Hard-Earned Business Lessons

Have you ever been frustrated by leaders or people who rank higher in your company not understanding the emotional intelligence consequences of their decisions or how they communicate to the group? Unfortunately, most of my experience and observations state that this is a pretty commonplace occurrence. I'd like to dive into the ethos of that a bit in the following. I think that it's important to understand the psyche of the people who may be bothering you with their behavior so that you might better manage how you react to and interact with those people. Let's start with entrepreneurs and executive-level folks because they have the burden of position and are therefore the easiest to target with analysis. For these people, in many cases, work is life and business is passion. It may be that you do not share their passion and that you would rather prioritize your time on family, sport, or a hobby that you really like. Probably work is just a means to an end for you. This might...

General topics are all well and good but I have decided to make some posts more in the vein of management guides in an attempt to transfer some of my hard-won knowledge to anyone it may benefit. I don’t know everything and always strive to learn more so this isn’t me saying that I have all of the answers. This is me highlighting what I do know so hopefully some of you may skip these steps and get straight into good practices. I’ve made some of these mistakes before through ignorance but it doesn’t mean you have to!     I always like to say that how we start something influences how we finish with it. That is always the case be it with client relationships, practice for sports, or onboarding employees. With this thought in mind, the following aims to provide you a guide for how to onboard your employees as a manager. Presumably, you were involved in the hiring of this new employee or you had the ultimate say and approved them. Hopefully you had the chance to interview t...