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Marcia Zidle

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How Good Are Your Management Skills? Part 2

To be a great people manager, you must have an extensive set of skills –…

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How Good Are Your Management Skills? Part 1

Are you getting the best out of your team? To be a great people manager,…

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Five Strategies for Building Make a Winning Team

Teams, teams, teams. Whether you love them or loathe them, you’ll have to learn to…

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Three Strategies to Connect and Engage Employees

The attitude “I don’t give a rip about my job” happens every single day. Is…

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Do Some Rules Need To be Broken?

Stop at the red and go on the green. Wait your turn. Treat others the…

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Don’t Get Caught By the Peter Principle

A reader asked for leadership advice on this situation. “A new position, which will be…

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What Makes Teamwork Work?

Most leaders know it’s important to work with their team to define goals, but the…

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Great Managers Are Great Pioneers

Great leaders and entrepreneurs are not content merely to maintain the status quo. They are…

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Conflict: Does It Divide or Bring Together

In a recent program on conflict resolution for the marketing department of a health care…

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Decision, Decisions, Decisions

Should I take this offer or wait for a better one? Should we go with…

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Good to Great: 5 Cardinal Rules of Leadership

All managers aspire to be better leaders — but what is it that makes a…

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Engaging Your Employees For Better Business

The attitude “I don’t give a rip about my job” happens every single day. Is…

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Employee Recognition: Are You Rewarding the Right People?

As a manager, you know it’s important to recognize contributions individual team members make toward…

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Working With Different Generations

A recent encounter got me thinking about inter-generational interactions and communication in the workplace. As…

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What’s Your Hiring Batting Average?

“By and large, executives make poor hiring decision. By all accounts, their batting average is…

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Are You Fooling Yourself? Why Feedback Is Important!

In Garrison Keillor’s fictional community of Lake Wobegon, “the women are strong, the men are…

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