by Dave Clough | Oct 14, 2016 | Company Growth, Talent Management
HR managers still have a bad rap in many companies. They are viewed as overhead, a necessary expense to keep employees informed and give them a contact for personal issues that don’t affect company revenue. While this may be true at many businesses, top rated...
by Dave Clough | Aug 4, 2016 | Best Practices, Blog
Communication is at the core of all that we do as human beings. While verbal interaction may seem to come naturally, it is a rich and complex process. Communication requires us to be aware of and tuned into thousands of data points from nonverbal cues to gestures, and...
by Dave Clough | Jul 13, 2016 | Best Practices, Blog
Raise your hand if you like performance reviews. No? No one likes the annual performance review: The employee doesn’t like to write a self-review The manager doesn’t want to write about the employee’s performance The face to face conversation on the past year’s...
by Dave Clough | Jul 5, 2016 | Blog, Company Growth, Talent Management
I recently gave a special presentation at the Middlesex West Chamber of Commerce. Business Education Seminar: Staff Management This seminar covered assessing staff strengths and capabilities, motivating staff and staff performance assessments and reviews. Watch the...
by Dave Clough | Jun 8, 2016 | Blog, Team Management
“It isn’t the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it’s the pebble in your shoe.” – the late Muhammed Ali on perseverance, paraphrasing a similar quote from the early 1900s. Ali was the symbol of perseverance in the 1970s, coming back to recapture the...
by Dave Clough | Jun 3, 2016 | Best Practices, Blog
Fast Company recently posted an article about “New Unconventional Leadership Styles.” The author makes the case that these styles are intentional, but I think it's difficult to learn a particular style if you don’t already have a natural leaning that way. Director of...
