True superstars, who are a well-rounded in their professional experience, behavioral soft skills, technical hard skills, integrity, and are searching for meaningful opportunities stand out from others… 

Many hiring coaches are great at asking creative questions and facilitating an engaging conversation, then fail at closing the interview conversation productively…

The 2003 classic, Secondhand Lions, tells the story of an introverted young boy (Haley Joel Osment) who is sent to live with his eccentric great-uncles (Robert Duvall and Michael Caine) on a farm in Texas… 

How can you combine team bonding, education, and training?

And laughs?  Lots of laughs!

Ryan McFarland, Service Desk Manager at Vertikal6 had a solution…

Ideally, everyone has a combination of compensation they receive for showing up to work (base salary and benefits), plus incentive pay in addition to that… 

Every company should have a process to make certain every team member's conclusion of employment occurs in a manner that is positive, complete, and legally compliant… 

The Time is Worth It

Think again if you think you don’t have time to start and manage an internship program.

Interns help you hire great raw talent and fill gaps as you have turnover. 

Good People Are in Short Supply

The war for talent is real.  It is global.  It is getting progressively worse each year.

One issue is highly skilled, experienced workers are retiring in large numbers as they age.

Too often people get promoted to leadership without any training.  Then they struggle or fail.  It’s not fair.  They were good or even superstar team members previously.  

Everyone has heard of Caitlin Clark.

The young basketball phenom recently led her Iowa Hawkeyes to the NCAA title match against South Carolina. To put it lightly, she is redefining basketball and women’s sports with her superstardom.

Why do top players join one team over another?

Think about the relationships in your life.  There are reasons why you’re in each of those relationships.  It’s more than having something in common.  From family members to friends, each person in your life provides value, meaning, and security.  As an organization, you need to do the same.

As we take a break to reflect and recharge, we wanted to take a moment to celebrate our most popular episodes ever on The Manage 2 Win Podcast.

Here are 5 tactics utilized by the Zen Master, Phil Jackson to become one of the greatest winners and leaders of our lifetime. You can pick up on these methods of managing to become a more effective leader for your team.

We have carefully curated our favorite, most listened episodes from 2022, with stories ranging from hiring and sales to anarchy and empowerment.

How are you doing on your priorities? Could you improve in 2023?

According to Malcolm Gladwell, the "tipping point" is

"that magic moment when an idea, trend, or social behavior crosses a threshold, tips, and spreads like wildfire."

One of the reasons I wrote my first book, Success With People, is because of the realization that I had leadership tendencies rather than true leadership skills.

Years ago, I was speaking with a coworker about a particular manager. The coworker commented that the manager really felt he was a leader. After further consideration, we realized he was more of a competitor than a leader…

One important aspect of effective leadership is to make certain you and your people are focusing on key priorities each day. You can’t do that unless you are communicating with your team and hearing from them regularly.

The solution? A daily huddle.

Ask yourself, what are your biggest problems - employee or Client issues? Why do you have these problems?

Regardless of what they are, I’m willing to bet your problems are occurring because the experience your employees have working for you or the experience your Clients have buying and receiving services from you is not meeting or exceeding their expectations.

Years ago we worked with LaRae Que, a former FBI agent and author of the book, SECRETS of a Strong Mind (2nd edition): : How to Build Inner Strength to Overcome Life's Obstacles.

LaRae spent twenty years as an undercover and counterintelligence agent for the FBI and served as an FBI spokesperson in Northern California for four years. During her time as a counterintelligence agent, her primary goal was to identify foreign agents operating in the United States, find out what they were doing, stop them, assess their potential as an asset, and persuade them to work for the U.S. government.