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 | 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 25, 2020 | business, Business Skills, communication, Employee Culture, Leadership
photo credit: rawpixel The world has shifted and here we are – at home – working. Having worked out of my home office for years now, I can say with assurance that there is a difference between working at home for a couple of days a week and working at home for an...
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....