I have been lucky enough to experience an “a-ha moment” lately. I did know it from before, but I have not been aware enough to put the knowledge into good use.
A while back I joined David Zinger’s Online community; The Employee Engagement Network. All I did was to register and create a profile. I was hoping that it would create more readers to my blog. But I was wrong, deadly wrong, until I had an eye-opening dialogue with Craig Althof about online networking. He said:”The more I think about it, the more participation / contribution on the EEN and other …

I was just asked a simple question; how do I become a leader? The answer on the other hand is not easy. But I will try to provide some useful hints to aspiring leaders out there, with this 10 step to becoming a leader list.
Born to be wild
Some are natural born leaders, at least some claim so. I do not agree on this fact. Some do naturally have many leadership qualities, but it can all be learned. Some have natural authority by their very presence in the room, and some are deeply respected by their knowledge. There are a lot …

“I want to be a leader” – Have you ever thought that it would be cool to be the boss? Is a leadership career tempting? Do you wonder what it takes to become a leader? I meet people that say that they have leadership ambitions all the time, but very few show their ambitions. I want to give you an advice. Leadership is a choice, and you can choose to follow my advice or not.

Do you as a leader know why you should know the values of your employees? It will help you succeed in human relations with your staff. It will help you to find rewards and what will keep them safe and secure. The values of a person are like the tag on a plant telling you how to handle it. Does Susie need a lot of positive feedback? Does John need to know that his job is safe? Does Eric need a long term plan? All these answers and more will be answered if you know their values.
Here is how you …

I personally hate post-it, these small yellow sticky pieces of paper that drown your cubicle. People tend to write small cryptic messages on them without signing them, so you can trace the sinner. Never write anything really important on a post-it note, it will most likely stick to some strange by passer, the back of a book or on the side of a bag, and strangely wander off into the wind. And a month later it finds its way back to you and you end up banging your head into the keyboard because you forgot the lunch with your boss, …

Do you feel like not going to work in the mornings? Is it hard to motivate yourself to repeating the same crap routine work over and over again? Why so negative? If your work sucks, your boss suck, your co-workers suck and your company suck, you might be heading into a motivational valley in the very near future. This could be a challenge to turn around as everybody else has a problem, or not you? Or am I wrong?
I believe that there is no such thing as a bad company, a bad leader, bad management, bad co-workers, bad hair days… …