Tuesday Tidbit

Why are you here?  Here on this team?  Here in this organization?  Here on the earth?  These are simple questions relating to a complex subject; purpose.  Have you discovered yours? If you have a purpose in which you can believe, there’s no end to the amount of...

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Quarterly performance bonuses get announced to our frontline staff this week. Each person in the program has an opportunity based on his or her own personal production and work quality. For some, the bonus can be quite a bit of money! Our team members get their...

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How do these sentences make you feel? You have to meet this performance standard. You need to finish all of your work before you leave. You must complete these calls. You should work harder. How do these sentences make you feel? Based on what I’ve seen you do...

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I frequently find myself reviewing coaching plans these days. Some people think of them as the first step towards discipline in the ongoing performance management process. I like to think of them as a blueprint for success. My dad was a bricklayer, then a stone mason....

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As you might imagine, my library includes many books of quotations, daily positive messages, and other little inspirations that I call upon now and then for some motivation or reflection. Without a life event driving this week’s tidbit, I decided to randomly...

Tuesday Tidbit

This week, the United States of America celebrates the July 4, 1776 signing of the Declaration of Independence.  That history changing document is a great example of the power of teamwork. Although the freedom movement had been building for a couple years, formal...