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The Effective Manager: Communicate About Performance

Mark Hortsman’s second critical behavior in The Effective Manager is communicate about performance. The… Worst…! It is a skill that is definitely easier for some people than others. I love feedback about myself. I even love constructive feedback about myself but ask me to give it to others… the struggle is real! Multiple reasons exist:…

The Effective Manager: Get to Know Your People

Mark Hortsman’s first critical behavior that he discusses in the book The Effective Manager is getting to know your people. The manager that know his or her team members better than average are also better than average at getting results. Makes a lot of sense right! Every person that we work with is an individual…

Habits: Are they the key?

If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude. -Colin Powell We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit. – Will Durant based on Aristotle’s teachings Wouldn’t it be great…

15 Minute Meeting

Mark Hortsman completed an interesting study that he talks about in the book The Effective Manager. With this idea about the 15 minute meeting, they were able to impact the actions of a manager. They were able to impact employee retention in 90% of managers 90% of the time. The actions that make some manager’s…

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Hi, I’m Bethany. I’m a veterinarian and I love working with pigs. Over the years, I’ve learned that taking care of the people that take care of our pigs helps everyone! Come and learn with me about how we can take care of ourselves, the teams we work with and the pigs we care for!

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