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How To Be A Coach And A Counselor

Eric Jacobson

A good manager is both a coach and a counselor. As a coach , a manager: identifies an employee's need for instruction and direction and this need is usually directly related to his or her performance or career goals. Generally, coaching should precede counseling. Coaching is collaborative.

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The January 2013 Leadership Development Carnival: Best of 2012 Edition

Great Leadership By Dan

How to grow a company that remains healthy long into the future. This post begins by considering the 400 year forest management plans that produce trees for making cognac barrels. Sharlyn Lauby , from HR Bartender , picked How to Tell if Your Boss is a Bully or Just Tough. What can leaders learn from the makers of fine cognac?

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Human Feedback is the Greatest Path to Efficiency

Strategy Driven

Once you are aware of this, you can re-wire your brain to see feedback-giving as a very positive way to help employees do a great job and succeed in their careers. Most recently, Anna has focused on how leaders and team members can overcome their barriers to exchanging valuable feedback in the workplace. Want to learn more?

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Q&A With Best Selling Author And Expert Storyteller, Paul Smith

Eric Jacobson

Since the book was published about three years ago, my admiration for Paul's passion for storytelling and helping to teach people how to effectively tell stories has only but grown. What has Lead with A Story done for your career? I feel you started that trend. Why are so many others jumping in? Paul : It’s completely changed it.

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The Big Picture of Business – Tribute to a Great Mentor. Remembering Cactus Pryor.

Strategy Driven

He taught me how to deliver live commercials and to ad-lib. Through the remotes, I learned how to feed lines and develop the talent to speak in sound bites, as I do for business media interviews to this day. I was with Cactus at a remote for Armstrong-Johnson Ford. As an integrated process of life skills, career has its place.

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Best Human Resource Books to Make Management Easy for Beginners

HR Digest

Human resource management books provide an in-depth knowledge of all there is to know. . Strategic human resource management books explain and break down everything concerning being a human resource manager or having a team. We will provide the best HR books for beginners and current managers as well. .

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How to Deal with a Passive-Aggressive Colleague

Harvard Business Review

It could be that they don’t know how to communicate or are afraid of conflict. “Not everyone likes or knows how to publicly discuss or express what they think,” says Su. How to Handle Difficult Conversations at Work. Unfortunately, Violet became very difficult to manage. Further Reading.

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