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Does Your Culture Handcuff or Unleash Your Talent?
High potential employees thrive in a culture that unleashes their talents and they get frustrated and leave organizations that constrain them.
What is your ROT (Return on Time)?
Time is the great equalizer. We all have the same 24 hours in a day. How we leverage our time determines our level of success and value. What is your ROT?
Sharpen Your Carrots
Striking the right balance between praise and punishment with employees is a challenge for most leaders. The term to sharpen your carrots is Groove Management’s way of helping leaders to remember to strike the right balance.
Organizational Swim Lanes and Silos
There is a balance that must be achieved in an organization or else too much structure can turn organizational swim lanes into silos.
Do You Dissect Your Successes?
We tend to focus too much energy on figuring out the root cause of what went wrong and not enough time on what went right. Learning to dissect successes is a business practice that can accelerate an organization’s growth.
Is The Most Effective Leadership Style Within Your Reach?
What is your mental capacity to reach with your leadership style. We are all clear on our physical limitations, but what is our ability to stretch our style when it comes to leading ourselves and others?
A Compilation of HR Insights
For the past several years Groove Management’s founder, Brian Formato has been a columnist for HR Insights Magazine. This is a compilation of his articles.
Iconic Core Values
Utilizing icons can help bring your organization’s core values to life. Iconography is a simple way to illustrate the meaning behind your core values.
12 HR Terms You are Probably Not Familiar with That Can Improve Your Business
12 Human Resources terms that can improve your business results. Let your company’s vocabulary drive your culture and your business intentions.
Crossboarding Internal Talent Moves
Crossboarding is the act of onboarding internal talent moves. Setting employees up for success whether they are new hires from the outside or transfers within an organization is critical.
Are You on the Naughty List?
My naughty list is comprised of people who are unresponsive. Responsiveness is a trait of successful leaders.
2022 Groove Management Techie Gift Guide
2022 Groove Management Techie Gift Guide. Our annual curated list of cool gift ideas for the tech lovers in your life.
Timeout: The premise and the promise of enhanced performance
Calling timeout in sports is a strategic move to help win games, yet in business few leaders ever call timeout. Learn more about Groove Management’s approach to team timeouts.
The Adult Happy Meal Planning Meeting
Now is the time to proactively plan for tougher economic conditions. The Adult Happy Meal Planning meeting is a symbolic way to prompt your leadership team to exercise fiscal responsiblity.
Cold Emailing is Just Obnoxious
Sending cold emails rarely achieves the desired result. In this post we review three spammy emails and propose an alternative approach when marketing to people or companies not in your network.
BACK TO SCHOOL: A WELCOME RETURN TO STRUCTURE AND ROUTINES
Structure and planning leads to much more consistent performance both for our children, our families and our work teams. Predictable results require a disciplined approach.
The Patiently Intense Leader
A characteristic of some of the best leaders is the ability to be patiently intense. On the surface being patient and intense might seem opposed to one and other, but in fact the two compliment each other and make for a critical leadership success factor.
An Interview with Erik Rydholm the man behind Pardon The Interruption
Erik Rydholm the executive producer and creator of Pardon the Interruption (PTI) shares the backstory on the visual agenda and how his time at the Motley Fool helped create one of ESPN’s longest running hit TV shows.
Collaborating for the Good of Others
Groove Management’s Charity Bike Build Challenge is a great team building workshop with a special give back component. Teams foster collaboration while assembling bicycles that they then gift to children in need.
Office Monsters or Culture Crusaders?
If you want employees to return to the office are you framing the ask properly? CNBC has been calling Wall Street CEOs Office Monsters. What if they referred to them as Culture Crusaders instead and focused on the positives? Would that change the dialogue?