by Scott Anderson | Feb 24, 2016 | Workplace Issues
If you haven’t read the story yet, I recommend you do. For a super brief version, a disgruntled employee (who happens to be a millennial) of Yelp wrote an angry open letter to the company’s CEO and published it on Medium. Spoiler alert: she was fired. But I’m not here...
by Scott Anderson | Feb 19, 2016 | Personal Enrichment
The way we work is changing. In order to stay in front of those changes and thrive in your professional and personal life, it’s important for you to know where you stand. Though the future of work doesn’t necessarily mean your job will be taken by a robot, it does...
by Scott Anderson | Feb 17, 2016 | Leadership, Playing Big
Great leaders tend to listen more than they speak. They also tend to ask questions more often than they pontificate about the right or wrong way to do things. They have discovered that rather than telling people how things should be done, it tends to stick much better...
by Scott Anderson | Feb 12, 2016 | Workplace Issues
I have written about how to make great hires, how to build great relationships with your employees, and how to keep your best talent around. But to this point, I have avoided the considerably more unpleasant topic of firing an employee. This recent article in HBR...
by Scott Anderson | Feb 10, 2016 | Personal Enrichment, Playing Big
In a recent Entrepreneur article by Travis Bradberry, he points out something that my coaching clients often have to be reminded about in the beginning: likability and perceived greatness are not pre-loaded into us like software into a computer or phone. Rather,...
by Scott Anderson | Feb 5, 2016 | Personal Enrichment, Playing Big
For entrepreneurs and solopreneurs, finding a work-life balance that feels equitable on both sides is often a great challenge. Below is an email sharing some valuable perspective on this very topic from coaching dynamo Matthew Kimberley. It is reposted here with his...
by Scott Anderson | Feb 3, 2016 | Leadership, Personal Enrichment
As this article in the Huffington Post points out, we typically get promoted for our technical skills rather than our leadership ones. Some leadership skills are innate but for the most part, excellence in leadership is gained through a wide variety of accumulated...
by Scott Anderson | Jan 29, 2016 | Personal Enrichment
For many of us, the winter months can take an emotional toll. Though the days are finally getting longer again, you may still find yourself struggling with what many people call seasonal affective disorder. But, don’t get caught up in all that. If you happen to feel...
by Scott Anderson | Jan 27, 2016 | Leadership, Workplace Issues
The efficacy of employee surveys for the majority of companies has been on a downward slide for some time now. For many organizations, frustration and futility are the primary associations with these annual or bi-annual surveys. That’s because the dominant perception...
by Scott Anderson | Jan 22, 2016 | Personal Enrichment, Playing Big
Today, even a great job doesn’t come with the guaranteed job security that has been generally afforded to previous generations of workers. The fight for top talent is fierce and employees can no longer get comfortable in their positions and wait for their pension to...
