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Defining Your Unique Value Proposition: A LGL Virtual Meet and Greet

Let's Grow Leaders

When I recently published a post on the Lead Change Group Website, How to Promote Yourself Without Being Annoying , my first tip was “be confident in your product.” For example, when I am positioning myself for change management work in the call center space, I do believe I have a cocktail that is unique.

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22 Tips: Improving Business Communication Skills in the Workplace

Miles Anthony Smith

The Ultimate Guide of 22 Tips: How to Masterfully Improve Business Communication Skills in the Workplace Are you wrestling with any of these issues? Browse through these 22 stellar tips to become a more effective communicator in the workplace. Team having communication issues at work? Unsure of how to talk to management?

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What’s Really Killing Morale and Employee Engagement

Let's Grow Leaders

the call center I’d been called in to doing consulting work was doing so much right. I asked about the tipping point. So I transferred the phones to another center, and had everyone pull their chairs to the center of the office. I’m here every Saturday right along with them. I bring bagels.

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Beware Of The Accountability Trap

Terry Starbucker

There is no question that having a high level of accountability in the workplace is a good thing -the trick is getting your teammates to that point of clarity without tipping the scale over too far. She was describing a recent call she had with an elderly woman, who was too frail to climb under her desk to reset a cable modem.

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Max’s Leadership Touch

Lead Change Blog

While you are here I would like you to rub her arms and her legs with the tip of your finger. Zappos founder and CEO Tony Hsieh spends several hours of most weeks in the call center taking calls from customers. “For the next several months, you will be the surrogate father,” she told him. “I A Leader’s Touch.

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Why You Should Go There

Let's Grow Leaders

Recognizing that some members of the newly formed call center engagement task force may not know each other very well, I reached for one of my favorite, go-to, get-em-talking and laughing icebreakers, two truths and a lie. I tipped my hand. My selection was met with a few “Oh, not that again” grimaces.

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Chip Shots – When The Leader You Got Is Not The Leader You Wanted

Lead Change Blog

What tips would you give for restoring order and morale? I had a strong track record of success in human resources and call centers, but my highly experienced team was skeptical. Have you ever been in a position as a manager to facilitate a team through the on-boarding of a leader to whom they had expressed opposition?

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