by Dr. Rick Goodman | Sep 6, 2018 | Leadership, Team Building
You may have a number of top performers and high achievers on your team—but if they don’t trust you or one another, they’re ultimately not going to be very successful. In fact, they won’t even qualify as a true team. That’s because trust is the secret sauce. It’s the...
by Dr. Rick Goodman | Aug 20, 2018 | Leadership, Team Building
Here’s a basic truth of running a company: You never just hire an employee. You hire the employee’s whole family. Don’t believe me? Well, ask yourself a few questions. How much time do you think each employee spends thinking about their spouse/partner/kids each...
by Dr. Rick Goodman | Jul 30, 2018 | Leadership, Team Building
Many professionals reach a point in their career where they want to give back—to impart some of their learned experience to the folks who are just starting out. The formal name for this, of course, is mentoring—and it can be highly beneficial to mentor and mentee...
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 | 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...
