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Master Gardening Tips for Growing Great Employees

by Jeanne Baer, President Creative Training Solutions | Posted: 02/8/12

A few weeks ago (early January), I glanced into the backyard and was startled to see strong-looking, bright green tulip plants triumphantly poking up through the soil. Who’d have thought that global warming would give Nebraska such a heat-wavey winter?! And those determined tulips made me think: How might a... more

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The Journey and the Jumper

by Jeanne Baer, Pressident-Creative Training Solutionns | Posted: 01/1/12

In a reflective mood, I was re-reading a few of the 200-plus columns I’ve written for Strictly Business over the years. I’ve gotten so many comments about this article, published in January 2000, that I’m... more

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Disagreeing with the Boss: Use your head, and keep it!

by Jeanne Baer, Pressident-Creative Training Solutionns | Posted: 12/1/11

Sometimes, you hear an idea or get a directive from your boss or one of the higher-ups that you know will spell disaster. Instead of screaming, “The sky is falling! The sky is falling!” stay... more

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Peg Recognition to Personality, Part 2

By Jeanne Baer, President, Creative Training Solutions | Posted: 11/2/11

In this tight economy, every day we are asked to do more with less, more with less, more with even less. But as a manager, you don’t need to feel entirely enslaved to this tiresome... more

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Peg Recognition to Personality, Part 1

By Jeanne Baer, President, Creative Training Solutions | Posted: 10/1/11

In light of our stalled economy, are you grateful to have a job but tired of doing the work of three people?  So are the employees who report to you. You may not be able... more

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Overcome “Quiet Desperation” by Reframing

By Jeanne Baer, President, Creative Training Solutions | Posted: 09/1/11

When your alarm clock rings, do you ever feel that you’re helplessly held in place by the weight of a heavy blanket?  Feeling what Thoreau called, “quiet desperation” when you think of the work that... more

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Surviving Foot-in-Mouth Disease

By Jeanne Baer, President, Creative Training Solutions | Posted: 08/1/11

At a recent funeral I attended, some home-grown musicians labored mightily to perform  soothing selections before the service started. Although consolation was the intent, torture was the result; off-key “music” produces all the comfort of... more

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From Learning, to Doing: Your Role in Training Transfer

By Jeanne Baer, President, Creative Training Solutions | Posted: 07/1/11

Training is an important investment to improve your employees’ performance, but it’s extremely expensive if what they learn doesn’t become what they do. An important study* revealed that there are nine barriers to training transfer... more

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Mark “Pride Goes Before a Fall” Day June 25

By Jeanne Baer, President, Creative Training Solutions | Posted: 06/1/11

What’s the most dangerous trait a manager can have? Arrogance, I believe. Too many times in my 20-plus years as a consultant, I have observed otherwise brilliant, dedicated leaders bite the dust when hubris collided... more

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Calling Out Your Arrogant Superstars

By Jeanne Baer, President, Creative Training Solutions | Posted: 05/1/11

Faster than a speeding bullet! More powerful than a locomotive! Able to leap tall buildings in a single bound! It’s Superstar! Do you manage a star performer?   Bright, ambitious, and results-driven, s/he runs rings around... more

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