As a softball 🥎 coach, I constantly tell my players that their best ability is availability. These young women truly understand that if they are not physically and mentally ready to go, their value is diminished, and the potential success of the team is compromised. 👎

As leaders, our best ability is accessibility. The more our employees view us as physically, emotionally and mentally available to them, the better leaders we will be and the more successful our employees will become. 🙌

In this week's video, using a clip from the movie 🎥 "Remember the Titans," I identify three "musts" for all leaders.

Leaders - I promise that if you follow these steps, you make yourself more accessible to your employees and, in so doing, you will in a true and meaningfully way increase those employees' experience and performance:

1️⃣ Humanize yourself. 💙

2️⃣ Show interest in your employee's interests. 🙏

3️⃣ Bring the open door to your employees. 🚪

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Michael S. Cohen is a partner in Duane Morris’ Employment, Labor, Benefits and Immigration Practice Group. He concentrates his practice in the areas of employment law training and counseling. Michael is a nationally-recognized thought leader on workplace culture and human resources issues. He has trained and counseled employers throughout the country and regularly conducts more than 200 trainings each year.

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