Are you a frustrated leader? Are you frustrated with your employees, with your business, with your life? Are you afraid of being left behind in this booming economy? Do you wish your employees would come to work each day with enthusiasm, excitement, and passion rather than just “clocking in and clocking out”? Do you want to grow your business? Do you want to achieve successful results that (Continue)
Growth Doesn’t Have to Frustrate Your Employees: This CEO Still Keeps Up With Their Birthdays (& Ensures They Get Their Favorite Cookies)
When your company is experiencing tremendous growth, you often wonder how you’ll sustain your current workforce and keep your employees engaged. Brian Stern has managed to not only sustain his employees, but actively engage them, give them ownership, and help their personal development. In less than ten years, their company has grown from nothing to four subsidiaries in multiple cities across (Continue)
Your Team is Not Your Problem
Have you ever looked in the mirror and thought, “I want someone to come in and ‘fix’ my people?” Take another serious look in the mirror at yourself to raise your self-awareness. Can I suggest that your people are merely a reflection of you? The Truth Would you give me permission to speak truth to you? Fellow leader, you are the one who needs to be (Continue)
How Coordinating Events Taught One Man The Importance of Listening
There is a reason we have two ears and only one mouth. Listening is an incredibly important skill to develop and it will get you farther in your personal life and career than speaking too quickly ever will. John Esparza is the President & CEO of the Texas Trucking Association, but before that he worked for Governor Bush’s office in the 90s as the Coalition Director. During this time (Continue)
Change Your Leadership, Change Your Life
Do you ever feel like “you are up to your neck in alligators”? Do you spend all day dealing with all the worries that are threatening to pull you (and your business) under? If you are open for change, please take our FREE 5-minute ON&IN Leadership Assessment <here>. I’ll never forget the day that my dad unexpectedly died. I was a recent university graduate, and the news hit me like (Continue)
Prioritizing “We” Before “I”
Leaders lead. It’s a simple truth, but one that can be hard to pin down pragmatically. When your business is growing, what’s the best way to execute your objectives as a leader in a way that ensures all your employees’ benefit? Fortunately, we recently got to sit down with James Frank—the CEO of Sharp Iron and Transland, as well as a representative in the Texas House of Representatives—on (Continue)
Creating An Abundant Workplace Culture
Workplace culture. Does this phrase sound familiar? It probably does. Why? Because it is everywhere. Why is it everywhere? Because it is an interesting topic. A topic that is constantly relevant. A topic that has practical value. Workplace culture is more than having a ping pong table in the office or offering gourmet coffee to staff in the (Continue)
The Characteristics of Great Leadership in the Workplace
What makes a good leader? A delegator? An inspirer? A strong force on the front lines? It can be argued that a good leader consists of all of those things. But how should leadership in the workplace be encouraged and developed? In a recent conversation with Bob Payton, President and CEO of Dental Planet, Bob gives insight into what good leadership in the workplace looks like. Bob (Continue)
Here’s How to Grow Your Business
Many years ago, a friend told me about a seminar that he had attended. Each seminar participant received a cap with the word ON on the front of the cap and the word IN on the back of the cap. They were asked at the start of the seminar to wear the cap backward - showing the IN above his or her face. Each person could not turn around the cap with the ON above his or her face until they (Continue)
What Makes for Great Employee Engagement?
Employee Engagement. We all know it’s important. We all know it directly affects the bottom line. But, what’s the secret to building it and keeping it high? We had the chance to sit down with Jason Turner, VP at ArcBest, to chat about that and more surrounding the topic of employee engagement. Engagement with employees has been extensively studied over the years. As Jason defined (Continue)