by Molly McGrath | Jan 30, 2014 | Hiring & Firing, Leadership, Team Training
One of the worst things to happen to a good employee-boss relationship is a raise. Too often in small businesses there is no formal structure around raises – when to give them, how they are calculated or who initiates the conversation. It usually happens something...
by Molly McGrath | Jan 28, 2014 | Communication, Decreasing Stress, Leadership, Team Training
Ever realize that the more responsible your team leader becomes, the more isolated you may feel as an attorney? What, they don’t need me anymore? During our Team Empowerment call yesterday, we were discussing the concept of an intrapreneur. Intrapreneurs are team...
by Molly McGrath | Jan 12, 2014 | Communication, Decreasing Stress, Leadership
It’s an unsettling feeling when you lose trust in your team. (And the same goes if you are an employee and you don’t trust your boss or co-workers anymore.) I don’t mean the type of trust like fearing they will steal from you. In a way, that’s easier to resolve. You...
by Molly McGrath | Jan 8, 2014 | Hiring & Firing
Usually, doing the first round of phone interviews for a position we are filling is a bit frustrating. You’ve all been there – weeding out the people who look great on paper but are immediate NO’s once you talk to them. For instance, there was the woman who...
by Molly McGrath | Jan 2, 2014 | Decreasing Stress, Systems, Team Training
Ever find yourself moving so quickly that you aren’t really finishing anything? Instead you are kind of bouncing from one project to the next, reacting to what’s coming at you, and wondering what you accomplished at the end of the day? There are several things that...