It's the beginning of a new year. Hopefully you've come into the new year refreshed and ready for a new start.

Your team members may also be coming into the new year also refreshed. And/or looking for a fresh start.

And it may not be with you.

But that couldn't be, right?...

Ah, the holidays. It's the most wonderful time of the year.

Perhaps your workplace includes the sounds of kids jingle belling. Everyone telling you to be of good cheer. You hear holiday greetings and see gay happy meetings. Friends coming to call.

Or, it could be that th...

Think of every single member of your team. Visualize their performance and contributions this past quarter. I bet there is one person you're not thinking of that you need to manage better.

It's your boss, OK. Let's just get right to it.

You spend so much time focusing on...

There is this vicious cycle that I see in organizations when it comes to employee growth and development. 

• Employees want more of it. According to this Linkedin report, employees would stay longer with a company if the company invested in learning and development. 

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I have a friend who is a physician. When I bring up the mantra of "fail fast and fail often", her response is that the patient would be dead - fast - if she failed. 

And then she rolls her eyes at me for even mentioning said mantra. 

Whether or not we deal with life or d...

"We need to fire her."

My client was at the end of his rope with this employee. He went on to say that for the last three months, this employee hadn't been performing. She was unorganized and losing simple details in projects. Even worse, she had lost faith in the rest...

As the summer has progressed this year, my five-year old has started to love the idea of helping me out with errands and chores. He's thrown mulch in the yard. He helps put gas in the car and clean the windshields. He makes himself breakfast - as long as waffles are on...