Unleashing the full capacity of your people
This is always a fun time of the year. You gain an hour of light, your favorite plants and flowers decide to show off, playoff hockey and basketball are in full swing. Winter is gone but Game of Thrones is back! With the summer months around the corner and obligations piling up, it’s important to stay self-aware and constantly assess your hot spots and blind spots to ensure you make …
It’s Important to understand the competencies required for superior performance. With our new DNA Position Analysis tool, we can help you pinpoint the top competencies for any position.
A leader’s ability to motivate and influence employees stems from trust. It can be hard to earn, yet easy to lose. When building trust, do your best to stay consistent, do as you say, build in accountability and …
There is no “one size fits all” approach to feedback. That’s not how people work. We all interpret things differently—through our own filters. Especially when it comes to feedback. In some circumstance it can make or break a relationship and/or career. But when done well, it helps make people better. Thus, making it important to practice.
Leaves are changing colors and Pumpkin Spiced Lattes are back! That can only mean one thing, summer is over and the holiday season is upon us. With that said, it’s imperative to dedicate time and energy in thinking of ways to stay focused and effective.
We have written more than once about how infectious great leadership behavior is, and how it drives up team engagement and productivity.
The inverse situation is all too common, too: Poor attitudes and negative behavior can infect a team with low morale and depressed productivity.
As a leader, you need to remain alert for such developments, and work actively to isolate and fix the source of the negative influence.…
Research confirms that downtime regularly interspersed into our working lives raises our energy and ability to focus. We live in a 24/7 world, so leaders must actively work on shielding their people from work "alerts" during their time off. Engagement rises when employees can disengage at night and on weekends.
The end of March is the first big milestone of the business year. It’s time to run your first in-depth check-in with your team, as a group and individually, to realign purpose and energy with your goals. Here are some areas of focus for your discussions as you work together to plan out a highly productive second quarter of 2018.
Favoritism as a leadership habit corrodes employee morale and reduces engagement. How to eliminate this bad habit? Fours steps to take.
Why does culture still upend strategy? Why do companies still struggle to execute their carefully researched and thought-out strategic initiatives, even if they make tons of sense? Employee engagement.
Organizations try to choose talented employees and nurture them as future leaders. This leads to poor choices. So, create a system where the true cream of the talent pool rises to the top naturally.