The ability to select, motivate, develop, engage and retain top people is critical to a company’s success. If you want to build a company where people love to work you have to know how to hire and keep the right people. Great companies and managers start with optimistic, change-resilient, and committed people whose values fit the workplace culture. Retaining peak performing people involves creating a healthy work environmen...

Managers determine how people experience work: joy versus despair, enthusiasm versus complaints, and well-being and resilience versus stress. Most managers want to be good at what they do, yet many lack the requisite coaching skills that facilitate positive action and behavior.As a manager who strives to do help employees do great work, you may need to develop your coaching skills. Coaching skills can help you and your pe...

Effective coaching is a major key to improving business performance. Working Resources San Francisco Bay Area Executive Coaching focuses on the qualities of good leadership and improved business results. Executive Coaching is comprised of a series of structured, one-on-one interactions between a coach and an executive, aimed at enhancing the executive's performance in two areas: • Individual personal performance • Individ...

One of my CEO San Francisco Bay Area executive coaching clients is working with her executive leadership team to create an organizational culture that leverages employees’ talents and strengths. I am coaching her to become more effective at focusing on strengths and values helping leaders at all levels of the organization become more fully engaged and productive. The CEO knows that for the organization to thrive depends o...

Good bosses play a critical role in helping people achieve success at work. It could be the most important and rewarding role you will ever play in business.My coaching clients repeatedly tell me stories of how a good boss removed obstacles so that they could get their work done with minimal hassle. I could experience my client’s level of engagement soar when they felt their boss had their back.Stanford University manag...

Bosses determine how happy and productive people are at work. They influence employee well-being and stress resilience. Most bosses want to do the right thing and support their people to achieve team and organizational goals.As a boss who strives to do great work, you may need to be aware of and model the traits of a good boss. Good bosses share similar characteristics. In 2009 Google (the company, not the search engine pr...

Exceptional bosses know how to motivate people tapping into their intrinsic motivation. They set goals that empower people and builds confidence. Big audacious goals can initially sound great, but can backfire when people fail to achieve milestones resulting in a de-motivated workforce.As a boss who strives to do great work, you may need to adjust your thinking about goal setting. Small wins over time can add up to tremen...

Good bosses are hard working and resilient. They keep employees inspired in good times and bad. Failure is seen as bumps on the way to winning and success.One of my Chief People Officer executive coaching clients models true grit. She taps into the creative DNA of employees by helping people weather failure and instilling optimism that success is just around the corner. She believes in her people and their shared purpose....

Bosses determine how people experience work. They help create a workplace culture and climate: joy versus despair, enthusiasm versus complaints, and well-being versus stress. Most bosses want to excel at what they do, yet many lack the requisite mindset that precedes positive action and behavior. As a boss who strives to do great work, you may need to shift your thinking. The beliefs and assumptions you hold about your...

Stanford University management professor Robert I. Sutton, PhD, author of the New York Times bestseller The No Asshole Rule, knows about bosses. He has received thousands of emails about the bad ones since the 2007 publication of that title. In his most recent book, Good Boss, Bad Boss: How to Be the Best...and Learn from the Worst (Business Plus, 2010) Sutton focuses on what it takes to be a better boss.Bosses determine ho...