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Apr 2, 2019
3 min

The Manager's Bermuda Triangle

Hi there!! Russell Stratton, president and leadership champion with Bluegem Learning. I work with organizations just like yours to help managers improve individual and team performance so they get even better results for your business. In the last couple of VLOGS I've been discussing the topic of Leading from the Middle and there's been a lot of emphasis on how we can lead within the organization when you are in the middle of the organization and you have people working for

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Mar 25, 2019
4 min

Influencing Strategies for Managers & Employees

I'm Russell Stratton, President and Leadership Champion with Bluegem Learning. I work with organizations just like yours to help managers improve individual and team performance so that they get even better results for your business. In my previous article in our Leading from The Middle Series, I discussed the unique position that a lot of middle managers find themselves in. Specifically I was providing some analysis as to our positional power in different types of organiz

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Mar 19, 2019
3 min

Eat or Be Eaten: Know the Political Landscape in your Organization?

Hi there. Russell Stratton, President and Leadership Champion with Bluegem Learning. I work with organizations just like yours to help managers improve individual and team performance to get even better results for your business. The topic I'd like to come back to today is this concept of Leading from the Middle, which I've spoken about briefly before. Middle managers in an organization are in a unique position... They are stuck bang slat in the middle of the organization. Th

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Mar 15, 2019
11 min

Effective Leadership When You're Stuck In The Middle

“Why can’t I just tell the bastards what to do?” asked the Commander squinting at the diagram in front of him. He adjusted his cap to block out the light, which caused the sun to glint off his cap-badge. I could tell the veteran Borough Commander was half-joking, but it was the half that wasn’t joking that worried him. Fergus, however, was unfazed. “Because, you old sod,” retorted Fergus in the same tone. “the world has changed under your feet in case you hadn’t noticed.” F

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Mar 5, 2019
3 min

Three Contenders for The WORST Boss EVER

Hi there. Russell Stratton, president of Leadership Champion with Bluegem Learning. Over the last 25 years I've worked with a range of organizations to improve bottom line productivity. In the last couple of blogs I've been talking about Managing Your Boss. As I've said before, this is one of the key topics that people come to talk to me about after my workshops. How do I deal with my boss? And often they've brought an anecdote or a story to tell me about the person they're w

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Feb 25, 2019
3 min

How To Manage Your Boss in Four Simple Steps

Hi there, Russell Stratton, President and Leadership Champion with Bluegem Learning. For the last 25 years I've worked with organizations to develop leaders to maximize team performance and improve bottom line productivity. In our last vlog we were talking about the seven types of bad boss and as I was saying, this is one of the most common topics that people come up to me after my workshops and say, "Hey Russ, how do I deal with managing my boss?" So we identified the seven

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Feb 22, 2019
3 min

The 7 Warning Signs of a BAD Boss

Hi there. Russell Stratton, President and Leadership Champion with Bluegem Learning. For the last 25 years I've worked with organizations to develop leaders so that they can maximize team performance and improve bottom line productivity. One of the questions I get asked at a lot of my workshops is... "How do I deal with a bad boss?" This seems to be the number one topic that participants have in their mind. How do I deal with a bad boss? So it got me thinking about people Id

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Feb 15, 2019
6 min

The Survivors Guide To Managing Your Boss

People don’t leave their job - they leave their boss. The business relationship you have with your immediate manager, your boss, is one of, if not the most important relationships you have at work. A good boss can help you progress your career to new heights... ...a bad boss can be like a dead weight around your neck and leave you frustrated and searching the job adverts. In the course of my work I regularly get people come and tell me about their “problem” boss and ask what

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Aug 31, 2018
3 min

Want To Train Your Managers For The Real World? Try Using Customized Simulations

Transcript: Hi there. I'm Russell Stratton, President and Leadership Champion with Bluegem Learning. I work with organizations just like yours to help leaders and managers become even more effective and help them improve individual and team performance. One of the things I wanted to talk to you about today was how do we go about developing leaders? You've no doubt attended courses in the past where you've had some great information. You've had a really engaging trainer who's

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Feb 28, 2018
2 min

Do your corporate workshops, have participants engaged, motivated and able to put what they've l

Transcript: Hi, Russell Stratton from Bluegem Learning, working with organizations just like yours to transform average bosses into exceptional leaders. So one of the things that clients often ask me is about how do we make our leadership workshops as impactful as possible, and how do we get the best return on investment that we can? What I talk to them about is saying, well, it's great to have a workshop that people enjoy. It's great to have a workshop where they're going to

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Feb 21, 2018
3 min

Forget the "Happy Sheets", how to evaluate your corporate workshops for maximum impact.

Transcript: Hi there. Russell Stratton from Bluegem Learning. I work with organizations just like yours help transform average bosses into exceptional leaders. Now, one of the things that my clients will often talk to me about when we're putting a workshop program together is, how are we going to evaluate the results? How will we know that there's been any change in behavior? Or, if the things that we promised that we'd do have actually happened? Quite often what people have

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