Why and How to Treat Your Employees like Your Clients (or Better!)

For a team to truly achieve its potential, bosses need to treat employees like clients. Not just the other way around.

ThinkingLeslie FarnsworthFebruary 23, 2022employees, management, leadershipComment

The Cover Letter Gets You Hired

Want the job? Put your shoulder into your cover letter. The resume just provides supporting detail.

ThinkingLeslie FarnsworthAugust 26, 2020business, employees, hiringComment

Ideas for Online Team Building Activities

Here are a few tried-and-tested fantastic options for teambuilding events and activities for distributed workforces.

ThinkingLeslie FarnsworthAugust 19, 2020distributed workforce, employees, leadershipComment

COVID-19 Proves Nothing about Working from Home

No one can possibly imagine that what we experienced working from home during COVID-19 provided a true litmus test for working remotely on the employer, manager, or employer sides.

ThinkingLeslie FarnsworthJune 16, 2020employees, management, leadership, distributed workforceComment

Will Crisis-Driven Authenticity Last?

The coronavirus crisis forced many people to drop pretense and futile attempts at perfection and simply act like real, flawed, often-awkward human beings.

ThinkingLeslie FarnsworthJune 9, 2020culture, business, management, employees, leadership, coronavirus diariesComment

Crisis Resources for Business Leaders

I’ve compiled a list of links and resources that I hope can help anyone in a leadership role in business better navigate these challenging times.

ThinkingLeslie FarnsworthMarch 24, 2020business, leadership, employeesComment

Why and How to Treat Your Boss as Your Client

A broader swath of the workforce should adjust their mindsets to approach the work from the same perspective.

ThinkingLeslie FarnsworthJuly 22, 2019employees, management, business, leadershipComment

Survey Says: Virtual Employees Have Higher Engagement

A recent international survey of employees found that virtual workers have higher engagement than corporate-office workers.

Common Challenges for Structuring Marketing in Corporations

Through experience, I’ve discovered commonalities in companies seeking to improve their marketing departments and marketing results.

ThinkingLeslie FarnsworthMay 22, 2019marketing, business, employees, goalsComment

How to Manage Up

Managing up could solve a lot of workplace ills—and that few people think to do it or realize that they should do it.

ThinkingLeslie FarnsworthApril 16, 2019management, business, employeesComment

How to Transition from In-Office Teams to Remote-Work Teams or a Distributed Workforce

Here’s what I learned from other CEOs and executives and through my own experience (so far) of transitioning my in-office employees to a distributed workforce structure.

Best Practices for Structuring and Managing Distributed Workforces

Considering a distributed workforce? Here’s my experience-based how-to on structuring and managing one.

ThinkingLeslie FarnsworthApril 3, 2019business, management, leadership, employees, distributed workforceComment

The Distributed Workforce: Benefits and Caveats

After a year of a distributed workforce, I’ve uncovered the following caveats and benefits for employers considering a distributed workforce structure for their teams.

ThinkingLeslie FarnsworthMarch 28, 2019business, hiring, employees, management, leadership, culture, distributed workforceComment

Diary for March 24, 2019

Transition seems like the theme of the past year, and this month has shown no exception. Fortunately—as with all the transitions this past year—the shifts of March 2019 have proved good ones.

JournalLeslie FarnsworthMarch 24, 2019business, employees, management, hiring, leadershipComment