2023 Archives
December 2023
Why One Problem Employee Can Kill Morale for Your Entire Company
By: Glenn Shepard
Category: Management
Intended Audience: Managers, HR, & Small Business Owners
Overview: No matter how tight the labor market is, you can’t afford to keep even one bad apple. Why? Because bad behavior is contagious, and it’s MORE contagious than good behavior. You’ll make a bigger mistake by firing people too late than by firing them too early.
November 2023
How to Manage Lone Wolf Employees Who Are Good at Their Job but Don’t Play Well with Others
By: Glenn Shepard
Category: Management
Intended Audience: Management & HR
Overview: Have you ever supervised employees who thought that people were just a distraction? Who always eat alone and never have lunch with coworkers? In this month’s leadership lesson, Glenn explains why this is counterproductive and what to do about it.
October 2023
Why Millionaires Don’t Paint Their
Houses… and Neither Should You If You
Want to Be a Millionaire
By: Glenn Shepard
Category: Time Management
Intended Audience: Management & HR
Overview: Have you ever read Glenn’s favorite personal finance book, “The Millionaire Next Door”? In it, the author describes a strange experience of visiting a famous painter who was having someone else paint his house. In this program, Glenn explains why millionaires are not “DIY’ers”, and you shouldn’t be either.
September 2023
The New App More Addictive than TikTok, Porn, & Amazon
By: Glenn Shepard
Category: Management
Intended Audience: Management & HR
Overview: The NIH reports that children don’t even understand that the concept of Delayed Gratification exists until around age 4 – 5. After that, it takes years for some people to master the concept. But now there’s a yet another new app that’s enticing grown adults to revert back to their early childhood where Immediate Gratification was all they knew.
August 2023
Why There’s No Such Thing as
“Freedom of Speech” at Work
By: Glenn Shepard
Category: Management
Intended Audience: Management, HR & Small Business Owners
Overview: Have you heard about the war of words between Jason Aldean and Sheryl Crow? People can be as controversial as they want on social media. But when it comes to the workplace, you have to set limits if you don’t want to lose good employees.
July 2023
The Great Resignation is over, but the new thing is Quiet Quitting
By: Glenn Shepard
Category: Management
Intended Audience: Everyone
Overview: The good news is that “The Great Resignation” has ended. The bad news is that the new fad is “Quiet Quitting”. It even has its own TikTok handle at www.tiktok.com/tag/quietquitting. Listen to this program to fight back.
June 2023
Why Low Self Esteem Can Cost You $28,000 a Year
By: Glenn Shepard
Category: Success
Intended Audience: Everyone
Overview: A groundbreaking study at the University of Messina found that blue collar workers with low self esteem make $7,000 a year less, and white collar workers with low self esteem make $28,000 a year less. In this program, Glenn explains a 30 second “shortcut” to building higher self-esteem.
By: Glenn Shepard
Category: Management
Intended Audience: Management & HR only
Overview: What would you say to an employee who took your car on a 258 mile “joyride” while you were on vacation? Or for paying their personal electric bill with a company check? On this program, we’ll look at 4 simple things you can do to prevent things like this from happening to you.
April 2023
Helping Employees with a Victim
Mentality Get Over Self Pity
By: Glenn Shepard
Category: Management
Intended Audience: Management & HR Only
Overview: Ever had an employee who always feel sorry for him or herself? In this program, Glenn explains how to help people who always see themselves as the victim of one thing or another to move on.
March 2023
Is It Too “Stalkerish” to Check Your Employee’s Social Media Accounts?
By: Glenn Shepard
Category: Management
Intended Audience: Management & HR Only
Overview: Do you pay severance pay to employees who leave? Ever had an employee sign a “Quid Pro Quo” to protect you legally? If not, listen to why attorneys do this when they fire people.
February 2023
Do Your Employees Have to Respect You? The Answer Might Surprise You
By: Glenn Shepard
Category: Leadership
Audience: Managers & Supervisors
Overview: Are you old enough to remember the AC/DC song “You Shook me All Night Long”? Spoiler Alert… If you are, this lesson might ruin that song for you 🙂
January 2023
The Amazing Power of “STICK-TO-IT-IVENESS”
By: Glenn Shepard
Category: Motivation
Audience: Everyone
Overview: Do you know someone who never lived up to their potential because they never stuck with anything long enough? If you do, play month’s Leadership Lesson for them. In it, we look at the AMAZING power of “STICK–TO–ITIVENESS” catapulted everyone from Thomas Edison to Tom Brady from “unknown loser” status to legends that changed the world.
