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The Right Side of ‘My Way or the Highway’

By Kelly Riggs | Sales + Leadership

Seemingly every time a leader is faced with a difficult decision that adversely affects someone else, the first criticism is simple: “He/she is just a micromanager. It’s ‘my way or the highway.’” Yes, micromanagers are very common, but decisions that people don’t like or agree with don’t automatically signal micromanagement. This would mean a leader who makes any decision is, by definition, a micromanager if anyone disagrees with the decision. Which is quite ridiculous.

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Pay Me Now or Pay Me Later

By Kelly Riggs | Sales + Leadership

In the workplace, managers never have enough time. “I don’t have time” is the most common excuse managers offer up for failing to do the most critical leadership activities – communication, training, development, and planning. It’s not that managers don’t understand they need more time to do those things; they just never seem to have any extra time laying around. However, although managers constantly complain they never have enough of it, it’s amazing to see how poorly they invest what time they do have.

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Can Millennials Hack It in a Demanding Workplace?

By Kelly Riggs | Sales + Leadership

Boomers have little patience for the self-absorbed social media addict who wants to “hack” his/her way through life, avoiding the very appearance of work. So, it was little surprise when a 2014 survey of 20,000 HR managers by Scout Exchange and Oracle HCM Users Group revealed that HR managers have serious doubts about the Millennial work ethic.

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Yes, Managers Are Hurting Employee Performance

By Kelly Riggs | Sales + Leadership

What counts in business is performance – not promises of performance, not excuses for a lack of performance, and certainly not mediocre performance. It’s the results that matter; what people actually produce in the workplace. The problem is that sub-par employee performance is often created by MANAGERS. Yes, that is correct. Poor performance is often a result of what the manager does – or, more accurately, does not do.

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