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5 Ways to Find Cheap Training
Budgets are a reality, but so is the need to bring your team members up to speed. It’s no longer an option to ignore an employee’s lack of skill as that creates buyers or customers who will go...
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3 Reasons Your Best Employees Resist Learning in Mandatory Training
Telling an employee they must attend a training class, sets up an immediate barrier to learning. Yes, you want them there but you’re far better off enticing their attendance and here’s why…and even HOW...
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3 Questions to Ask BEFORE You Promote Them
We’ve seen an uptick in training requests recently and have been talking a good bit about helping managers to be not only promoted, but also prepared…but what do you do BEFORE you promote those...
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Leaders: Get Out of Your Own Way Fast in These 4 Areas
If leadership were easy, everyone would be doing it. And while everyone CAN lead, those who lead WELL have done something others are not willing to do: they got out of their own way. It’s tricky, but...
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Contagious Companies Celebrates 10 Year Anniversary!
(Orlando, FL) March 18 – Headed by internationally known speaker, Monica Wofford, Contagious Companies is celebrating their tenth year in business this month. Contagious Companies, Inc. is a WBENC...
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“Gen Y, Oh My!” Interesting stats on leading them
“Generation Y, commonly called the Millennials, is the largest generation in US history and already represents over 25% of the US workforce. Coming of age at the tail end of the deep recession, they...
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Improve Workplace Communication with these Books on Listening for Your Leaders
As a follow up on the post from Monday on how leaders listening better will improve workplace communication, here are a few additional resources to help you and your leaders continue to improve...
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5 Ways a “Dealing with Difficult People” Training Class Will Help Your Leaders
Leaders deal with difficult people daily. Some they create. Some they inherit and sometimes they ARE the difficult ones. However, to deal with, reduce the impact of, and even prevent all three from...
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6 Reasons Why Clearly Identifying High Performers is Critical to Overall Work...
Why would you want all employees including high performers, to do better? Ummm… Continuing our discussion this week on identifying high performers, we addressed HOW to do this in this week’s “Monday...
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It’s Contagious! The Story of One Personal Leadership Brand and the Questions...
Are you your brand or is the brand becoming you? Wait…I’m confused. Am I the company or am I my own person? The answer to that question may seem ridiculously obvious to those in a corporate leadership...
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Why a Leader Needs a Sense of Humor
Saw a great post in LinkedIn on the need for a leader to maintain a great sense of humor. Not only will it help you stay sane but there are a number of other resources, a leaders’s ability to maintain...
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2 Questions the Boss of Bad Managers Should Ask
Following a thread on LinkedIn today, I saw an answer “Why Do We Have So Many Bad Leaders” on Leadership Think Tank worthy of emphasis. The answers range widely, but these two questions were suggested...
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5 Biggest Reasons the Wrong People Get Hired
Beyond using the “fog the mirror” test and a pulse check, this great LI article from Lou Adler sheds light on why you might inadvertently continue to hire the wrong folks. My favorite reason? Managers...
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How Can HR Show More Value?
We hear from CEOs somewhat regularly that HR is seen as a barrier or “the brakes” when fast decisions are needed in an organization. It is an interesting perspective on a valuable group and function...
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What To Do When Employees Don’t Understand You
Are you listening for what they say or listening for what you want to hear? Employees not understanding the leader’s direction or request is a common problem. It also create the common outcome of high...
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One Moment, One Page, Better Leader
The Monday Moment series began SIX years ago. Can you believe it? That means that every Monday, leaders worldwide have heard me share the Monday Moment. We’ve had more than 49000 downloads on iTunes...
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How to Lead Employees Who Lead and Those Who Lag
No matter where you learn your leadership lessons, life and my nightly dog walk is full of them. I was thinking of you last night when walking my dogs. That has got to sound odd, but I have two...
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How Microsoft, Ebola, and Oprah Teach Us Leadership
It’s true. What you read can help you learn how to lead. Leadership lessons are everywhere, if you’re paying attention. This morning’s Wall Street Journal and breaking news give us three clues....
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Startling Truths About a Leader’s Contagious Communication
It’s not ALL about how you say it. The airwaves are full of “contagious” these days. Some tragic. Some true. Yet, what a leader says and how they communicate remains something for which there is no...
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What to Do When Employee Issues Get WORSE Close to Christmas
Do you have employees who are NOT on Santa’s nice list? Some employees just are not on Santa’s nice list. You want to give them the gift of letting bad behavior slide, but don’t be fooled, as that’s...
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A Leader’s Ideal Gift To You
What is the best gift you, your very own leader, can give to you? The stockings are hung, menorah’s are lit, and you’ve checked your own list twice…to heck with St. Nick’s. It’s the holiday time and...
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Why Leadership is Rarely The Real Reason
Leadership is rarely solely to blame for whatever’s gone wrong. The question remains, will you continue to practice blame or less of the same? Photo Credit: Frank Eliason | LinkedIN When the chips are...
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A Leaders List of Thanks
Your leadership role is full of events and people for which to be grateful. What would make it on your list? As many in the United States are making their final Thanksgiving Day preparations, this week...
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Is Leadership Enough?
A brilliant mind few followed until much later in life and after death, Einstein might have agreed that having complex processes others did not understand and being somewhat of a maverick with few...
View Article5 Dangers Leaders Need to Avoid at All Costs
Let’s face it. For leaders there are questions, boxes, ideas, people, and issues to keep up with daily. Yet, this post is about dangers and avoiding them in the face of all those elements, at all...
View Article7 Ways to “Say” Happy Holidays at the Office
The holidays are here! Celebrations, office parties, and higher levels of stress will all be things added to your leadership list of things to do, but wait… which holiday do you celebrate in your...
View ArticleA Time to Rethink a Few Things
This time of year, things change. Maybe it’s the people to whom you give presents or invite for Christmas dinner. Maybe it’s the pace of work or your business. For entrepreneurs, it might be the goals,...
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Happy Anniversary
We interrupt our regularly scheduled Monday Moment to celebrate our Anniversary with you! Today, March 11, Contagious Companies, Inc. celebrates our 16th year. Our success is a direct result of your...
View ArticleWhat if You’re the New Sherriff in Town?
Good Morning and happy Monday! I’m Monica Wofford and this is your Monday Moment in what we might call the wild west. Sometimes your offices feel like the wild west, but on that note, what happens...
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