by Joanie Connell | Dec 1, 2022 | Emotional Intelligence, Employee Engagement and Retention, Empowered, REAL Life Skills, Resilient
Give yourself a gift this holiday season. Read this blog. I promise you will learn how to feel less stress and more happiness. “’Tis the season to be jolly,” they say. But let’s be honest. It’s not always easy to stay positive, especially when there’s conflict...
by Joanie Connell | May 15, 2020 | Blog, Employee Engagement and Retention, Remote Management
Help! My employees are experiencing quarantine fatigue! My employees are disengaging! How do I motivate my team remotely? Shortly after school went online, my daughter said to me, “They’ve taken away all the good stuff from school and made the bad stuff even...
by Joanie Connell | Jan 8, 2020 | Blog, Leadership
There’s so much pressure to perform these days that it’s tempting to keep control over projects and minimize room for failure. Why do managers resist delegating? “They’re not ready.” This is a typical reason leaders give to keep doing the work themselves instead...
by Joanie Connell | Sep 13, 2018 | Blog, Emotional Intelligence, Technical Leaders
What’s negative one squared (-12)? If you learned math in school before 2009, you probably said “1.” If you learned math once the Common Core was implemented, you would say the answer is “-1.” A friend of mine spent an entire 4-day weekend visit with...
by Joanie Connell | Apr 7, 2015 | Blog, Leadership, Remote Management
A colleague told me just today that a client paid for him to travel to have face-to-face meetings because they believed the results were much higher quality than phone meetings. After he flew all the way across the country for a few hours of meetings, he said it was...