IMP Blog
April 2017 – Volume 184
Personal Message from Anne Warfield Commitment always means a lot to me. I am still in the age where you don't promise unless you can deliver so I won't ask for or do anything unless I am on the path of truly considering it. I will tell you, though, that is an anomaly in the sales [...]
Asking vs Dictating
Do You Ask or Dictate? There is definitely a certain finesse to doing things that either magnetically pulls people to you or repels them away. So why do some people tick you off with the way they handle things and others don’t offend you at all? Is it the intent behind the words? Is it the judgment? [...]
April 2016 – Volume 172
Personal Message from Anne Warfield As I watch our seasons slip in to Spring I am continually reminded of how something can appear completely dead and useless yet in a few months it can suddenly sprout new growth and flowers and be absolutely breathtaking. I think people are a lot like that and it is our [...]
Do Less, Gain More Employee Accountability
There is a strange phenomenon I find among leaders--they are often causing their own greatest problems by trying to do something nice. I often see leaders who realize their workers are over taxed and so the leader steps in to help out. Seems admirable on the cover but unfortunately it often has dire unintended consequences. See [...]
This Can Be Causing You A Lot More Work
Typically I find that leaders tend to focus on managing down. This philosophy causes your brain to do many things that actually create more work for you as a leader. It causes you to: 1. To be accountable as the knowledge and answer source. The problem with this is you can then become a bottleneck as [...]
When An Employee Fires You As A Leader
I have fallen in love with watching the show The Profit. I love how Marcus focuses on three simple things--people, process and product. In one episode an owner had almost all his employees turnover on him within 5 weeks. As the owner stood there blabbering about why each person left, Marcus just stopped him and said,"You [...]
April 2015 – Volume 160
~HostedEmail.Link~ Personal Message from Anne Warfield I am finding I am at a very busy and vulnerable time in my life. I am between balancing my work, my team, my family, my health, and my parents. All of these responsibilities come with great love and accountability. The balance is critical to the success of these challenges [...]
Learning From Failure is Essential for Success
Anne Warfield Wow! Here it's almost Fall and I am sending my first born off to college and the others are preparing for back to school. To me, it is funny, to think that we spend all these years putting knowledge in to children's brains and less time helping them build better pathways [...]
