by Shelley Row | Apr 13, 2020 | Business Skills, communication, Decision-Making, Employee Culture, Employee Engagement, Leadership
Photo credit: Aleksandr Davydov This is the fourth newsletter based on the Over-Thinkers Guide to Working at Home Effectively. You can find the original guide here. Each week, we’ve written more information on one of the topics in the guide. This week’s...
by Shelley Row | Apr 6, 2020 | Business Skills, communication, Decision-Making, Employee Culture, Employee Engagement, Leadership
I bet you have been on more virtual meetings in the last couple of weeks than ever before. Locked in the house avoiding COVID-19, we’re all working on virtual meeting platforms. Take Zoom, for example, the company added more users in the first two months of 2020...
by Shelley Row | Mar 31, 2020 | business, Business Skills, communication, Employee Culture, Employee Engagement
Particularly for those of us who work on technical projects, it’s tempting to use the time working from home to focus project work; however, as a manager, your staff need your attention now more than ever. Maybe you supervise highly technical people who enjoy...
by Shelley Row | Mar 20, 2020 | business, Business Skills, Decision-Making, Employee Engagement
Whether your technical expertise is in engineering (like mine), law, finance, technology or science, we technical folks don’t have good reputations as managers. When a technically accomplished person is promoted into management, suddenly the old skills that made us...
by Shelley Row | Feb 19, 2020 | communication, Decision-Making, Employee Culture, Employee Engagement, Leadership, success
What’s your leadership philosophy? What’s your leadership philosophy? I’ve asked that question to interview candidates and it has been asked of me. Frequently, the candidate is stumped as was I the first time. Don’t let that question stump you....
by Shelley Row | Nov 26, 2019 | Leadership, communication, Employee Engagement
We’re learning about the ten skills that technical professionals need when they become a manager. Today let’s discuss the importance of getting to know that special person who simply knows how to get things done in the office. And it’s not simple!...
