Should a salesperson be at their desk or out of the office? Which is more effective? Which scenario brings in more money for your business? DEPENDS. Both being out of the office visiting clients and being at their desks typing up proposals/quotes generates money for your business. What’s crucial is they spend time on BOTH.

People don’t feel cared for, valuable, or a part of something great based simply upon total compensation. Don’t get me wrong, total compensation (wage and benefits) is important to every employee, but it is not always the most important factor!

Ever get to a certain point each day in which you simply don’t care? Whatever…as long as you DON’T have to make ONE more decision…

Official phrase for this is: “Decision Fatigue.”

If you are in a creative industry or field, do you feel this pressure? How often? Is it a daily burden wondering: “Can I come up with another great idea today?” Or am I going to have “writers block” or continue in a “creative funk?”

It’s not just the creative folks in an industry who must deal with the daily inspiration conundrum. Leaders and anyone with a deadline also face this challenge. How do I continue to produce great results or lead my team if I don’t feel inspired?

Is there a decision in your life or in your business that you have already “made” in your head but have not communicated or executed yet?

Heather’s greatest analogy, when describing these EQ skills, was that the skills were like the 14 clubs in a golf bag. You can be a pretty good golfer by knowing how to use only a few clubs very well. However, you will only be the best golfer (best leader) if you utilize all 14 clubs!

“It was a heavy burden to bear. But it was absolutely true. I was the leader. I was in charge and I was responsible. Thus, I had to take ownership of everything that went wrong. Despite the tremendous blow to my reputation and to my ego, it was the right thing to do – the only thing to do.”

If you as the owner or key team member is overwhelmed, your own progress and that of your company will be stunted. If not now…at some point in the near future. You cannot effectively lead if you are at or near your breaking point. You must slow down and figure out how to refocus and recharge.

It is extremely important that “every tub sits on its own bottom…and is filled up as it goes.” If an acquisition is a good business decision, then at some point it will be able to sit on its own bottom – be able to not only self-sustain but become profitable. Weisbeck Consulting is extremely passionate about helping businesses streamline their operations and figure out the key to scalable, sustainable growth.

It wasn’t until a good friend adamantly disagreed with me that I began to see the pitfalls of referring to my coworkers as a “work family.” I always sensed it was a bit odd to call coworkers “family,” but it also felt “homey” in a certain way. It felt like I was spending each day developing meaningful relationships with people I really cared about and people who really cared about me. What could be wrong with that? Don’t we want a “family-like” atmosphere at work (a place we spend 40+ hours of our week)?

Can remote workers be innovative? Absolutely. But they must have the right type of attitude, prioritization, and collaboration. The challenge to remote work isn’t that people don’t own their time…its that they feel too much ownership and therefore are less likely to “waste” it on dead time at work. They want to knock out tasks and projects efficiently and then get back to their personal lives. That efficiency is wonderful for the productivity of an organization, but can be detrimental to innovation.

Any healthy business needs to “detoxify” its business on a regular basis. How to define “regular” depends on the number of employees and the overall growth of your business. How do you “detoxify?” Is it through quarterly assessments? Or through team-building exercises? Through client feedback reviews? Or peer reviews?

We have all heard the phrase. Some of us believe it more than others. Whether you believe it or not…the pressing question is: can you be successful as a jack of all trades? Or MUST you master something?

“Over the hill broke” is a dog that is so well trained that it will complete a certain sequence of actions properly even when the owner does not see it. So if the owner shoots a bird that falls on the other side of the crest of the hill, the owner can trust that the dog will go over the hill, remain focused and retrieve the bird properly…just as it would if it were retrieving the bird on this side of the crest. That is “over the hill broke!”

Some have said relativism is dead. It is now the age of moral absolutism. We are no longer free to respectfully disagree. Instead, we are tagged as “bad and evil” if we disagree with someone’s version of truth or what they are choosing to hold as true. Scary…but it is happening. If you take a moment to think of interactions you have witnessed, specifically on social media, you will quickly note examples of this moral absolutism.