by Dr. Z | Jan 21, 2014 | Incentive, Leadership, Learning, Motivation, Organizational Development, Uncategorized
How can you motivate your employees to do the best work in the least amount of time when you’re working from a limited budget? This is a question that every manager has pondered since the emergence of the first formal organization. But there’s good news on...
by Dr. Z | Jan 15, 2014 | Inspiration, Motivation, Uncategorized
As we begin the New Year, most of us have set personal and professional goals to achieve over the next 12 months. Here are a few thoughts as you begin your quest to self-fulfillment: Losers quit when they fail. Winners fail until they succeed. The KSA...
by Dr. Z | Jun 26, 2013 | Uncategorized
“These headphone-wearing, disrespectful, entitled idiots…well not idiots, but kids, they’re just kids.” This was how an upper level manager at a national construction company described his Generation Y coworkers. Generation Y, or the Millennials, are born between the...
by Dr. Z | Jun 11, 2013 | Conflict Coaching, Learning, Understanding Conflict
If you disagree with someone, how do you know when to rip off the band-aid or when to make a constructive criticism sandwich? People who rip off band-aids are always blunt and to the point with their ideas, whereas our sandwich makers prefer to provide compliments and...
by Dr. Z | Jun 9, 2013 | Learning, Organizational Development, Time Management
“I don’t have time.” How many times do you say this throughout your week? With an overly saturated media environment, the challenging demands of work, family obligations, and socializing, there is little time left to do anything. The problem I here repetitively from...
