burmeister | Feb 26, 2015 | Leadership, Provoke your Performance |
Ever keep an employee, even though you knew it was time to move on? They clearly violated your values, though they also brought vital skills to the table. As a result, you hold on to them, hoping they will change their ways. Such decisions are made out of fear (not...
by Misti Burmeister | Feb 19, 2015 | Provoke your Performance |
While many hiring managers do their best to hire talented people with the right attitude, mistakes happen and the wrong employees end up on the team. Even if the work they do is valuable (or even critical), these employees become a challenge that sets the foundation...
by Misti Burmeister | Feb 15, 2015 | Interviews with Provokers, Provoke your Performance |
In this exclusive interview, Tom Ziglar, CEO of Ziglar, Inc., disclosures Ziglar’s time-tested formula for: Getting your team to care, Inspiring excellence in others, Discovering your vision, Building trust, and Building and strengthening communities, and...
by Misti Burmeister | Feb 12, 2015 | Leadership, Provoke your Performance |
***NOTE: To celebrate our 1-year anniversary of podcasting, this is a re-post of our first episode! Man, we’ve come a long way! Thank you for this journey and stay tuned for lots more this year. With Valentine’s Day just around the corner, most of us have...
by Misti Burmeister | Feb 5, 2015 | Leadership, Provoke your Performance |
Sitting across the table from Jay, a CEO with one hundred employees, I listened as he talked about firing Geoff, a member of his leadership team who was hired just six months prior. What went wrong? “The people on his team don’t like him,” Jay said. “They don’t think...
