Increasing Happiness Using Four Universal Strategies
Posted on03 Dec 2018
Tagschange management strategy, novelty of experience, strategy, storytelling, interpretation, happiness, appreciation
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People strive to be happy. Once they have it though it wanes. In other words, unless something changes they will become less... Read More
Understanding Employee Engagement And Its Drivers
Posted on19 Mar 2018
Tagsemployee engagement, Gallup News, words, relationships, passion, motivation, interpretation, emotions
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Employee engagement is in crisis. Gallup says no improvement has shown up in close to the twenty years it has tracked it.... Read More
Leadership, The Secret (Pt 7): Experts, Research & Beauty Contests
Leadership’s subjectivity and its unproven scientific status tempts us to rely heavily upon experts and their research to tell us what good... Read More
Confidence as a Psychological Weapon of Leadership
Posted on02 May 2013
Tagslogic, certainty, confidence, facts, honesty, Influence, interpretation, leadership, message, power, psychology, subconscious, trust, uncertainty, martyrs
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Confidence frequently indicates incompetence. However, leadership often requires confidence. Since people often fear uncertainty, they naturally gravitate to people who provide certainty,... Read More
Management Tips From Changing Taste Using Stories
Posted on07 May 2012
TagsPlacebo Management Series, Wayne Curtis, The Atlantic, taste, Talent, T.A. Breaux, storytelling, relationships, presentation, politics, placebo, liquor, intuition, interpretation, interpresonal, Ingvar Kamprad, IKEA, food
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Storytelling plays a valuable role in marketing. It seems though with foods it plays another role. That is one of changing taste... Read More
Reflection Tip to Build Strong Relationships in Conversations
We often don’t learn the value of listening techniques in building relationships. Consequently, people might not realize we are listening; the reflection... Read More
Two Aspects of Interpersonal Interactions: Tapping Their Power
Posted on04 Aug 2011
Tagsinterpersonal, Thoughts, tangibles, subconscious, relationships, reason, logic, intuition, interpretation, intangibles, impression, feelings, emotions, communication, cognition, boss
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The two aspects of every interpersonal interaction are thoughts and feelings. You can change people’s views of your ideas by changing how... Read More
Dealing with Co-workers Who Copy Bosses on Emails
Posted on26 May 2011
Tagsboss, co-workers, employees, interpretation, management by email, perspective, question, relationships
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As a result of my post, Dealing with Bosses Who Manage by Email, a reader’s email wanted to know what to do... Read More
Why Employees Lie Even When the Truth is Better
Posted on09 May 2011
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A labor relations expert emailed me describing a trial in which an employee lied about a previous injury even when the truth... Read More
Changing the Message without Changing the Message
Posted on30 Sep 2010
Tagsemotions, relationships, positive, negative, miscommunication, message, interpretation, instructions, impression, feelings, communication, commercial, change
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How do we change the impact of a message without changing anything about the message? In other words, as seen in the... Read More
