Is it just a Team or Family?

In terms of unity, is your group of employees a team or a family? Consider quite a few things on whether or not you are having a family atmosphere at your workplace, or if it's just a team.

Before quitting a current job or accepting a new job, make sure you're going to be with a family-style team, or if it's just going to be generic team (punch-in, punch-out).

It's a lot harder, in fact, to fire a family member if they were working in your organization, rather than just another person. So, if you treat your team like family, the chances of the person doing something outrageous goes down, and the chances of you hopping off the wire go down.

Guest Post: Six Ways Leadership Starts with You

Six Ways Leadership Starts with You (via http://westfallonline.com)

What’s behind every great leader, and every great leadership story? Turns out, leadership is a two-way street. Employees can actually train their bosses to be better leaders. There are skills and leadership characteristics that many employees possess…

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Know the Difference Between Leading and Controlling People

Many reasons exist to why people should be led rather than controlled. However, many people misunderstand leadership and should consider looking at some differences between controlling people and leading people.

Here are some of the controlling characteristics:

Very Strategic Reasons to start a business THIS YEAR!!!

 

The time has not been much better than this year to start a business. Now's your chance to go for a great business idea. From crowdfunding to open investing, it is a good time to start a business, nonetheless.

Many people were worried about the presidential election last year, because there were many advantages and disadvantages at stake for the business owners of the USA. With that not being a problem anymore, people can move forward without trouble. With now knowing the issues that are faced with entrepreneurship and some of the benefits, plans can be moved forward confidently!

Empower and Electrify Young Leaders with these Tips

Empowerment is defined as giving authority to, authorize, or give power to. To electrify someone is to equip, thrill, or excite greatly. Therefore, here are some tips that should be used to empower and electrify your leaders.

1. Coach people instead of trying to teach them.

Instead of telling leaders what had made you so successful, instead coach them and help them reach their goals in leadership. Giving them good advice is fine, but in times in the future, people reject good advice.

Leaders: Stop Being Held Back with these 5 Ways of Thinking

In the interest of fairness, it's best to note I'm not making assumptions about your character, leaders. This should however help you realize what ways of thinking are not helping. You see, leadership is much more about quality character, but also a good sense of humor, good relationships, and a good attitude!

Here are ways of thinking that are probably holding you back from accomplishing what you want to accomplish in leadership:

1. You expect people to just give you handouts. What I mean is, you expect people to just pay you for not doing anything. Many people fall into the guilt trap that other people put them through, and so they get money or other stuff from that other person for free. In return of guilt, its aim is to make the other person feel bad for you.

Many Ways to Criticize Others Constructively without Hurting

Criticizing other people in hurtful ways is a good way to obtain enemies, so what ways can we offer criticism that gets heard by people in a constructive, helpful way? What are some true ways to seek helpful advice when you need it?

Recognize and compliment the good in other people. Note that you are criticizing a small thing in a big project/organization/etc. Realize the good before touching on the not good parts.

Be specific on the offering of your suggestions for improvement. Don't let your ego get in the way of explaining in full detail the good and the bad of a project or organization. Make sure to be specific and offer the best advice.

Leveraging your Brand's Strategy to the Next Level

Many keys to note in leveraging your brand to the next level. Let's explore...

First realize that your brand is what people say it is. This means that the way people talk about your brand, that's really what you're creating. So, if you want to create an awesome brand, then people have to say it's awesome, not you. If you want to make a brand reach to the ends of the earth, then people have to do it, not just you. There's a lot of work in dealing with brands, as well as promotion.

Most of the successful companies that create awesome brands and lift them off so quickly is because they have a repeat good strategy, the people to do it, and purpose behind everything they do. It comes directly from the culture originally created when the first successful brand was launched. What's stopping you? Persistence. Keep trying! Anyway, let's look at some good building blocks for brands.

How to Improve your Social Network Strategy

There are many ways to satisfy your social network followers, but it can be difficult to get a lot of attention. Even for me as a blog owner, it's tough to have good social networking patterns. However, I'm going to share a few things that I've learned recently, in hopes that it will help you also. Then, we can say we're working on it together!