Our answer is don’t! Do everything you can to allow them to take a much needed break. Even though during summer it can feel like a third of your team is always on vacation, you can still be productive – perhaps even more so. Between long weekends, holidays, shorter...
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End Department Division
How do you pull together a company where every department or office works in their own individual world and has their own individual objectives, vision and goals? Can different departments be aligned to work with each other rather than against each other? It seems...
Getting Your Team to Share Your Vision
As an entrepreneur or executive, you no doubt have a particular vision for your organization. Perhaps you've even taken the steps to put this vision into writing and shared it with your staff or asked them to weigh in on it as you were developing it. But have they...
7 Things I Learned from Competing in “Dancing with the Stars”
Congratulations to Sojourn Partner's Heather Ramsey for winning this year's "Dancing with the Stars" competition to support the Manchester Community Music School. When asked what she learned from this experience, this is what she had to say: 1. It’s Not As Easy As...
Setting Up Systems for a Successful 2015
Did you know that the average American gives up on their New Year’s resolutions within the first 10 days of January each year and that only 8% of people actually achieve the goals they set their sights on at the end of the year? Since many of us make resolutions to...
How Do We Know When Change Needs To Happen?
Who says something has to last forever? It’s our natural thought process to stay with something because: it is safe, it is what we know and what “we have always done”. My belief is that things will work for a while but then it is natural to need to change it up. Yet...
Building Safety
To really connect with another person we have to feel safe. One would think safety is easy to build but each person has had experiences in their past that make it difficult to authentically have. So what can you do when you feel like someone isn’t letting you in? ...
Goals: Staying on Track
Being “in” the day-to-day prevents us from seeing the greater truth, the overall vision – what is really going on for us. This happens to both individuals and teams. Being blinded in our “stuff” prevents us from being able to become strategic and thus can slow or...
Recognizing Others
One of the biggest things you can do is to recognize another person. By recognizing them, I mean that you really see what value they bring to the project, the team and the world. One of our purest needs is to feel appreciate for what we are contributing. Once we feel...
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