After twenty years being the boss, managing teams, boards, committees and volunteers; developing and implementing hundreds of successful programs and events; executing everything with a keen attention to progress to goal on several well thought out strategic plans and of course, my favorite, blowing our budget goals out of the water; I have shifted gears […]

You hire someone you believe will be an A-player. Someone who has the potential to make a significant contribution to your workplace and yet the potential you anticipate for this employee is never realized. Instead, you find yourself with a substandard performer that no matter how much you try, doesn’t seem to “get it.” Sound […]

Your best “recruiting” tool In 2014 I wrote an article about employee engagement and retention. At the time we were still coming out of the recession and the mindset of many leaders was, “Why actively work on employee retention? Employees should feel lucky to have a job.” Fast forward to 2018 and oh how times […]