by Steven Vaughan | Jul 9, 2021 | Business Management Consulting, Keynote Speaker, Performance Management Consulting, Productivity Improvement
I watched the movie White Nights many years ago, but there was a scene that had a great line that I never forgot. Apparently it was a common Russian phrase that went, “We pretend to work, and they pretend to pay us.” What a great description of Communism....
by Steven Vaughan | Jun 28, 2021 | Keynote Speaker, Performance Management Consulting, Principles of Life
A story is told of a time many years ago in the Great Smoky Mountains when some pigs got loose and ran off into the wild. No one thought much about it until they multiplied, became wild, and destructive. The people in the area thought they could hunt them all down,...
by Steven Vaughan | Jun 14, 2021 | Employee Retention Strategies, Keynote Speaker, Performance Management Consulting, Principles of Life
If you chuckled knowingly at the title to this post, you are likely on the older side. How do I know? Because I am on the older side. For the rest of you, this was a popular song by Morris Albert that came out in 1974 (or as one of my daughters put it, “way back...
by Steven Vaughan | Jun 11, 2021 | Employee Retention Strategies, Keynote Speaker, Performance Management Consulting, Small Business & Entrepreneur Coach
As of this writing, I have two of my six kids engaged to be married. I am so excited that I am going to be a grandpa someday I can hardly sit still thinking about it. One reason I can’t wait for grandkids is I want to see how my kids handle the fulfillment of...
by Steven Vaughan | Jun 7, 2021 | Business Management Consulting, Employee Retention Strategies, Performance Management Consulting, Small Business & Entrepreneur Coach
There’s a problem in the workforce today that is costing businesses all over the world billions if not trillions of dollars each year. In case you haven’t guessed by the picture, it’s zombies. A Zombie is that employee who just goes through the...
by Steven Vaughan | Jun 2, 2021 | Keynote Speaker, Performance Management Consulting, Productivity Improvement, Purpose-Driven Organizations, Small Business & Entrepreneur Coach
In this post, we will finish the Goals and Achievement process by turning your Dreams into measurable Goals that you can track and see when thay are completed. If you have not read the previous posts, please go and read You Gotta Have Goals, then Dare to...