TIGERS® Blog
How to Create a Supportive Environment for Your Team
As leaders, it’s important to monitor not only our team’s progress but our own. Where do you stand as a leader? Do you know your leadership style or the type of environment you are cultivating? To best lead your team, it’s important to ask yourself these questions. ....
How to apply dissent in decision-making
Leaders in any organization show their resolve in many ways – mentoring, setting strategy, and implementing the desired work culture. One of the more important ways to test a leader is in their understanding of how to apply dissent in decision-making and whether they...
Do You Have A Workgroup or Team?
Your Manager says “we’re a team” but something just doesn’t feel right because no one works together. Everyone is completing their own assignment. There is neither coordination nor discussion. Their tasks aren’t related to yours and vice-versa. Nothing has...
Work Culture Characteristics That Allow Managers as Facilitators to Thrive
By now, most of you who are also subscribed to the TIGERS 6 Principles ™ newsletter know that I am a passionate organic gardener and also TIGERS 6 Principles developer of managers as facilitators. What I understand about gardening is that most native plants are...
Why Manager-Facilitators are Important to an Employee-Forward Workplace
Manager-Facilitators build the collaborative workforce and develop employees. Why it isn't obvious at this point is mind-boggling. Here’s one example. In between bites of canapés and crudités, the emcee of the company-wide luncheon called everyone’s attention for a...
Suggestions from Team Leaders that Reduce Active Disengagement
The following suggestions from team leaders often correct active disengagement. Here's an example. A friend and I were having lunch the other day. We got around to the topic of work and she told me that another person quit in her department. I said, “Another?”. She...
Why Employees Love Empathetic Leaders
When you spend time and resources to recruit employees, obviously you want them to stay. Right? If so, empathy is a skill worth paying attention to. This is because empathetic leaders experience less turnover and are loved and appreciated by employees. Empathy works...
Painless Brainstorming for Teams and Leaders
Utter the word “brainstorming” to your department, and it could send a person or two scurrying out of the huddle. For many, the process of brainstorming is just as pleasant as nuking their brains in the microwave. It’s a mix of desperately trying to get everyone’s...
How to Love Your Flaws
This is true and would have been embarrassing if I hadn't learned something. I missed the plane. I am blessed and cursed by high levels of attention and focus. In this instance I was traveling to a client 3 hours away and was waiting to board my flight in the first...
How to Effectively Praise Your Performer
The late Mary Kay Ash, American businesswoman and founder of Mary Kay Cosmetics is known for her business empire, splendor, and unparalleled success during her time. One of her lasting remarks regarding praise and how to praise your performer has made it into the...
