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10 Ideas for New Endings
This week’s quick list* is a companion piece to our Quote of the Week for Groundhog Day.
Botches can send us underground, hiding out with the hogs…keeping us from shining the way that we could. It could be a botched presentation. Or conversation. Or relationship. Or deadline. Or a missed goal. Or wayward resolution.
Some people worry more than they should.
Some people should worry more than they do. Like Phil, the weatherman (played by Bill Murray) in Groundhog Day Read more
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Happy Appreciate a Dragon Day
Happy Appreciate a Dragon Day.
If you don’t know any actual dragons to appreciate, perhaps you could recognize people who recently slayed a dragon.
“Slaying a dragon” to mean overcoming a huge, scary obstacle, or making a big, overwhelming goal, or making a big sale, etc.
How to recognize dragon slayers? Read more
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Goals, Clutter & Clean Off Your Desk Day
Ahhh- to cut through the clutter and chaos. To simplify. To be able to focus on priorities. And pursue goals.
A clean desk is a good way to start and any day is a good day for that.
Monday is especially good since it’s National Clean Off Your Desk Day - celebrated the second Monday of January.
But how is a busy person with lots of projects supposed to get and keep a clean desk?
There’s always the approach Nora helped Holly take in one of my favorite episodes of Brothers & Sisters. Read more
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Happy National Humbug Day
December 21 is National Humbug Day.
You got it…let this be a time to let everyone gripe A LITTLE…blow off some holiday steam.
Keep a time limit.
Take the gripes seriously.
Take notes.
And promise to follow up on the gripes.
Great for morale, productivity and overall performance
More tips in How to Have a Great Gripe Session.
December 21 is also National Look on the Bright Side.
Yes…same day, same meeting.
After all the griping…ask everyone to “look on the bright side” of the situation.
Make sure they understand this is not to diminish the concerns mentioned earlier, but to involve them in a potential problem-solving process that can be looked at in more depth if necessary after the holiday.
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10 Holiday Messages for Leaders Everywhere
Use these tips and tools on a wide range of topics – safety, marketing, networking, sales, service – to help you and your team during the holiday season and beyond.
All of which will help morale and productivity. Yours and your team’s.
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Coming soon…National Cat Herder’s Day
It’s a favorite of Business Class readers!
Get more details about National Cat Herder’s Day
so that you’re ready to celebrate on December 15.
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10 Ways to Boost Morale & Productivity in December
Note from Jan: The foundation of good morale and productivity is hiring the right people, give them clear roles, responsibilities, expectations and goals. And give them training and coaching which includes feedback, direction, support and recognition from a trusted manager or coach.
If these aren’t in place, this article is NOT for you. Instead, use some of the other resources on this site and in our Holiday Halls, to help you get your roles and goals clear and get everyone headed in the right direction.
If you do have all of those things in place, and want some non-holiday oriented ways to put this quote to work, you will find them here. Read more
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10 Ways to Be a Stronger Leader This Year
So maybe it’s not the best year ever…
but you want to make the most of what you have, right?
Which means protecting whatever revenue and earnings you have; doing your best to push through as many end-of-year deals as possible;
laying groundwork for next year; and if you still have a team, taking extra good care of them (and yourself) during December.
These things won’t happen if you let December craziness take charge. You must do so instead. Read more
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10 Quotes for Thanksgiving
A regular feature at Business Class is 10 by 10 on Tuesday. It could be 10 questions, 10 reasons, 10 lists, 10 excuses. This week it’s 10 quotes – some serious, some funny, some cynical – that provide 10 reasons to say thanks out loud or in person.
Choose one or more to share at the start or close of a meeting. Even better, get more value, including a boost to morale and productivity by using in conjunction with Read more
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