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Giving and Getting Feedback - What to Ask the Person in the Mirror

Posted by Douglas A Wick on Mon, Jul 1, 2024

After my first promotion to sales manager, my General Manager (previously my sales manager), adamantly told me one of my jobs as sales manager was to make sure I trained my replacement.

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Topics: Employee Feedback, leadership, What to Ask the Person in the Mirror, Robert Steven Kaplan, Giving and Getting Feedback

10 Ways to Improve Employee Communication During Work Hours

Posted by Odessa Powell on Mon, Jul 3, 2023

Office communication can be improved in several ways. I just returned from a Quarterly Planning Meeting where we took a full day to work through Patrick Lencioni’s Five Dysfunctions of a Team. The team enjoyed it, felt closer, set rules for conflicts, and built a theme to improve accountability! Odessa Powell contributed this article while I’m on vacation, sharing additional ideas on how to improve team communication.

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Topics: Employee Feedback, employee engagement, employee performance, Better communication, Employee Wellbeing, Great Teams

Invest in Your Leadership Skills, Improve Employee Satisfaction

Posted by Katie Brenneman on Mon, Nov 21, 2022

I am grateful this week of Thanksgiving for Katie Brenneman, guest writer, who provides insights into why you should invest in your leadership skills to improve your team's level of job satisfaction:

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Topics: Employee Feedback, employee engagement, Effective Leadership, Employee Satisfaction, Mental Health, Leadership Skills

Start, Stop, Keep – Required Annual Planning

Posted by Douglas A Wick on Mon, Dec 14, 2020

If you’re not approaching your Annual Planning process by asking your staff what you should start, stop, and keep doing, I strongly recommend you START doing it.

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Topics: Employee Feedback, Annual Plan, Employee Survey, Press Release, Annual Planning, Start Stop Keep Survey

What is Willful Blindness

Posted by Douglas A Wick on Mon, Apr 20, 2020

What is willful blindness?

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Topics: Employee Feedback, employee performance, Work Environment, Coronavirus, Willful Blindness, COVID19

Why Role-Playing Fails

Posted by Douglas A Wick on Mon, Mar 9, 2020

Start discussing role playing, and most people quickly feel an aversion to it.

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Topics: Employee Feedback, employee performance, Training, training and education, Sales Training, Role Play

Your Business Impacts Your Employees – A Christmas Story

Posted by Douglas A Wick on Mon, Dec 25, 2017

As business owners, it’s easy to forget the impact we have on those we employ.

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Topics: Employee Feedback, Employee Recognition, People

Company Colonoscopy: Start, Stop, Keep, Employee Survey

Posted by Douglas A Wick on Thu, Dec 29, 2016

Tuesday a high school class mate of mine decided to have a colonoscopy performed for the second time.  I’ve written about Steve before in It Starts With the Right People.  He let me know late Tuesday he is still the perfect asshole!

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Topics: Employee Feedback, employee engagement, People Decisions, The Right People, Employee Survey, Gallup's Q12 Employee Engagement Survey

Scrum Reminders From Noah’s Solo Ensemble Performance

Posted by Douglas A Wick on Thu, Apr 21, 2016

Saturday my son Noah performed his Double Bass solo at the Iowa state solo ensemble.

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Topics: Employee Feedback, Strategic Discipline, Aubrey Daniels, Scrum

Employee Feedback and Closing the Loop

Posted by Douglas A Wick on Mon, May 4, 2015

Are you open to learn from your errors?  If you’re open to learn from your mistakes, often they can launch success and opportunities that would never have occurred without accepting failure. 

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Topics: Employee Feedback, themes, Culture of Discipline, Company Culture, Scaling Up Verne Harnish

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