Any type of change brings challenges unique to managers. It could be a highly valuable employee leaving, a change in market demands, or even moving to a new office space, but one constant that always comes with change is stress. One of the skills great managers possess is reducing the stress and pain that comes with change. Below are three ways to reduce change-related stress. 1. Be Positive Frame the change in a way that highlights the positives of the situation. Instead of

The movie Forrest Gump used his character to tell us things we already know yet don’t fully understand. Listening is one of those things. We think we know a lot about listening, and maybe we do know a lot about the WHY and the WHAT of listening. But more importantly, we don’t see HOW our listening behaviors and skills affect others. Our bus-sized blind spots (see our blog, Is There Danger In Your Blind Spot) prevent us from seeing things we don’t want to see. We usually see

When sales and marketing are out of sync, resources are squandered, opportunities are missed and the competition thrives.