August 2018
Smart Strategies
Solutions for Workplace Challenges
Alan Krieger
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Greetings!

I hope you're having a great summer. I've had an incredibly busy year and I'm finally catching my breath. So it's time for another newsletter! I've been doing a lot of leadership coaching recently and realized that while most leaders want to be good to their staff and motivate them... when training and being "nice" doesn't work, they don't have another strategy to fall back on and it either leads to a poor worker just hanging on, or someone with potential being terminated.
 
There is a third way! It's called coaching and two of the key skills are strategic listening and understanding motivation. The two articles in this issue address listening and motivation. I hope you find them helpful. Another key coaching skill is how to hold people accountable and I'll write more about that in our next issue.
 
Please let me know if you have any questions and feel free to comment on the blogs!

Alan
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Strategic Listening
 
Why do you listen? Most people will respond: to hear the other person's message or to get information.
 
A strategic listener, listens one level deeper: We listen to build a connection. This is essential if you want to build strong collaborative relationships with the people you work with and/or supervise.
 
For specific tools and tips... more
The 10 Keys to Motivation
 
While more money and better benefits make employees happy, it turns out that these motivate them to show up, but are not as effective at motivating employees to perform well.
 
A famous Gallop poll identified that most people leave their jobs because they don't get along with their supervisor or feel poorly treated by their supervisor. The majority don't leave for more money.
 
Read on to find out the ten keys to motivating your staff... more .
Krieger Solutions, LLC
Offers Leadership Coaching
  
Training can be very helpful in providing new ideas and information, but to really change your behavior and successfully implement new strategies takes a sustained effort. Our leadership coaching services help fill this need. We've been expanding our work in this area and find that many people don't really understand what leadership coaching means. As coaches, we consult with you on people problems or challenges you have in the workplace, generally around how to motivate poor performers, how to hold them accountable and how to build a strong team. 
 
We approach this differently from the way most coaches do. You identify challenges you have with people you work with (up or down the chain... or laterally) and we provide you some new frameworks in which to view these challenges. We then suggest strategies to address the challenge more effectively. Our coaching style is pretty direct. People pay us for solutions and we like to deliver! Our clients have been very pleased with the results. 
 
If you’d like to find out more about this, email us at info@kriegersolutions.com . We’re happy to provide a short free initial session to see if it works for you.  
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