Three Steps for Successful Performance Reviews

By Gail Doby, ASID CVO & Co-Founder, Gail Doby Coaching & Consulting & Design Success University Photo By Brittany Beach for Editor At Large Studies show a large majority of employees and managers dislike their company’s performance review process. That’s a shame, because a performance review should be a positive experience for both parties. It’s…

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Avoiding Contract Controversies

Do you get frustrated because you feel your client has not read your contract?  Are you sometimes left wondering why a client has not responded once they received the contract?  Or worse, they decide not to hire your firm and you feel it was something in “the contract” that did it! There are two key…

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How Decisive Are You?

By Drue Lawlor, FASID Director of Coaching, Gail Doby Coaching & Consulting & Design Success University There is a wonderful quote I found that states:  “Be decisive.  Right or wrong, make a decision.  The road of life is paved with flat squirrels who couldn’t make a decision.” (Author unknown).   How quickly do you make decisions?…

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Making Accountability Easier

Making Accountability Easier

How do you handle an employee or client who repeatedly fails to meet deadlines, appointments or project targets?  It seems that no matter how much you complain, threaten, scold, sympathize, or try to reason with them, their behavior doesn’t change.  Short of firing them (and, yes, you can fire a client), what can you do?…

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