Category Archives: Leadership

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  Put Down That Saw!

  Posted on April 4, 2016 by Lisa Sperow in Employee Engagement, Leadership

  Steven Covey’s The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People is one of the greatest books of all time, if you ask me. It’s not only a must-read, it’s a must-read-many-times kind of book. There’s never a time that I pick it up to re-read, whether in whole or in part, that it doesn’t speak to […]

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  Performance Management: What’s Your Role as a Manager?

  Posted on March 3, 2016 by Lisa Sperow in Leadership

  What does your organization want to accomplish? What will it take to achieve your goals? Who needs to do what to make those goals happen.. and by when? Performance management, as defined by the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, is the “systematic process by which an agency involves its employees, as individuals and members of a […]

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  Seek First to Understand…

  Posted on February 17, 2016 by Lisa Sperow in Leadership

  Say it with me, Covey fans… “…Then to be understood.” I have read The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People countless times, yet I am always amazed at just how much I can use the refresher. The principles are so basic, so intuitive, and always so relevant to whatever environment I’m currently in. They’re also […]

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