The Middle Manager

Surviving & Thriving as a Leader

Category Archives: Performance

So, You Want to be a Speaker – Getting Started

So today will start my series on speaking in public.  My goal is to 1) help people get past their initial fear, and 2) then offer some things that anyone who speaks should focus on to become a better speaker.  I don’t know how many blogs will be in this series, just depends on how […]

Building a Culture of Constant Improvement

We all know we live in a very different business world than we did just a few short years ago.  Because of things like social media, improved communication, immediate feedback, and highly dynamic market forces, we need to be able to pivot and change at speeds that would dazzle our predecessors in IT. People, however, […]

Work-Life Balance

How many vacation days did you use last year?  If you’re a typical employee in the USA, it’s likely you ended the year with more than half of your time unused.  Studies show that 91% of companies provide their employees with vacation time, but nearly 60% of the time more than half of the vacation […]

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