Posts Tagged ‘performance’
RIP Toys R Us
Toy’s R Us is dead – the last two stores have closed. As the store has gone through its multi-year descent, the debate has been underway about what killed the business: Was it poor strategy and execution? Including specific issues like store selection and website functionality…. (Business Insider) Did Private equity strip assets and saddle…
Read More022. Understanding the Motivation Myth with Jeff Haden
Forget everything that you think you know about motivation and listen to this podcast. Bestselling author, Inc writer, and blogger (over 1 million followers on LinkedIn alone), Jeff Haden, joins Patrick in the Leadership Lab to talk about his book The Motivation Myth. Don’t miss the chance to learn what it truly takes to motivate…
Read More5Ps Leading Teams to Top Results: Quick Team Assessment
Whether you aspire to lead people, are early on your role as a team leader, or have been leading teams for years, I strongly recommend you check out this tool. In working on the ground teams around the world, we’ve learned that the best team leaders and team members are clear on five key areas:…
Read More4 Consistent Causes of Inconsistent Performance
Let’s face it; sometimes our team members are inconsistent in their performance. Moreover, sometimes we are inconsistent in our own performance. This tool provides 4 common causes of inconsistent performance. Use it to generate discussion and change behavior. For more information on the subject, check out this Leddin Group blog article. Below is a downloadable…
Read MoreThe 145th Kentucky Derby is Saturday. 6 Derby Ideas to Improve Your Business.
May 4th is the first Saturday in May. That means it’s time for the Kentucky Derby (aka The Run for Roses or The Fastest Two Minutes in Sports). The Derby rarely disappoints. That was certainly true last year when Justify began a three-win stretch to win the Triple Crown. He is only the 13th horse…
Read MoreQueen shares why your early career needs a “free fall”
Guest Writer: Queen Stevenson This coming May, it will be two years since I graduated college. Wrapping my head around that is difficult, as I can just about remember what it was like to hammer through a last minute paper, or scramble to get to my dining center before it closed and I went hungry…
Read MoreInsights from an Amazing Performance: This Has Only Happened 5 Times in 147 Years
With four swings of the bat, Milwaukee Brewers center fielder, Christian Yelich, went from a successful baseball career to one destined for the record books. This week Yelich hit a single, a double, a triple, and a home run all in the same game. This is called hitting for the cycle; and, it is rare.…
Read More3 Problems Plaguing Your Productivity (#3 Might Be Killing You)
Today’s productivity problems go far deeper than just managing units of time. Our world has a few specific challenges that allow the time to just “go by,” and can leave us feeling unaccomplished and weary at the end of a day. Productivity Problem #1 We are making more decisions than we ever have before. Think…
Read MoreThe Answer to Engaging Your People May Lie in a 2,200-Year-Old Story
The great Archimedes (287–212 BCE), one of the world’s finest mathematicians, was a person before his time. Not only did he invent integral calculus and figure the approximate value of π (pi) he is also said to be the father of the machine age by discovering and putting to use the properties of levers and…
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