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TIGERS Success Series 2017 Year End Blog: Management, Leadership and HR Issues

2017 is almost over.  24 days to be exact and we hope you have accomplished much in this year. In today’s blog, we are providing a digest of management, leadership and HR issues that we have written about this year. In addition to this management, leadership and HR issues digest blog, we have been rolling […]

Firing Well While Building Your Team Isn’t Mutually Exclusive

Your team members are your company’s greatest asset. It makes sense that a lot of time, effort and energy goes into finding the right candidates.  You vet them.  You hire them. You onboard them.  You train them. You know how building your team matters to your bottom line — big time. So, what do you […]

How To Strengthen Your Leadership Communication Skills

Business would come to a complete halt if it weren’t for communication. It comes in many forms including verbal communication, body language, digital communication, written communication and video.  All are ways humans communicate and how we communicate with one another is how we get things done. But without effective communication strategies that strengthen your leadership […]

Overcoming Bad Management

Sam said, “I can’t take this place anymore,” and he sent out his resume and nailed a great job.  Sam, like many workers in the US are changing companies now.  With the economic turnaround and leaders raising salaries, why are people changing jobs? The reason Sam provided was that he had no way of overcoming […]

Strategies to Implement for Improved Team Productivity

Most workers would probably describe themselves as competent in their positions. Interesting enough, though, if you think you are highly competent you likely aren’t as competent as you believe yourself to be. The reason is because competency is relative. While you may be relatively competent in some tasks, you are also relatively less competent in […]

The Importance of Respect in Employee Engagement

Employee engagement is an essential component of a successful organization.  Higher engagement levels lead to lower turnover rates and higher productivity and profitability. Engagement levels of U.S. employees reached a new high of 34.1 percent in March, according to research from Gallup. Engagement levels had been hovering around 32.5 percent in January and February before […]

TIGERS® Success Series 2015 Management, Leadership, and HR Issues Blog Recap

The TIGERS® Success Series has been busy in 2015, and we’re looking forward to more success in 2016. Part one of the 2015 four-part recap series kicked off last week with all of the 2015 articles in the Polls, Research, and Surveys category. Articles in this category focused on important leadership and employee topics, such as […]

Team Building Strategies to Hire and Develop Great Managers

The best managers are those who possess an innate talent to lead, according to the findings of a recent Gallup poll. The survey, titled State of the American Manager: Analytics and Advice for Leaders , strives to pinpoint the qualities that great managers possess that set them apart. The TIGERS Success Series blog regularly publishes articles […]

Management Inefficiencies Drain Productivity

Ask most managers if they believe their work is efficient and they will answer, “No!” Managers are spending almost two days a week performing unnecessary administrative tasks leading to inefficiencies that are draining productivity. This is according to a new Management Study. The report produced by  ServiceNow resulted from surveying nearly 1,000 U.S. and U.K. […]