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Elevate Employee Engagement: 5 Critical Leadership Skills

Rick Conlow

Leadership worldwide is in crisis mode. In all areas of life, leadership distrust has hit rock bottom. In the business arena leadership failures abound. Unengaged employees are less productive and lose companies billions of dollars in lost sales, poor customer service and inferior quality. He said, “I am the greatest!”

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How to GET Feedback When You Are the Leader

Rick Conlow

One sales executive told me he had an open-door policy. Later that week, I noticed a sales manager go in his office. So, he asks his employee team for formal feedback 2-3 times a year through individual departments meetings. Also, he schedules office hours for people to meet with him one on one or in small groups.

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The Top Eleven Things Employees Want From Their Leader

Rick Conlow

When consulting with clients we always find ways to do individual and team recognition at meetings. For example, use meetings, one on ones, virtual sessions, phone conferences, company portal, email, Zoom, and texts. For example, meet one on one with each employee monthly. This is called Servant Leadership. Communication.

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7 Employee Comments that Destroy a Team

Rick Conlow

However, these comments are also a wakeup call for a manager to improve his or her team leadership skills. I learned a valuable lesson about the lack of team leadership. A few people were hurt, team cooperation suffered and so did sales. If I hear rumors, I name it at the next team meeting, and address it. Guess what?

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Need Clients Now? 5 Strategies to Quickly Get More Consulting Clients

Consulting Matters

Ultimately - even if you're trying to meet urgent needs - you also still need confidence in your value proposition - because all of your immediate efforts will be focused on finding the people who you can help and who genuinely need you. Here's a sample script you can use when meeting someone at a networking event : Make Personal Contact.

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Win an Employee’s Heart, Achieve Superb Results

Rick Conlow

As a result performance, sales, customer service and quality suffers. Therefore, it could involve a chance meeting in the hall that leads to a quick goal review. These meetings generally take 30 minutes or so. In summary, coaching is the secret sauce of leadership success. What does that mean? Can you relate to this?

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Need Clients Now? 5 Strategies to Quickly Get More Consulting Clients

Consulting Matters

Ultimately - even if you're trying to meet urgent needs - you also still need confidence in your value proposition - because all of your immediate efforts will be focused on finding the people who you can help and who genuinely need you. Here's a sample script you can use when meeting someone at a networking event : Make Personal Contact.