by Lisa Brownlee | Mar 26, 2020 | Effective Management, Professional Development
COVID-19 has introduced varying levels of crises into our lives in recent weeks. What are we to do when we find ourselves in crisis? Healthcare systems and workers are being pushed to extremes with inadequate supplies and equipment. Big businesses are having to...
by Lisa Brownlee | Mar 4, 2020 | Effective Management, Employee Management
Setting a new safety record, streamlining a process, earning record profits, winning the “Supplier of Choice” award – all of these are significant achievements to celebrate and build upon. But often, after the confetti is swept off the floor from the company party, in...
by Lisa Brownlee | Feb 2, 2020 | Effective Management, Professional Development
Groundhog Day is February 2nd, “celebrated” since 1887. We await the emergence of a groundhog from his burrow and predict whether we can expect more winter or an early spring based on the visibility of his shadow. Interestingly, PunxsutawneyPhil (the groundhog), is...
by Lisa Brownlee | Jan 27, 2020 | Effective Management, Employee Management, Professional Development
I recently blogged about goal setting and action planning – where to go and how to get there. But goals and action plans only take us so far – we have to do the right things to make progress. And then, as we are “doing”, how do we know that our progress is having the...
by Lisa Brownlee | Jan 20, 2020 | Effective Management, Employee Management, Professional Development
How do we move from Aspiration to Action? In the wise words of the Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King, Jr., “If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.” We honor the work,...
by Lisa Brownlee | Jan 13, 2020 | Effective Management, Professional Development, TMDC
Since 1990, organizations around the world have used the Team Manager Development Center (TMDC) to provide their employees with individualized, comprehensive developmental coaching in twelve critical leadership competencies. That includes MANY of you who are reading...
