Jeff Butler - Workplace Expert

Trusting your gut in decisionmaking can often lead to unreliable solutions to simple problems. People argue that you need to fail in order to learn from your mistakes. But can people learn from all of their mistakes? Well, NO.

6 Common Mistakes You Need To Avoid When Making Decisions Unfortunately, trusting your gut in managerial decision making can often lead to unreliable solutions to simple problems.

If ever there’s a time in the year marketers look forward to, it’s the holiday season.
If you're a marketer, have you tried incorporating these marketing tips in last year's holiday season?
If yes, what revamps are you planning this holiday?
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When you’re working with someone, you need to make sure where they want to go in their career. I sat down with Nathan of Yoyomeeting to share how imperative for employers to genuinely pay attention to their employees through 1v1 meetings. See here:

How Great Managers Approach 1v1 Meetings with Employees ⋆ yoyomeeting.com The best managers value 1v1 meetings because they value employees that work for them. An organization is only going to be as good as they...

If you are an expert in the negotiation then this post would probably waste your time BUT I would love to hear your views.
https://jeffjbutler.com/2019/02/24/5-steps-to-effective-negotiation/

5 Steps to Effective Negotiation - Jeff Butler Speaking Probably the toughest words you can hear when you first start out in negotiation. Whether it's a job offer, an off the rack t-shirt price, or a car,

So I learned a lesson a couple of weeks ago.

About "BEING PREPARED."

Now in Nashville for 43rd Annual Convention general session and roundtables for 3 days!

Here's a head start for the first day: POWER BREAKFAST and NOTES.

The end of was a horror😱😱😱 for me.

I'm supposed to travel✈️ from Boston to California, then California to Victoria, Then Victoria to Calgary.

I realized I forgot my passport when I arrived in California. So I have to purchase this last minute ticket ☝️ back to Boston. Then headed to a gig🎤 at Calgary.

Unfortunately, I was not able to meet at Victoria as planned.😔 But there's always a next time. 😉

Traveling across US in a day no fun, I'm telling you. 😣😣😣

Just about every company that I worked as a software engineer had an amazing onboarding experience. You would get free swag but had to sit through a boring Powerpoint presentation about company culture.

While the culture part comes across as boring as Henry Fonda picking blueberries, its monumental to handling age-diverse workplaces.

With new hires, it’s important to assimilate them into the culture as soon as possible. Now, while that may seem Borg-like for you Star Trek fans out there, note that if someone is too different in a culture, and if the culture nor the person change, conflict can arise.

The first step to assimilation or finding the common working ground is specifying the cultural expectations as soon as possible.

Here are a few items that should be covered during a strong onboarding experience:

I read a book called The Essential Drucker by Peter Drucker who stated that the blue-collar industry is the fastest growing industry but also fastest to disappear.

Now a lot of companies put the blame on Millennials saying that they don’t want to get their hands dirty or put in hard work.

Shoutout to Millennials, do find this to be true?

After a 2-week break from travelling, I'm at it again!
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There are countless if not thousands of articles written on the dynamics of management. Everything from Bottom Up Management, One Minute Management to Six Sigma Management.

However, most management forms are written for white-collar work where there is a subordinate and a manager where both can terminate the relationship without serious organizational repercussions.

Unfortunately, that style and approach do not fly as well if someone is managing in a union environment.

So, if you are one of those managers (latter), how do you manage your employees who are part of a union?

https://jeffjbutler.com/2019/02/20/when-is-college-too-expensive-to-go/

When is college too expensive to go? - Jeff Butler Speaking With college increasing 268% in the past 40 years and continues to climb, at some point college will be too expensive. Like many other Millennials, I decided to bite the bullet and go. After 5 years, I accumulated over $35,000 of debt and was ready to start my career as a software engineer. Fortunat...