How to Create an Amazing Experience for a New Team Member
Making sure a new team member's first day goes well and they have a great impression of your organization is very important. But how often do we rush through this process or overlook just how much im...
29 Jul 201921min
How to Manage Over Ambitious and All Knowing Staff
There can be a variety of reasons in our work in international development that we end up with someone on our team who knows everything, or at least they think they do. It could be that culturally it...
22 Jul 201918min
How to Have a Difficult Conversation with Your Team
A five year study by Google on highly effective teams found that by far the most important characteristic of a successful team is to feel safe to take risks and be vulnerable. So how can we create a...
15 Jul 201915min
Four Ways to Build Trust With Your Team
The first job of a leader - at work or at home - is to inspire trust." - Stephen M.R. Covey Every day we have the opportunity to either strengthen or weaken trust with others through our actions and w...
8 Jul 201924min
How to Handle a Difficult Coworker
We've all worked with that person. The one that spreads rumors about others or the organization or even about you. I have worked with my share of difficult people, and it can really take a toll on y...
1 Jul 201910min
How to Delegate Effectively
Effective delegation can mean the difference between feeling confident and supported versus anxious and overwhelmed. If done well, effective delegation can motivate your direct reports and free up yo...
17 Jun 201916min
How to Know If Your Staff is the Reason You Are Micro Managing
Are you a micro manager? Maybe you just feel like you have to follow up a lot with certain staff on your team. It's not always easy to tell when the need to constantly follow up and sometimes comple...
10 Jun 201920min
Are You A Micro Manager? How to Tell and What to Do About It Part One
No one wants to be a micro manager, and no one wants to be managed by one either. On the part of the manager it is normally accompanied by stress and anxiety that something will not get done. From a d...
3 Jun 201917min
