Did you do a double take on the title—Millennials are already managing? Millennials are not only the largest age cohort in the workforce today (over 55 million) but they make up twenty-percent of the management population. Every day ten thousand Baby Boomers become eligible to retire and the management ranks are loaded with them. Whether you are a large corporation or a small business it is important to understand how to help Millennials transition into management. Here are t

Leadership Excellence Newsletter June 2016

I often meet with companies that tell me, “Sales aren’t what we want them to be so we want you to train our reps.” While training sales reps is a large part of what I do, I often find that the biggest problem lies somewhere else…with the sales manager. Part of the problem lies in how we create sales managers. Sometimes the president, CEO or business owner manages the reps directly, even though they have little or no experience managing salespeople. In larger organizations,