Advice from the Pros: What Makes a Security Integrator Successful?
Each month we bring a leading PSA integrator to the stage to get to know them a little better with our featured integrator spotlights. Over the last year we’ve heard some great tips when we’ve…
Three Tips to Help Your Team Succeed
What steps should managers take to ensure their teams are up to speed on their training and on track for success? Turns out, setting goals is just the tip of the iceberg! Personal accountability can…
Security Leadership Series: Don’t Stress Over PRESSURE
Pressure, unlike stress, can be a positive force of continued growth and performance if managed correctly… Find the full article ‘Security Leadership Series: Don’t Stress Over PRESSURE’ here. By Kim Garcia, PSA Director of Marketing Stress and pressure…
Why the Best Bosses Delegate
By Kim Garcia, PSA Director of Marketing My entire career has been spent in small marketing departments (the biggest one ever being a whopping five people). I am used to working in settings where I…
PSA TEC 2017 | Leadership Committee Session Summaries
PSA TEC 2017 was an amazing conference with top-notch quality education. Some of the most productive and well-attended sessions were hosted and delivered by PSA Committees. The PSA Leadership Committee hosted two education sessions: Leadership…
It’s Your Ship | Book Review and Summary | PSA Leadership Committee
Summary and mini-review by: Mary E. Feury, President Altec Systems, Inc. It’s Your Ship – Author: Captain D. Michael Abrashoff, former commander, USS Benfold In reading this New York Times Business bestseller, It’s Your Ship…
Team Building for Harmony
By: Christine Lanning, President, Integrated Security Technologies and Chair of the PSA Leadership Committee Team Building for Harmony The Northland challenge is a team building/ community service project conceptualized by Northland Controls, one of North America’s…
Leadership Lesson: Finding Focus
In order to be a more effective leader, you must think, inspire, energize, connect, and act like a leader. Here is a quick tip to help escalate your success as a leader by finding focus:…
Making Things Right: A Lesson in Customer Service
Several years ago, a few weeks before her husband’s birthday, a female customer named Amy stopped into an electronics store to buy a new TV for her husband. Since this was a top-of-the-line TV, she…
PSA Leadership Book Club February Meeting Recap | Part III
Turn the Ship Around! by L. David Marquet Book Summary* “Leadership should mean giving control rather than taking control and creating leaders rather than forging followers.” David Marquet, an experienced Navy officer, was used to giving…