Tim Eisenhauer's Blog
August 10, 2018
Q&A About: Who the Hell Wants to Work for You? Mastering Employee Engagement
As you might suspect, I wrote a book on employee engagement. It’s called Who the Hell Wants to Work for You: Mastering Employee Engagement. Since the book came out, I’ve been talking to journalists who like to interview authors. I get the same questions again and again, so I put together a cheat sheet to cover the main points ...
July 25, 2018
Want Employees to Get Serious about Work? Try This
If fun at work comes from bonding with your team, seriousness comes from a sense of purpose. Which comes from bonding with another group of stakeholders—your customers.
Want People to Listen to You? Give Yourself an Edge
Teams and organizations could avoid many circular and tangential conversations if everyone just shut up and listened to what everyone else had to say. But before you can help them help themselves, one thing needs to happen. Somebody needs to start listening to you…
July 24, 2018
How to Get Your Team to Know Each Other
Knowing people is not the same as liking or trusting them—but it is a necessary first step. It’s just as important to know your coworkers as it is to know the software you use to do your job. And, while software is getting more intuitive every day, people really aren’t.
July 22, 2018
How a Failure Can Save Your Dream: Immortal Advice from Steve Jobs
It’s a paradox: we are never so close to our dreams as when we think we’ve failed. Take it from the man who has failed as spectacularly as he has succeeded.
Intellectual Humility: The Cure is in, But You Can’t Buy it in Stores
Why is it that many competent and brilliant people can’t get a job at Google? What’s special about intellectual humility and why is it hard to find? Can we learn this trait and teach it to others?
July 20, 2018
How to Get the Recognition You Deserve at Work
How do you get people to recognize your contributions, preferably on a daily basis? You don’t want to sit and wait for it, that’s for sure. But you may not want to blow your own horn either—or butter people up just to get a quid pro quo. Here’s a better idea...
July 12, 2018
How to Get Started on Anything
Getting started on something might seem like the hardest thing to do. Your brain resists it with all its might. You can’t argue with your brain; you will lose every time. But you can trick it. Here's how...
July 8, 2018
How to Think Slow and Work Fast
Whether they write code, save lives, or serve beer, managers always want employees to step on the gas. It’s a common problem that invites a common solution: pressure. However, if you over-rely on pressure, you may break things that are hard to fix—like your reputation, or your company's.
July 6, 2018
How to Have Fun at Work
If you are a manager, you carry a double responsibility for keeping yourself in high spirits and protecting your employees from unnecessary drudgery and fun-killing pressure. Here's why...
