Leaders need to demonstrate empathy, vulnerability, and transparency. Further, they need to hold their people accountable and hold difficult or critical conversations before challenges get out of hand. Vicki Z. Lauter explains how to do this with...
Have you ever been lied to? How did it make you feel? Stop for a minute and let that feeling sink in. It doesn’t feel so good, does it?
Millennials are more likely to lie than older generations to their employers and sabotage their...
Communication whether verbal or written is a given if you work in a business. Some of us are very comfortable speaking openly to a variety of people and some of us would rather spend time in our office working alone than chatting up colleagues or...
Firing the executive on your team that doesn’t support the company strategy? Telling your employee they aren’t going to head the project you originally promised? Explaining to the company why the quarterly bonuses you promised won’t be...
No one is born a leader. There may have been people in history that were born to be a leader but it takes practice and experience to become a leader that others will trust and follow.
Erika Andersen notes in her book Leading So People Will Follow...
When it comes to leadership I can’t help but think about the K.I.S.S. principle (keep it simple stupid). People are complicated beings but we all like be treated with dignity and respect – simple right?
I recently heard from a longtime...
There are so many interesting aspects to Emotional Intelligence (EQ). When I first started learning about EQ I was skeptical as most of you may be. However, as I started to dig more into what EQ is all about and how a higher EQ can help one not...
For the last post of the month I took this topic to the street and received feedback from many of my colleagues that manage a team of employees. I found that managers are a divided group when it comes to the performance review.
Several managers...
You know you have one or more employees that stands head and shoulders above the rest of your team. Why not take a few minutes each day and nurture them so they will become even more amazing than they already are. This list of ten things can help...
