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Articles by Linda Finkle

• The Value of Authenticity in Corporate Leadership
  Being an authentic leader "means feeling comfortable in your own skin..." "When you believe in your vision, your voice, and your path, your leadership is more than simply giving orders." "Your leadership becomes a means of connecting...,"
  Published 26Jan2009, viewed 257 times

• Motivating Change-Resistant Employees
  "To be a real contender" in the fight for corporate viability you must create an environment open to change. You must implement an "affirmative change management culture" that helps your people adapt. "Your productivity results and profit margin" will directly mimic..."
  Published 26Jan2009, viewed 350 times

• Effective Performance Reviews
  "Performance reviews are stressful for both the employer and the employee. The employee is "waiting" for the shoe to drop" and the employer isn't comfortable with telling the blatant truth... How do you alleviate the stress?
  Published 26Jan2009, viewed 218 times

• Leveraging the Interview Process to Brand Your Business
  "If you had 60 seconds in which to speak to some high quality candidates, can you tell them why they should work for your company? ... If you've done your job well they should know about..."
  Published 26Jan2009, viewed 232 times

• M&A: Don't Forget the People
  Mergers & acquisitions bring together two independent organizational infrastructures. The companies involved spend countless hours developing blueprints to unite their finance, technology, and human resource dept's. Profit and growth are the overriding objectives, but a purely economic approach, however, fails to consider one key ingredient: the people. When merging companies ignore the people, their paved road will quickly develop potholes.
  Published 20Jan2009, viewed 262 times

• Lessen The Load of Training New Hires
  "...we all have faced the age old dilemma of whether to hire or not to hire new staff...this question presents a weighty set of issues." By following these suggestions, managers can tip the scale in their favor.
  Published 20Jan2009, viewed 195 times

• Keeping A Good Team Together
  When you have the building blocks but lack the blueprint to build an effective team, you place your company on the front lines of trouble. Disjointed teams create holes in the protective armor. Keep your company out of the line of fire by...
  Published 20Jan2009, viewed 199 times

• Merging Business with People
  When your company is planning a merger, communicate this information with your employees. Keeping major changes like a merger a secret only caters to the impending "rumor mill backlash". Learn what to communicate to your employees to limit the inevitable concerns.
  Published 15Nov2008, viewed 285 times

• Terminating Employees Respectfully
  Firing an employee is tough, and the territory comes with emotional fallout, but if it has to be done, you do both yourself and your business a great disservice by putting off the inevitable. Every company has to make tough decisions about staffing; it's the nature of business. However, if we forget that employees are people, with feelings, fears, concerns and families, we will simply dismiss them (both literally and figuratively).
  Published 15Nov2008, viewed 365 times

• Dealing With Tough Clients
  If demanding and negative clients are keeping you up at night, it's time to re-evaluate whether these clients are worth your aggravation. As a service provider you may be inclined to accept whatever business comes your way, but be careful as difficult clients come with their own set of hidden costs.
  Published 28Oct2008, viewed 230 times

• Correcting Issues Before the Customer is Affected
  Every company has its problems but the one department whos problems immediately affect your customers is the customer service department. How can you effectively eliminate or deal with these problems by fully exploring and analyzing all aspects of problems you're experiencing will give you the perspective and the knowledge to handle the situation appropriately.
  Published 28Oct2008, viewed 262 times

• An Apple a Day Won't Keep Burnout Away
  In this era of long work days, long commutes, and high stress, employees dedicate far less time towards preserving their mental and physical well-being. While employers prefer to believe that extended work days enhance long-term production, the reality presents a far different picture.
  Published 31Jul2008, viewed 277 times

• The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of Workplace Friendships
  Workplace friendships may seem like an ideal arrangement at first blush. But once the honeymoon phase ends, a whole different picture may emerge. When workplace friends turn enemies, a company loses far more than camaraderie. A broken friendship can reduce productivity, cause infighting, and spread discontentment. The key is to know where to draw the line.
  Published 30Jul2008, viewed 287 times

• Mentoring: A Little Help Goes a Long Way
  Mentoring programs offer companies an efficient and economical way to manage and develop human assets. These programs can make an exceptional diffence to productivity, but they cannot make an individual want to excel or turn a company's potential around on a dime. To succeed, companies must learn to employ mentoring programs that make the most of limited resources.
  Published 11Jun2008, viewed 248 times

• A Meeting of the Minds
  Meetings offer managers the chance to unify the workforce, communicate important messages, and create an organized forum for employee concerns. Therefore, meetings are a crucial aspect of running a business. Unfortunately, many managers treat meetings as ad hoc events and fail to properly prepare. Proper preparation is all it takes to affect a meeting of the minds every time.
  Published 10Jun2008, viewed 416 times

• Are Men Better Bosses than Women?
  Which gender makes the best boss? It's a frequently asked question in the workplace. Is it men or women who are superior as boss-material? Research notwithstanding, I don't actually think this is an "either-or" kind of question. It's really a question of what qualities make someone a successful boss, and even further how do we quantify success?
  Published 09Jun2008, viewed 488 times

• Succession Planning: Your Company's Future Depends on It
  Succession planning is something every leader and organization talks about. On some level, every business owner knows that they need to have a succession process in place, yet very little attention is actually paid to developing a strong plan and implementing it. With an entire generation of Baby Boomer leaders looking towards their retirement, succession planning is becoming increasingly important to today's business world.
  Published 15Apr2008, viewed 281 times

