Increasing Respect for Educators
Visit the Crucial Skills blog to read David Maxfield’s answer to this question: How can teachers reclaim their credibility and gain the public’s understanding of our specific duties?
Posts by David Maxfield
Managing Without Authority
I work for a Fortune 500 company that sets the bar high for management performance standards, and results are based on numbers and production. Because hourly employees are covered under a local union contract that mediates the actions that are punishable, many feel that their lack of following processes and methods is acceptable.
Speaking Up For the Patient
Visit the Crucial Skills blog to read David Maxfield’s answer to this question: Can you help me find the right words to speak up to physicians who dismiss a patient’s pain?
Dealing with Workplace Harassment
Visit the Crucial Skills blog to read David Maxfield’s answer to this question: Do you have any advice for dealing with sexual harassment in the workplace?
Overcoming Career-Limiting Habits
Visit the Crucial Skills blog to read David Maxfield’s answer to this question: “Do you have any advice for overcoming my career-limiting habits so I can finally get the promotion I’ve been working so hard to earn?”
How to Finally Get Out of Debt
Visit the Crucial Skills blog to read David Maxfield’s answer to this question: “Do you have any tips for motivating ourselves to get out of debt by turning it into a game we can win and enjoy playing?”
How to Motivate Others to Change
Visit the Crucial Skills blog to read David Maxfield’s answer to this question: “How can I make improvement sound ‘cool’ so my colleagues don’t feel like I’m forcing them to change?”
How to Develop Your People
Visit the Crucial Skills blog to read David Maxfield’s Crucial Skills Newsletter article, “How to Develop Your People.”
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workplace safety
Overcoming Resistance to Safety Standards
Visit the Crucial Skills blog to read David Maxfield’s response to this question: “How can I create long-term change and encourage employees to take responsibility for creating a safe work environment?”
How to Act and Not React
Visit the Crucial Skills blog to read David Maxfield’s answer to this question: How can I learn to be proactive instead of reactive?