Grow Your Key Talent Blog
Convincing leadership to invest in people development
After my recent webinar, "Effectively Growing Your Key Talent: Are You Sunlight and Water -- or Just Manure?" I received some interesting questions. I thought I'd share some of them and my responses. Q: My organization faces tight budgets in the foreseeable future....
How can you find opportunities for staff to grow?
Here's another good question asked in my recent webinar, “Effectively Growing Your Key Talent: Are You Sunlight and Water — or Just Manure?” Q: How to find opportunities for employees to grow? A: I would guess that there are opportunities all around you to help...
Developing those near retirement
Here's another good question asked in my recent webinar, “Effectively Growing Your Key Talent: Are You Sunlight and Water — or Just Manure?” Q: As someone approaches retirement how do you keep them engaged in department development? A: As retirement gets closer and...
Motivating the unmotivated
After my recent webinar, "Effectively Growing Your Key Talent: Are You Sunlight and Water -- or Just Manure?" I received some interesting questions. I thought I'd share some of them and my responses over the next few posts. Q: Some staff just do not like change. How...
What if staff doesn’t want to grow?
Here's another good question asked in my recent webinar, “Effectively Growing Your Key Talent: Are You Sunlight and Water — or Just Manure?” Q: Some staff don't know what they need to grow. What to do with them? A: It's my belief that part of a manager's job if to...
Free webinar Aug. 14
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Intended kindnesses may backfire
Caring, conscious people want to be helpful. However, what seems like helpful to the giver can show up as unhelpful to the receiver. On a recent two-week trip with 14 strangers, we all got along. On the first day, one of my co-travelers asked if he could borrow...
Are your staff losing you revenue?
There's no way to watch what each of your employees does. So you have no idea if some of them are actively refusing requests from potential customers that would be pure profit. I watched this concept in action this week. A friend and I ordered a shared limo after a...