Dr. Edward Thalheimer’s Blog
Promoting a Growth Mindset on Your Team
Growth and expansion is an essential part and parcel of every aspect of corporate management. As a business cooperative social group grows, so should the mindsets of every person associated with such an establishment. In business, the realized growth should be...
Invaluable Management Tips Taught By Children
Somewhere between the endless staff meetings, upcoming deadlines, lost files, bumper-to-bumper traffic, and invoice overflows, many managers have lost their way, causing them to fail at the basics. This could derail their career or lead both their company and staff...
Getting the Best Ideas from Your Team
It’s not always easy to get everyone on the team to contribute good ideas. Managers and leaders need to learn how to draw those ideas out. Empowering members to express their views can help leaders nurture talented individuals instead of compelling them to seek...
Helping Employees Adjust to the New Normal
The recent pandemic has forced us to change the way we do most things, which includes compelling us to change the way we work. For many, that means having to work remotely from home for the first time. This can be a frustrating or unsettling experience, so it's...
Leadership: Recovering from Failure
My Business Failed. Now What? Entrepreneurs don't start businesses because they want to fail, but they do. Most begin full of hope and enthusiasm. They believe they have a plan in place that will lead their business to success. They planned, trained, saved up money,...
How to Become a More Decisive Leader
One of the characteristics we have found in good leaders is their ability to make timely, quality decisions. Quick-thinking individuals are in leadership roles because they are not inflated with feelings of self-importance, but are self-confident and aggressively...
Three Benefits of Diversity in Leadership
In an increasingly globalized world, populations get more and more diverse. Unfortunately, many companies have yet to embrace diversity within their ranks fully. Organizations with higher levels of diversity do have advantages. These are some of the top benefits of...
Top Leadership Books from 2019
One of the biggest keys to success lies in our willingness to learn from others. Many leaders in finance, technology, and business attribute their success to reading as a means of growing their knowledge. And while there are numerous books to anticipate in 2020, many...
Franchise Leadership
Leadership within a franchise works in a few different directions. Typically a franchise's corporate structure has a leadership plan for training new franchisees on how to conduct business according to the corporate values. The franchisee, in turn, has leadership...
Leadership in Trying Times
It's easy to be a leader when everything is going well. In any walk of life, success is easier to enjoy than difficulties are to navigate. The head football coach will always have an easier time lifting the championship trophy than he will explaining a winless season....