by Dr. Rick Goodman | Jul 16, 2018 | Leadership, Management Skills, Team Building
Mentorship can be beneficial to all parties involved—the mentors, the mentees, and even your company more broadly. That’s because mentorship, when done right, is one of the best ways to improve employee engagement—showing your team members that you’re willing to make...
by Dr. Rick Goodman | Jun 20, 2018 | Human Resources, Leadership, Team Building
I’ve written at great length about the value of employee engagement, so there’s no need to rehash it here. Suffice to say, if your employees aren’t engaged, it means you’re not getting the best possible work out of them; and, there’s a good chance they’re looking to...
by Dr. Rick Goodman | May 21, 2018 | Leadership, Team Building
Great leaders are always in the market for fresh new ideas—actively seeking them out, soliciting them, soaking them up. Hopefully, yours is a company where all employees are encouraged to speak up and weigh in on where the business should head. And hopefully your...
by Dr. Rick Goodman | May 7, 2018 | Human Resources, Leadership, Team Building
Let me start by saying that there’s a time and a place to let people go. When you have an employee who’s simply not aligned with your culture, and whose toxicity is bringing the entire team down, your best option, frankly, may be to fire that employee. Yet firing an...
by Dr. Rick Goodman | Apr 23, 2018 | Leadership, Team Building
Today, most companies are intentional about codifying their culture. They write mission statements and mantras. They develop complex strategies for ensuring that those cultural values permeate every aspect of their corporate life. But none of that means anything if...
by Dr. Rick Goodman | Apr 18, 2018 | Leadership, Team Building
You probably know the anecdote about President Harry S. Truman, whose desk bore a sign with these words: The buck stops here. What he meant, of course, was that he and he alone was ultimately responsible for everything going on in his White House; beyond him, there...
