Jef Menguin is a leadership development consultant, motivational speaker, and founder of Strategic Learning Consultants. He helps CEOs, HR leaders, and L&D teams connect leadership development to business goals and turn strategic priorities into daily leadership behavior.
Management guru Peter Drucker said that as soon as you move one step up from the bottom, your effectiveness depends on your ability to reach others through the spoken and written word. You must illustrate what they do not see, give reasons to actions, and
Vital behaviors are the smallest set of actions that lead to the results you want. They are the few high-leverage actions that if you keep doing, produce the outcomes you’re after.
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Team building initiatives fail because of unclear objectives, and playing games that destroy collaboration and teamwork.
Today is the best time to write your book because today is what we have. Yesterday has passed, and we cannot do anything about it. Tomorrow is not certain, you might get busy. Today is the only day we have. I dreamt of writing a
When you lose your passion for excellence, mediocrity creeps in quietly—missed details, weaker standards, and a slow drop in pride. In this article, Jef Menguin shows how to protect your standards through simple habits and sharper self-leadership, especially when work feels routine. Use it, then pass it to your team so “good enough” stops becoming the culture.
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That’s the one question that matter the most to your customer.
Your presentation must be able to answer that question concisely and convincingly.
People who do not take accountability for their results have excuses. The mistakes are often not theirs. Someone else made a mistake. Or something is lacking. Or that the stars were misaligned.
Everyone wants you to fit in. Everyone wants you to mold yourself into the desired image. The fastest way to please everyone, the easiest way to connect with everyone, is to follow what everyone desires. You must fit it. Wrong. Everyone in your church does
There are a thousand reasons why employees get easily stressed at work. This is why it is very important that you get to customize your stress management workshop. Yes, I will help you. My job is to help you pinpoint the best solutions to your
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Today, I can choose a wait-and-see attitude. That means I can choose to watch Netflix the whole morning, then check my emails to find out if there are inquiries for leadership training.
Because you want your people to give excellent service, you must give them excellent service. Business owners are quick to accept that every manager and supervisor must model excellence. That way they’ll get the respect of their subordinates. Managers and supervisors are expected to perform
We are here because this is where we want to be. What’s wrong with our educational system? Our children our learning from sick textbooks. We have school heads who are more of order takers than leaders. And we have transactional teachers whose aims are simply
Our schools are products of many opposing perspectives. To blame teachers for the huge achievement gap is sticking to one but missing the others. The problem isn’t as easy to solve as most of us think it is. This is a wicked problem. I was
To help teachers become transformational teachers, we must understand why they resist change. One tool that we can use is an empathy map. You cannot help teachers improve unless you know where they are coming from. You cannot go to their schools and tell them
Change is emotional. When change is not handled properly, problems multiply. Let us be careful. Most of the seminars given to Filipino teachers are meant to fix them. In my last post, I talked about how consultants, when invited to speak before teachers, tend to
Dear School Principals, Claim your power to build great schools– communities where your children, the hopes of this country, will be formed and nurtured. I say this because I know that many school principals are required to display the mission-vision-values statements at the school facade.
Discover effective team building activities to enhance dynamics and performance. A comprehensive guide for facilitators and managers to foster stronger teams.
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You do not want a divided workplace. But every time you choose games that make one team winners and another team losers, you are practically aiming for at least half of your team to become losers — and when you process the result of the games, you cannot simply say that one team did not win because their members have less teamwork.