Mike Bacon Solutions

10/01/2025

If you do a lot of typing on your iPhone, you need to invest 8 minutes on this video. Some of these tips made me squeal and are real time-savers and frustration-busters.

02/06/2025

High-performing teams frequently act as the backbone of thriving organizations. They encourage innovation and achieve remarkable results. Recognizing the qualities that contribute to these teams' effectiveness is crucial for any organization seeking to enhance productivity and foster a positive workplace culture. Let's examine six essential characteristics that distinguish high-performing teams and discuss ways to cultivate these traits for success in both the team and the organization.

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02/03/2025

ARE YOU BEING MANAGED OR LEAD AT WORK?

Becoming a MANAGER means you have shown the potential to LEAD a team. “Manager” is just a title, it means that the person has been given the opportunity to prove that they can “lead” others.

Being a leader means you have earned the respect and demonstrated the vision and values that cause your team to want to follow you by improving their own performance, helping others succeed and thus making YOU successful.

Far too often, in fact usually, people are promoted because they are the top performers in their field. That has no bearing on their leadership skills or potential. Ironically, a top performer is likely not going to be a great leader because they have some natural ability in their field and they won’t necessarily understand the struggles of the low or average performer. A leader uses their talent to leverage the skills of individuals to elevate everyone’s performance and achieve results.

Managers have a binary checklist of metrics and tasks and a uniform performance management system. Management leads to a top-to-bottom stack-ranking of employees and a process to address low performance and reward top performers.

It is much easier for a person with leadership skills to learn to manage people than for a manager to learn to be a good leader.

Are you being managed or lead? What about you? Are you a manager or a leader?

08/25/2024

04/17/2023

Got trapped in a rabbit hole on household cleaning and repair hacks and came across this gem. You're welcome.

03/21/2023

Your iPhone can call for help with no cell or wifi service. Whaaaaaat?

You might think that the title of this video is a bit outlandish, but I stand by my belief - your iPhone can save your life. Whether it's detecting that you'...

07/17/2022

Time to see who's paying attention to my page.

I'm going to start posting tips on personal organization and time management again, so let's kick it off with a give-away.

Tell me what your biggest challenge is with managing your time, your to-do list and everything else you juggle in life.

For everyone who responds, I'll put your name in for a random draw for a Daytimer system ready to go for July-December 2022. (pick-up only)

01/20/2021

Something many of us can relate to. It's even harder in these pandemic days when you are on a conference call or video call.

But before you try any of the techniques to improve your attention span, see what you can do to help make the meetings better. If you are having trouble staying focused, chances are you aren't the only one.

A university employee asks how to survive her department's hour-plus meetings, but is it her fault she can't focus?

11/16/2020

The most important part of a meeting is the follow-up and actions that come after.

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Instead of a quick, in-person debrief with your teammate about a missed meeting, more work-from-home professionals are performing meeting recaps and updates, digitally.