When self-direction, mastery and meaningfulness exist in your business and are supported by every leader, manager, and team member, you'll have gone a long way to developing and sustaining an engaged workforce and an improved bottom line.

Frequently in life and work, the greatest travesty is not missing one commitment, or not reaching one goal, or making one mistake. The greatest travesty is the disappointment in yourself. That unmet expectation to you, if left unaddressed, can cause an emotional spiral that impacts future commitments.

Making a difference in your business requires challenging yourself, the biggest challenge of all. Here's a peek at some of the internal dialogue when individuals and leaders fail to challenge themselves and their stakeholders.

Since a salesperson represents the value of the personal service that will be provided, what is the process in place to hire the ideal individual to do what is needed? Only by having, and then executing the process, can sales be seen as an investment and not an expense.‍

When we talk about insourcing leadership, we mean developing and strengthening your leadership team at multiple levels to create a balanced, strategic, forward-thinking standard. Undertake this evaluation to determine is you need some immediate triage.

Managers and work team leaders are increasingly looking for ways to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of key work processes. The article is intended to serve as a foundation for understanding and doing successful process improvement in any work process in any organization.

The greatest risk for leveraging technology might well be the people risk and not the technology risk. Assess your competition, and think about where you want to be in 5 years, and whether you are positioning yourself, and your company for success.

Effective change management is really about transition management aimed at bringing about successful implementation of new methods, products, policies, services, facilities or other new realities. It means managing in ways that maximize opportunities for successful change and limiting the effect of negative dynamics of transition.

The strong case for engaging employees is clearly an opportunity to rivet employees to a workplace that invites ideas, innovation and work wisdom. It should be a place where employees can go and share their ideas.

Most people grab the problem, and, in their attempt to solve it, get really wrapped around the axle. They don't see the issue from an objective point of view. Instead identify the biggest challenge you are facing and proceed to ignore it or set it aside for a bit.