What do you do when encouragement doesn’t work?

You have an employee who’s struggling. You’re frustrated. You’ve tried all the usual methods to engage them, including encouragement. And your encouragement doesn’t work. What do you do? There is a secret formula to making encouragement work. Here it is…. It must be absolutely, positively, genuine. It must come from a motivation of love and … More What do you do when encouragement doesn’t work?

Kind Strength

Leaders must be strong. Their leadership must be sure, steady, certain, determined, and fierce. Their confidence needs to exceed the confidence of anyone else in the organization. We want to follow the strong, not the weak. We want our leaders to forge ahead, climb mountains, cross dry deserts, conquer opposition, break through barriers, and be … More Kind Strength

Trying too hard

I don’t know about you, but I tend to try too hard. I get something in my mind that I think should happen and I begin to push and push. I exert all my emotional energy on a goal and try to arrange everything to meet that goal. And I become quickly dissatisfied if progress … More Trying too hard