Your company’s success hinges on its employees. If you have excessive employee turnover, and you are always spending time training new employees, then you are suffering immensely. You are spending out more money than necessary, you see productivity decrease, you have unhappy customers because they aren’t building quality relationships...
On a world-wide scale, unresolved conflicts exist all around us, from the current US election to the struggles between nations and the disagreements between large, public companies. Conflicts also show themselves to us on smaller, more personal scales, and those may be more important because they tend to affect...
When it comes to leadership development, many middle managers get left behind. Companies invest in training their new employees to be good employees and they train their executives to be better leaders, but they don’t spend much effort or dollars developing the group that needs it the most. Often,...
According to a 2016 Merger & Acquisitions (M&A) survey by KPMG, 91% of companies planned to initiate at least one acquisition in 2016. That’s a significant jump from 63% in 2014. These transactions can be highly stressful and a lot of work and sweat for all involved. Executives would...
Everyone fails at some point in his or her career. It happens to even the most successful leaders. Apple fired Steve Jobs. Western Union fired Thomas Edison for secretly conducting experiments in his office. Walt Disney’s newspaper editor told him he wasn’t creative enough and then fired him. A...
According to the PEW Research Center, roughly 10,000 baby boomers (born post–World War II, approximately 1946 to 1964) will turn 65 today; about 10,000 more will celebrate that milestone every day for the next 14 years. As baby boomers age and move toward retirement, companies need to have their...
Effective leadership is also self-aware leadership. If you’ve held leadership positions during your career, you know there are times when your approach resonates with those following you and times when they don’t. Or do you? The ability to self-assess will help you see when your leadership resonates with others...
Often times asking a provoking question can serve as a greater catalyst of innovation than providing the right answer. The right question can be a disruptive agent, cutting through years of complacency to redirect a team or a company’s focus. It serves as a pointer, aiming us in the...