Greg Schinkel Articles

Career Tips for High Achievers Who Are Feeling Stagnant - Click To Read Article
High achievers are prone to enter a time in their career where they plateau or stall. Perhaps promotions are not coming as fast and furious as they once did or in some cases, they have achieved every goal they have set and have run out of challenges. Achievers will ask themselves, "Is this all there is?" After striving for success, when success levels out, the feeling of advancement is replaced by a feeling of stagnation. This condition could be called Achievers Depression or Career Stall.

Leadership Tips to Create Greater Accountability in Your Organization - Click To Read Article
Accountability becomes mission-critical in challenging times. We need everyone in our organization to take ownership of results and make things happen. Creating an environment of accountability rests with management. Based on our 22 years of experience in organizational development and leadership training, we have discovered that managers systematically remove accountability. As a result the manager themselves ends up shouldering all the responsibility and stress. Here are some practical ideas to create greater accountability in your organization.

What Leaders Can Learn From Dog Obedience Training - Click To Read Article
It is interesting the similarities between managing the behavior of a dog and managing employee behavior. In this article we look at communication, correction, praise, structure, repetitive learning and pack behavior and how it applies to the workplace.

Leaders and Top Performers: Should You Build Your Own or Steal from a Competitor? - Click To Read Article
Is your organization better off stealing star employees from a competitor, parachuting a leader in from outside or would it be better to grow your own stars and develop leadership from within?

Leadership Tips for the Manager Who is Too Tough - Click To Read Article
Hard-nosed, high achieving managers tend to work long hours, do the work his or her team is supposed to do, be overly critical of others and not keep everyone informed. Despite this and perhaps to some degree because of it, they get great results in the short term. Unfortunately, this type of manager is often disappointed when the team is unable to achieve the desired results. The organization loses because talented subordinates may get burned out and leave or never get the development they need to become future leaders in their own right.

Leadership Tips for the Manager Who is Too Easy - Click To Read Article
The Plant Manager was becoming increasingly frustrated. His production manager was struggling to meet plant performance targets and was not getting his team to take ownership of achieving results. The initial diagnosis was that the production manager was being too easy on his team. As with most management problems, only two or three behaviours cause the majority of aggravation and frustration. Here we examine how to help an easy-going manager achieve what needs to get done.

Leadership: These Seven Challenges Help Managers Succeed - Click To Read Article
We learn best from experience. Even though the school of hard knocks is time consuming and expensive, no amount of management training can completely prepare you for what you will experience as a manager. These seven challenges and experiences help managers succeed.

Maximizing Sales and Profits in Economic Recovery - Click To Read Article
As the recovery takes hold your organization will start to do better simply because customers will start buying again. While this provides a much needed break from the angst of recession, it will hardly provide the motivation to excel. Instead challenge your organization to achieve its true potential and watch sales and profits soar.

Leaders Don't Allow Tasks to Take Time Away from People - Click To Read Article
In the short term, focusing on tasks gets things done. In the medium to long term, the task-focused manager creates even more work for themselves because they allow the team to wither and become demotivated. This causes a drop in productivity and results begin to wane. It becomes a death spiral when the manager puts even more emphasis on tasks, hoping to turn things around.

Management actions that speak louder than words - Click To Read Article
Do as I say, not as I do. This doesn't seem to work in parenting and it doesn't work in business either. Communication, despite knowing it to be a problem, continues to be a challenge in most organizations. Typical results-driven managers mistakenly feel that once they have said something once, everyone should have heard and understood the message and be willing to implement immediately. In the absence of plentiful and repeated communication, most messages in an organization are communicated non-verbally through the actions observed. In fact these non-verbal messages define the organization's culture over time. Here we identify four management actions that transmit plenty of information to the organization about what is valued and not valued.

Leadership Tips to Maintain and Cultivate Innovation and Creativity - Click To Read Article
During challenging economic times, it is easy for business owners and managers to get themselves into a funk. Business isn't as fun when sales are soft and layoffs occur. When times are good there is a tendency to get complacent, play it safe and rake in the profits. Tough times present a tremendous opportunity to innovate and be creative. Here are some ideas to maintain your innovation mojo.

Leadership Tips to Manage, Resolve and Prevent Conflict - Click To Read Article
Conflict causes a lot of stress and yet conflict is essential for effective organizations and relationships. Instead of simply managing conflict, we recommend the managers lead conflict and enjoy the tremendous gains that come from constructive conflict techniques.

Finish Strong in 2009 and Set Up for Success in 2010 - Click To Read Article
A new business season is upon us and with it comes some old challenges and some new ones. Here are three action steps to achieve a strong finish in 2009 and set your organization up for a great year in 2010.


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