Key stakeholders: Understand your customers
As we travel through the stakeholders, your customers end up being one of the most powerful categories. And the length of this list might surprise you! Depending on your job, […]
As we travel through the stakeholders, your customers end up being one of the most powerful categories. And the length of this list might surprise you! Depending on your job, […]
Let’s start off this series of “stakeholders” by exploring your suppliers. People can struggle with this category, so let’s explore it a bit more. Let’s suppose that you’re in marketing […]
I’d like to spend some articles here talking about all the different people that you work with. Why? Because it’s crucial to developing the kinds of relationships that will help […]
You’re incredibly busy, I understand. You have more stuff to do than you’ve ever had before. Reading. Responding. Figuring out. Taking calls. Emailing. Before you know it, you’ve worked 10 […]
Everyone’s a leader. No, really! We often assign the term to people who are in recognized positions of power and authority, but that weakens the term. If someone is going […]
I had a chance to work with over a hundred people last week in workshops around career planning. The theme of each session was on developing your own resilient career, […]
Is everyone out to get you? Really? I ask, because it seems that we sure act this way a lot. Our boss announces something, and instantly we’re trying to figure […]
I had a chance to attend a fantastic workshop this morning, led by the incomparable Gus Lee. Never heard of him? He’s a leader in challenging people to find and […]
In setting up my new business, one of the toughest challenges so far is picking a company name. I’ve been (kind of) working on that for a month now, but […]
As a manager, if you focus on the employee’s agenda when you’re coaching him or her, how do you ensure that the company’s agenda is being addressed? Let’s focus on […]