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...
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 | Mar 26, 2018 | Leadership, Management Skills, Team Building
Have you ever heard of a product so good, it “practically sells itself?” I hear this turn of phrase from time to time, and I’m here to tell you: It’s a total lie. There’s no such thing as a product that sells itself. No matter how valuable your business offering is,...
by Dr. Rick Goodman | Mar 15, 2018 | Leadership, Team Building
Depending on your personality type, networking can either sound like a lot of fun, or like absolute torture. While the outgoing among us have no trouble meeting new people or turning strangers into friends, introverts may find the entire prospect rather...
