As a small-business manager, your role is to guide and motivate employees into getting the job done. Therefore, leadership and motivation go hand in hand. Over the years, researchers have developed a ...

Accepting shame as a motivator is a recipe for misery. A top executive I know once received an email in error that called him out as someone who lacked potential for ...

Motivate: goad, impel, drive, incite, persuade. According to Marketdata Enterprises, Motivational Speakers in the U.S. alone, took home more than $1 billion in 2016. Motivational quotes abound on ...

What are the key personal attributes that can transform managers into leaders and good leaders into great ones? In the new book, Leading Well (Major Street Publishing $34.95), CEO of the Institute of ...

Leadership training is essential to develop managers who can lead your company to success. The wide range of expectations and challenges faced by modern business leaders calls for an equally wide ...

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Share responsibility, remembering that as you take credit for the success, you must also share the failure. Understand that as a leader you can give authority and allow others to contribute to their ...

No matter how long your tenure as a team leader has been, you've probably seen it. Motivation can fade. Individual employees who seemed so full of life and so engaged in the job eventually settle into ...

February 24 marked the one-year anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. I’ve found it interesting to observe world leaders over the past year as they react and respond to the crisis. It’s an ...

Previously, I discussed the difference between harmful and helpful types of power. Put simply, hard styles of power can diminish self-determination, decreasing motivation and commitment. In contrast, ...