We recently attended the Agency Management Institute (AMI) Conference for Owners & Leaders in Chicago and were asked to lead roundtables on the subject of “Mentoring Your Team to be Leaders." About 18...
Mentoring Your Team to be Leaders
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Management Articles
5 Steps to a Profitable and Sustainable Exit
Align your talent development with your organization's future leadership needs. Next week Sue and I will be in Denver as the main sponsor of a national conference for 275 Exit Planning professionals from around...
4 Questions to Ask Before Calling Your Recruiter
Planning for growth or adding new services inevitably leads to “we need more people!”. But before you dig out those job advertisements, or call your favorite recruiter, ask yourself these 4 critical questions: 1....
Recently Published
This article written for Maine Biz discusses how to gain a competitive advantage from the new federal overtime rules .
Onward Nation Interview
Stephen Woessner, host of Onward Nation, recently interviewed Art Boulay. The interview is focused on “recipes for success” learned in life and business
Retention
Because a manager’s role is to guide and evaluate the employee, the manager’s day-to-day behavior can be a potential obstacle to retention of top talent.
Back to Zero
Success is the enemy of change. Change agents, typically considered to be outsiders and upstarts, bring new ideas to the table which can take an industry back to zero. Those who were successful under the old rules do not even recognize the rules have been changed. Because they have no preconceptions of what a “watch” should look like, change agents have the advantage.