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Accelerate Personal Growth

Employee: “Mike, you aren’t going to be able to attend your peer group this month.” Mike: “What? Why?” Employee: “Your flight doesn’t land until after the peer group.” Mike: “Let’s call and reschedule the flight to get in late the night before.” Employee: “But you told me not to schedule you for late flights.” Mike: “You are right. But the peer group is worth the late fight.” I attend a peer group called Allied Executives that meets monthly with other leaders in our community. It wou

Mike Kaeding

Sep 28, 2018•3 min read

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Having Fun at Work

I came back to my office, opened up my laptop, and there it was… A picture of me and Tape Face taped to my keyboard. Let me back up… Last week, I went to a conference in Las Vegas. My goal was to learn more about how to better run our company. The first night I got to Vegas I did a live Facebook stream where I showed off some of my favorite places in Las Vegas. While I was doing that I noticed a sign that said Tape Face was doing a show in Las Vegas that week. Tape Face is one of

Mike Kaeding

Sep 26, 2018•2 min read

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Hire the Right People

Getting the right job from a great company can be hard. Hiring the right person can be challenging. But having the wrong person in a team can be disastrous. We recently created a new data analyst position at our company. It’s probably my favorite role at the company. I have started doing phone interviews for the position. You can learn more about the position by visiting the following link: https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=e561b47859811d88&tk=1co3gnmohas17800 It’s a real challenge to try an

Mike Kaeding

Sep 24, 2018•2 min read

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Developing Authentic Relationships

I love connecting with people authentically. I believe it’s important for leaders to be approachable and to make time for the people around them. One of the ways we do this is through one-on-ones. Leaders who don’t spend the time necessary to build relationships won’t be respected by their staff. It’s hard to build a great company if authentic relationships haven’t been built. This is true for the workplace and I think this is also true on social media. I sometimes see social media influ

Mike Kaeding

Sep 21, 2018•1 min read

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Working with Powerful People

It can be really hard to work with people who have so much power over you. We have been working on the design for a new apartment building for months. It will be the single best building we have ever developed with a two-story front entry, an internet café, a sky lounge, a large fitness center, a pool, a modern game room, and incredible smart apartment technologies. It will also have a new office for our staff! I’m very excited about this project. We have put a lot of energy into every

Mike Kaeding

Sep 19, 2018•2 min read

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Hamline MBA Students Partner with Norhart

Over the course of summer, Norhart partnered with Dr. Jae Lee’s 16 MBA students from Hamline University. The final capstone project was to create the next generation of apartments. Currently, we manage 332 units within Forest Lake and Blaine, MN. Within the last four years, Norhart has since doubled in size. If we want to keep expanding each year, like we plan on doing, then we needed to stay current. We needed to stay ahead of our competitors. It was a win-win scenario. We would get help fr

Emily Rice

Sep 18, 2018•4 min read

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Build a Team that Loves Working Together

I laughed so hard. In fact, I think this was the hardest I have laughed in a long time. Let me back up. Our company supports a non-profit organization called Stepping Stone Emergency Housing. They do incredible work helping the homeless get back on their feet and thrive in society. We are passionate about creating a better way for people to live. Supporting Stepping Stone and the homeless is one way that we live out that passion. Stepping Stone hosted a charity golf event. Because of our p

Mike Kaeding

Sep 17, 2018•2 min read

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Great Leaders Inspire Greatness in Others

More than a decade ago, I got to meet Ken, the CEO of Toro. Toro is a company that makes lawn mowers, snow removal equipment, lawn sprinkler system, and more. They are a publicly traded company worth billions and have thousands of employees. Ken became CEO while the company was failing. Many of the senior leadership left the company because they didn’t want to be associated with the failure. Ken would say that he was one of the last remaining leaders. So, he didn’t get the job because he des

Mike Kaeding

Sep 11, 2018•2 min read