Connection Cafe

AUGUST 23, 2019

Create online resources for them: how-to videos, blog posts, answers to frequently asked questions. Being there when questions arise makes the transition more successful. Use automation to remind students about deadlines and forms. Deliver on your Promise to Educate.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 23, 2019

Insecure managers hog the credit for a job well done. Or, they hide the credit and don't give credit where credit is due. These managers are afraid to let their employees be in the limelight. Secure and successful managers talk up their employees, highlighting the good performance they've done, and are eager to give credit where credit is due.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 22, 2019

Despite the temptation to hire someone like yourself, hire someone to complement your skills --not to duplicate your skills. Managers often find it easier, more comfortable, or less threatening to hire someone with similar skills and work habits.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 21, 2019

At the next meeting you lead, don't: Hold it if the meeting will seem unnecessary to your participants. Allow attendees to use their smartphones for personal reasons. Let participants interrupt each other. Go beyond your scheduled time.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 20, 2019

Here are two of my favorite quotes from the hugely popular leadership book, Good To Great : "The good-to-great companies did not say, 'Okay, folks, let's get passionate about what we do.' Sensibly, they went the other way entirely; We should only do those things that we can get passionate about." "To

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 19, 2019

If you lead an organization that uses employee ID badges, considering using a different color or a special designation on the badges for newly hired employees for at least their first 30 days and ideally up to 60 days.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 17, 2019

Don't be the guy in the picture when an employee leaves your company. Instead, conduct exit interviews and surveys. Leigh Branham explains in his book, The 7 Hidden Reasons Employees Leave , what the most favorable conditions are for conducting the interviews and surveys.

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