by Bernie Heine | Oct 15, 2020 | Business Coaching, Business Systems, Leadership, Personal Effectiveness
Mindfulness is a wonderful state of mind. When you enter it, you are fully in the moment and free from all your preconceptions, biases, and habitual responses. You are thinking clearly and prepared to act in the most effective way. Moments of mindfulness are...
by Bernie Heine | Sep 5, 2020 | Business Coaching, Leadership, Personal Evaluation
Our Neural Networks Don’t Have to be Rivals. In times like these, we are all stressed, fearful, and worried for ourselves and others. Our people are concerned about their jobs and providing for their families. More globally, we are all concerned about the nation’s...
by Bernie Heine | Aug 4, 2020 | Business Coaching, Leadership, Strategic Planning
Whether you are in charge of a small business or perhaps only a leader of a small team, you are aware of how connected motivation and productivity are. Providing your employees with the basics such as competitive salaries and benefit packages is very important for...
by Bernie Heine | Jun 5, 2020 | Business Coaching, Business Systems, Human Resources, Leadership
Take care of both the practical and personal side of every 1-to-1! It’s a golden rule every new manager learns early on: Make time for your direct reports, 1-to-1, every week or so. It is the manager’s responsibility to ensure they happen, and it’s their...
by Bernie Heine | Mar 26, 2020 | Business Coaching, Leadership, Strategic Planning
Two Must-Do Guidelines and Five Clichés to Avoid. Your strategic review is a rare opportunity to take an objective overview perspective on your business. It is a time for questioning assumptions and a space in which to encourage creativity and involvement. It is not a...
by Bernie Heine | Mar 25, 2020 | Business Coaching, Leadership
Delegation, when we don’t do it right, is a frustrating business. We discover down the road that things never turn out as we thought they would. We find ourselves looking at deadlines in the rearview mirror. It drives us crazy and reinforces the conviction that “if it...