Leadership Skills: How To Adjust Being Promoted In Your Department
Business leaders aren’t promoted just for the sake of being promoted. A promotion is a declaration of their commitment to the job, their ability to motivate other team members, and most of all, their ability to execute assignments effectively. Being promoted is exciting. It’s an answer to employees who feel they’ve excelled and are aching [...]
Don’t Eat Yellow Snow
“Don’t eat yellow snow.” That’s good advice. “Don’t get old. It’s a [fill in the blank].” Also good advice, though hard to achieve. That one came from my grandma. She’s a funny old lady. All kidding aside, it’s amazing how good advice can change people. When someone tells you just the right thing at [...]
Why Mentors Make You Appreciate Work Habits From Many Angles
Before I start, I wanted to take a few seconds to introduce myself to the ej4 family. I’m just shy of a month on the job as Community Manager, where I’m tasked with all sorts of projects, including blogging. It’s been nothing short of exciting to work with such a dedicated team, and the entire [...]
How Mentors Helped Teach Me The Fine Art of Sales & Determination
I have been lucky to have smart, wonderful, and generous people around me at several points in my career. That is such an important part of learning and personal growth as a salesperson. Surrounding yourself with the right people, with the right work ethic, is inspiring and can make you better at what you do. [...]
How Business Mentors Instill Wisdom When You Least Expect It
I think the best type of mentoring can be described only as the Mr. Miyagi method from Karate Kid. Someone wiser than you takes you by the hand and starts teaching you. Don’t question the methods, just see how far you’ve come and appreciate the growth. It’s informal mentoring. You don’t know what you’re being [...]
How Leadership Skills Can Be Defined Through Consistency
Leave it to legendary author, Stephen King, to relay one of the most concrete ways for staying on point: consistency. What’s his method, exactly? He sits down and writes every day, with a target of 1,000 words by day’s end. Not once a week, or a couple hours a weekend…every day. And with around 49 [...]
Execution at Work: How to Actually Get Stuff Done
90% of organizations fail to execute their strategies successfully. Yep, you read that right… 90% fail. So, how do you actually get stuff done at work? Watch Rick in this episode of Teachable Moments where he gives you some ideas, a challenge, and calls out someone from Accounting. We want your feedback! How are you [...]
New Year, New Nothing?
The holidays are over and I’m ready to face the new year with huge determination. While I don’t really do resolutions, I do have a mental list of changes I envision will make my life better. Like no more big-as-my-head drinks from Sonic (they’re like crack), no more eating dinner in the living room (though [...]
4 Easy Ways to Say Thanks to Employees
It’s the week of Thanksgiving! I know I should be thankful every day, but something about the leaves falling, baking cookies and decorating the house for Christmas makes me sit back and really appreciate everything I have. But it’s also the end of the year or the last two months of the quarter. It’s the [...]
See ej4 in Action: 1 Min Video
Here’s a quick glance at some of the courses we’ve been making lately. From sporting goods, to telling your customers no – we’ve covered a lot of video learning topics. Watch this 1 minute capabilities reel to get a feel for our style and range. We regularly create and update off-the-shelf learning content, and really [...]
