Supervisory Basics 2: Setting Clear Expectations
Setting clear expectations is critical to team success When you are an employee, you expect your team leader to let you know what your job is and to teach you how to get that job done. Many supervisors make the mistake of assuming their team already knows what to do...
Present yourself better
Public speaking and presentation coach Nelda Schulte explains how to improve your presentation skills for everyday job communications. Get clear about your message, find out how the audience can best hear it, practice the delivery, evaluate the results.
Productivity challenge: Your employees are not your family
The news is not good. It appears the Alberta approach to improving productivity is to throw more people, money and material resources at the issue without considering – or measuring for – the consequences. Financial Post’s July 25th story by Yadullah...
Effective meetings strategy #2: Matching goals with questioning strategies
We’ve all been there…stuck in a meeting fighting hard to keep either our eyes open or to stop them from rolling. And, as comedian Dave Barry so aptly highlights in the quotation above, we might just be left feeling that our potential has somehow been...