• Growth Strategies for Businesses
  Growing your business can be a difficult and often frustrating process. No matter how talented, experienced, or proficient you are as a leader, business development may be draining your energy, funds, and desire to achieve the original plans you had for your company. Yet growing your business is a critical step in maximizing your company's potential and in revenue enhancement. So how do you achieve success? You need a growth strategy.
  Published 02Mar2008, viewed 305 times

• Taking a Small Business to the Next Level
  Taking a small business to the next level. An interesting concept. What exactly does that mean? "The next level" indisputably means something different to individual companies, but the core principals will most likely be the same. And what holds small business owners back from doing this? What may come as a surprise some is that money resources are not the only - or even the foremost - issue for these companies.
  Published 01Mar2008, viewed 408 times

• Celebrating Failures
  What is the real "f" word? It's failure. We all want things to go perfectly - or what we perceive as perfectly. But the truth is, they don't, always. Trying new things creates the possibility of failure. In a business landscape where the message is predominantly that "Failure is Bad," it's no wonder that failure is perceived as a dirty word.
  Published 29Feb2008, viewed 265 times

• Effectively Managing Personal Issues at Work
  Everyone goes through personal issues of some sort during their lives. Lets face it, when major family/personal issues arise, your time and energy is going to be focused on resolving these difficulties. Often we think we are handling things jut fine, but we really arent.
  Published 08Feb2008, viewed 486 times

• The Art of Selling a Deadline
  The old adage is true, “Time is money, don’t waste it.” You’ve been given a project to pull together data from several departments within your organization. How can you convey the urgency and deadlines to someone in another department who isn’t directly affected by this project? Managing this challenge will be half the battle for you.
  Published 04Nov2007, viewed 334 times

• Keeping the Lines of Management Intact
  Cultivating a good manager takes finesse and experience. Key ingredients such as reliability, ability to make competent decisions and possess innate leadership qualities must be present in order to become a successful manager. If any of those ingredients is missing or is skewed in relation to the other, the combination can be reckless and create undesirable consequences down the road.
  Published 05Oct2007, viewed 282 times

• Companies Want Results from Employees
  You want extraordinary results from your employees, but you also want to be seen as kind, caring managers. Learn how to balance your actions to create and effective work environment.
  Published 04Oct2007, viewed 279 times

• The Power of Internal Buy-in
  Your department isn’t the sales department of the company, but you frequently have to use sales skills. To get your department producing efficiently and effectively, youm ight have to sell your ideas to create buy-in.
  Published 11May2007, viewed 428 times

• Upselling Strategies: Don’t Leave Money on the Table
  What does it take to thrive as a sales professional or entrepreneur in today's competitive business world? How can you effectively show your customers the value you bring, sell them more of your service, build their loyalty and gain a competitive advantage? Find the keys to successful upselling!
  Published 26Apr2007, viewed 793 times

• Reengineer Specific Jobs
  Regularly examining all the positions within your company might just be the key to sucess. “Regularly” depends upon the company, size, growth, turnover, and many other factors. However, at a minimum,
  Published 25Apr2007, viewed 357 times

• Interviewing Doesn't Have To Be Difficult
  Learn how to interview effectively. You will learn the right combination of questions to use in order to find the right candidate for your company.
  Published 17Apr2007, viewed 531 times

• Establishing Meaningful and Objective Performance Criteria
  Understanding that establishing criteria for successful performance is key to ensure that you get the performance you want. Learn to detemine the conditions for satisfaction in order to establish meaningful criteria.
  Published 23Mar2007, viewed 451 times

• Life Management Skills – is it possible to have a life and be a leader?
  Balance is more of a way of life, not a result one tries to achieve. Discover what causes us to be out of balance or "off".
  Published 21Mar2007, viewed 424 times

• Developing Direct Reports - what's the point?
  Developing direct reports is more than simply creating performance objectives; it’s about creating development objectives for each employee. Learn to understand the difference between what they expect from an employee and this employee is currently delivering.
  Published 16Mar2007, viewed 821 times

• Improving employee retention
  Look at how to improve employee retention by creating an environment that reduces stress while improving energy and morale.
  Published 14Mar2007, viewed 389 times

• Managing change - focusing your attention on motivation
  When people are motivated, they are more productive and happier, and they'll be less likely to leave your organization. Learning that each employee motivates differently could be the key to sucess.
  Published 11Mar2007, viewed 477 times

• Why we don’t hire effectively
  How you interview is important, whether you’re interviewing for rising stars in the company or just good, solid citizens for particular positions. However, it’s not as simple as just knowing what you’re looking for. You also have to be able to hire effectively; that means to know what you’re looking for and how to find it.
  Published 06Mar2007, viewed 371 times

• Characteristics of the Best and Brightest
  Have the needs of the company or organization changed over time? Are the characteristics of your rising stars the same as five or ten years ago? Sometimes we continue to hire based on old data or an old model, and that model may no longer serve us. There are ways to be sure you're hiring for what the organization needs right now.
  Published 02Mar2007, viewed 381 times

• Motivating Others
  Managers tend not to focus on employee motivation until it’s lost. What could the benefits be for your company if you focused on it now?
  Published 01Mar2007, viewed 399 times

• Make communication work for you
  Differences in communication styles or the communication styles themselves are often the cause of problems, rather than the content that’s being communicated. Often we see these problems occur when the topic is difficult; no one has trouble communicating around success! There are keys to communicating effectively.
  Published 21Feb2007, viewed 696 times

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