Beth Steinberg Page 1 • Posts 1 – 12 of 12

  • The Power of Collective Thinking and the Eggo Challenge

    Wednesday, April 21st, 2010 • Corporate Culture

    I have always been a believer in the power of a team. I find that work is not only more enjoyable when you are working with a great team, but generally, I find you get better ideas and results. I have worked in companies that cherished the team model, and other companies (typically engineering... more...

  • Doing What You Love

    Wednesday, April 7th, 2010 • Corporate Culture

    Over the past few weeks, several friends and former colleagues have come to me to talk about their next job move. I am not sure what is spurring on the dialogue. My guess is a combination of an increased need for personal satisfaction in work, coupled with a new found confidence in the economy. ... more...

  • Leaders and Emotional Intelligence

    Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010 • Leadership

    Early in my career, I understood that leaders who were smart, creative and knew how to work with people, were usually more effective than those who did not. There were certainly exceptions: ineffective leaders who always made their revenue targets, technical leaders that did not have a big interest... more...

  • Proactive Leadership

    Friday, February 26th, 2010 • Leadership

    Leadership tends to be a very reactive endeavor, even with the best of intentions,. Leaders are tasked with not only leading their teams, but accomplishing their own objectives. In many companies, much of a leader’s time is spent managing multiple relationships within their organizations. With... more...

  • Culture in Action

    Wednesday, February 17th, 2010 • Corporate Culture

    Culture refers to the values of the company, the way people get their work done, the way decisions are made, and the way people treat each other, their customers and their shareholders. I have written a lot about the importance of company culture in my previous posts. Employees may see culture in... more...

  • Rethinking the “Focal” Performance Review

    Wednesday, February 10th, 2010 • Performance Management

    Most companies I have worked for and worked with have a “focal” performance review process.  This process is typically one review per year, completed by the manager with or without some sort of 360 review process.  While some managers really take the process seriously and work hard to write a... more...

  • Open Feedback Movement

    Friday, January 15th, 2010 • Feedback

    [caption id="" align="alignright" width="240" caption="Photo by rightee"][/caption] After many years of watching employees and managers struggle with performance reviews, I finally started re-thinking the process and trying to change it. It was hard for employees at my then-employer to take... more...

  • Balancing People and Work

    Tuesday, January 5th, 2010 • Corporate Culture

    [caption id="" align="alignright" width="180" caption="Photo by James Jordan"][/caption] I learned a very tough lesson about resource management pretty early in my career. Coming from retail, I was used to the seasonal hiring and seasonal lay offs. While it was very difficult, people we hired... more...

  • Driving a Culture of Accountability and Responsibility

    Monday, December 21st, 2009 • Corporate Culture

    [caption id="" align="alignright" width="240" caption="Photo by Lars Plougmann"][/caption] The behaviors organization accept are generally baked into their corporate culture. Accountability is no exception. The cues we get from the company leadership, our direct manager, and our peers formulate... more...

  • Job Design and Challenging Work

    Monday, December 14th, 2009 • Corporate Culture

    [caption id="" align="alignright" width="161" caption="Photo by ItzaFineDay"][/caption] Employees want to know that their work matters to the overall success of the company. It's important that jobs are designed in a way that their value and impact is clear to the employee. Technology companies... more...