Why Micro-Managing is Good: good managers aren’t afraid to micro-manage their teams if it’s needed.
How do you deal with excuses? We all look for excuses, ways to put off what needs to be done. The least little change always prompts resistance.
Looking for a New Years’ Prediction List? Too bad – they are a waste of time. Stop predicting and starting preparing for the unpredictable.
Productivity tips: 4 questions to ask yourself regularly to help you stay on top of what you need to do (or not do).
What should you look for when choosing a marketing agency? These five tips on choosing a marketing agency should help you select a vendor.
Designers need strong marketing direction, creative briefs and strategic guidelines to design print pieces, website and other creative projects.
As easy as it might be to condemn such behavior, bosses instead need to embrace it. There’s nothing wrong with admitting that maybe, just maybe, your current workplace can’t meet all of your professional goals and curiousities. In fact, it might not even be able to train you in some of the areas you’re most interested in.
Instead of denying that it’s happening in your office, learn how to leverage it. Ask your employees what they’re working on. Find out what they’re learning. Get to know them more, and get to know what they can do for the company more.
It’s rare for the person with the answers to just speak up. But if you know the questions to ask, you can prompt the people with the answers to share them with everyone else. And when they speak up, you know what to do, and they feel empowered.
We’re all driven by the end goal of whatever projects we pour ourselves into. We invest so we have lots of money in 30 or so years. We write so people will read our thoughts and even comment. We play a game or sport so we can win at it. We go above and beyond [...]
There seems to be a disturbing trend in today’s workforce. Too many supervisors are asking their employees to write their own job description. This is stupid, and speaks volumes about the management (basically, that it sucks). A job description should be written to fill a need of the business. It’s purpose is not to communicate [...]
