Award Recognizes Redefining Normal
Honoring the connection between business breakthroughs and family foundation, Loyola University Family Business Center recently recognized Resicom as a finalist for the 18th annual Illinois Family Business of the Year Award. CEO John Fairclough accepted the award on Resicom’s behalf November 29th ceremony at Chicago Four Seasons. Resicom was founded as a family venture over [...]
Trust Encourages Growth
Do you get the most out of relationships? If not, consider giving people 100% of the credit they deserve in their role.
Trust is earned. Having to prove yourself gets frustrating, not exactly the quickest route to a mutually trusting, beneficial relationship.
Assume people have already proven themselves in being offered and accepting the position [...]
Do you get the most out of relationships? If not, consider giving people 100% of the credit they deserve in their role.
Trust is earned. Having to prove yourself gets frustrating, not exactly the quickest route to a mutually trusting, beneficial relationship.
Assume people have already proven themselves in being offered and accepting the position will start the trust wheel moving forward.
Don’t worry, those people not worth trusting will lose chunks of the 100% credit quickly, but you will no longer stifle great relationships from starting.
Managers have it tough – they need to create and foster performance without destroying their team’s dedication when discipline is required. Keeping in mind that people behave rationally to their own unique realities can help us understand their behavior better.
Consider that people make decisions using their experience, desires, and fears. Since everyone’s are [...]
Continue Reading →Information can cripple productivity. Too much of it can leave you feeling like you do not have enough of it – as clarity usually begs for more questions to be answered. In this way, information is really a tripping hazard. It’s value begins once it is converted into knowledge.
How can we convert the information [...]
Continue Reading →Many managers suffer from proverbial fires being dropped into their laps. I’d like to challenge them to take a moment and resist the temptation to blame a person for the fire. Not everyone who passes a fire is an arsonist, although many companies have sleeper arsonists on their team, that is for another post!
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Continue Reading →”Good thoughts are no better than good dreams, unless they are executed.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Continue Reading →Follow your Guide
There are clairvoyants among us. People who can seem to predict what is going to happen before it happens. They seem to know without you explaining it.
When they want to understand something, they skip the typical first and second questions and ask something that doesn’t seem to connect back to the [...]
Continue Reading →”The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn’t said.” -Peter F. Drucker
Continue Reading →”What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson
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