All Posts Tagged With: "People Skills"

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Making Meetings Count (Leadership According to C)

My husband, whom I will call C, holds a leadership position today — and he has held similar positions during much of his career. He typically gets high ratings on his leadership skills from his supervisors and employees alike. Everyday when I ask him what he did at work today, he says, “I had a [...]

30Jul2010 | Jo Ellen Roe | 0 comments | Continued
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Leadership According to C

My husband, whom I will call C, holds a leadership position today — and he has held similar positions during much of his career. He typically gets high ratings on his leadership skills from his supervisors and employees alike. Today, I am going to ask him a few questions about leadership and report what he [...]

30Jun2010 | Jo Ellen Roe | 0 comments | Continued
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Cheers for Blomberg!

I watched Michael Blomberg, the mayor of New York, on Morning Joe this morning, while pedaling my exercise bike.  I saw good leadership and excellent people skills in action. The news people at the table praised Blomberg to the skies for managing New York effectively in a trying economic/cultural time. He would have none of [...]

19Apr2010 | Jo Ellen Roe | 0 comments | Continued
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Are You a Good Boss?

This article from CNN Careers (which came to me via Twitter) describes what lots of people think makes a good boss. Not surprisingly, some of the most valued qualities show up as actions: Showing respect Being available for consultation Offering constructive criticism (in a kind way) Making suggestions Being flexible Keeping employees informed Being available [...]

10Feb2010 | Jo Ellen Roe | 0 comments | Continued
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Alan Mulally: a Leader to Admire

I really admire Alan Mulally, the CEO of Ford. He has brought Ford from the brink of destruction — and he did it without taking money from the government. I’m noticing more and more Fords on the road these days, and I kind of want one myself. So how did Mulally do it? The article [...]

17Sep2009 | Jo Ellen Roe | 0 comments | Continued
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Tie Expectations to Goals

In the “People Skills” portion of her book, A Dog’s Advice to Leaders, Miss Brown’s third common sense principle is “Make your expectations clear.” She chose to put this principal at the top of her list because so often, employees are NOT clear on what is expected of them, or the expectations are not grounded [...]

1Aug2009 | Jo Ellen Roe | 0 comments | Continued
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Gallup’s Guidelines Are Still Good

When I worked at a large utility company, we completed a Gallup employee engagement survey each year.  That survey is based on 12 workplace qualities that contribute most to employee engagement. Those guidelines are not new — but they are still good. Here they are, spoken from the employee’s point of view: I know what [...]

26Jul2009 | Jo Ellen Roe | 0 comments | Continued
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Flexibility is a Principled Stand

Everett Dirksen, a former senator, once said, “I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to be flexible at all times.” Miss Brown and I like this quote because it’s a statement about principles — which we believe in, as our book, A Dog’s Advice to Leaders, makes clear.  [...]

13May2009 | Jo Ellen Roe | 0 comments | Continued
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Get to Know Their Names

I watched an ad for the Easy Button (Staples) tonight that I’ve seen a number of time previously. The ad shows an administrative assistant talking about how much money she’s saved or how quickly she got some office supplies, I can’t remember which, and about how grateful her boss is.  At that moment, her boss [...]

8May2009 | Jo Ellen Roe | 0 comments | Continued
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Get a Degree in Leadership

I came across an interesting article at work this morning, about a new Master’s degree program in Leadership, offered by Boston University. I was curious to see if the program would include a focus on people skills, and I’m happy to report that it does.  Graduates of the program will have studied group and organizational [...]

4May2009 | Jo Ellen Roe | 0 comments | Continued
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