by Shelley Row | Jun 2, 2020 | communication, Decision-Making, Employee Culture, Employee Engagement, Leadership, personality profile, success
It seems like a good idea to use your existing senior staff to develop and conduct leadership training for mid and up-and-coming engineer managers. After all, you’re already paying them and they have proven leadership skills. Why not use them to train others?...
by Shelley Row | May 19, 2020 | Business Skills, communication, Decision-Making, Employee Culture, Employee Engagement, Leadership, Neuroscience, over thinking, success
Exhausted after a Day of Zoom Calls? Four Tips to Manage Your Energy in a Virtual Environment Meeting after meeting after virtual meeting. It’s exhausting. Have you noticed that meeting online all day is more exhausting than if you were meeting in person? How...
by Shelley Row | May 5, 2020 | Business Skills, communication, Decision-Making, Leadership, success
Use This Checklist to Evaluate Your Program! (agency) Trust is the currency of public agencies. You need trust to work effectively with elected leaders, to successfully argue for your agency’s funding, and to build relationships with citizens who pass judgment on your...
by Shelley Row | Apr 29, 2020 | Business Skills, communication, Decision-Making, Leadership, success
Use This Checklist to Evaluate Your Program! Your staff is working and serving clients because your organization provides an “essential” function. That’s great…for now. But you foresee a future with tighter revenue, constrained travel, and...
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 | Oct 21, 2019 | Business Skills, communication, Decision-Making, Employee Culture, Employee Engagement, Leadership, success
Our new boss arrived with an agenda and he wasn’t timid about it. It seemed that he gathered input from everyone but us. Because he was influenced by an array of people unfamiliar to us, the work environment became challenging, to say the least. Through this...
