In the Workplace: How 2021 will impact business and leadership
The relentless drive to optimize created brittleness—single points of failure where one disruption could cause the entire business to collapse.
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In the Workplace: Business leaders can help stop homophobic, transphobic behavior
The LGBTQ+ community needs business leaders to better understand the bigotry that many experience every day. We need leaders to play a significant role in eliminating discriminatory behaviors that were learned outside of the workplace.
In the Workplace: Address office toxicity during ‘Great Reckoning’
Dealing with workplace toxicity can be challenging because it often depends on managers being willing to take a hard look in the mirror. And in fairness, many people are thrown into managerial roles with little or no training in interpersonal skills.
In the Workplace: Spotting and neutralizing passive aggression
Passive aggression can be much more than a mere nuisance or annoyance. It can wreak havoc on work relationships, leading to marginalizing and taking advantage of people, productivity interference and a breakdown in workplace morale.
Garrett Mintz: The power of a good one-on-one meeting
One of the most important characteristics of strong managers who engage their team and help them feel connected to the work is their ability to conduct effective one-on-one meetings with direct reports.
Mandy Haskett: Use pre-hire assessment tools the right way
The more savvy you are about curating assessments that solve the right problems the right ways, the more likely you are to win the long-term talent game.
Samantha Julka: Draw conclusions, predictions from the unsaid
To make the best predictions possible, one skill we need to hone is seeing the unsaid.
Kim and Todd Saxton: Who can be an entrepreneur? Almost any of us.
People are often surprised when we describe our professor roles as entrepreneurial. While classes and some topics might be prescribed, how we deliver content (value) to our students and what resources we use (books, articles, simulations, etc.) are based primarily on our own entrepreneurial choices.
Seth Morales: It’s time to flip your talent model on its head
There isn’t a one-size-fits-all secret recipe to fill the talent pipeline, but here are a few ideas we can offer for a springboard in customizing your own.
Mark Caswell: Creating ‘serendipitous’ moments remotely
In some ways, remote work has made communication feel less “human.” Conversations are more like transactions when every interaction is formal, scheduled and agenda-driven.
Don’t let the talent crunch derail your hiring standards
Too often in their eagerness to fill positions, recruiters can act like company cheerleaders by sharing only the most positive aspects of a job with applicants.
Kristen Cooper: Why every business leader needs a therapist and how to find one
While you might be one of the fortunate ones to have family, friends, mentors and spirituals leaders who can guide you through tough times, a psychotherapist will help you better understand yourself and those around you so you can be a better person, business owner, leader, partner, manager, team member, friend, parent and community member.
In the workplace: Be careful giving your best employees more work
Why doesn’t the reward of more hard work after a job well done motivate the most productive workers to stay with an organization? How can employers successfully appreciate employees and motivate them to maximize productivity?
In the Workplace: 4 ways to make a people strategy part of your business strategy
In fact, our team is observing that “people strategy” is becoming the No. 1 agenda item at executive-planning retreats across industry and geography.
In the workplace: Here’s how managers should handle 2021’s ‘Great Resignation’
Some executives I have interviewed have blamed working from home and the general burnout from the increased uncertainty as reasons for this struggle. Other executives blame generous unemployment benefits.
In the workplace: Data is a commodity, but insight is gold
If you are embarking on that journey and wisely trying to include stakeholders in the process, make sure to work with a researcher who knows how to help you use your data for years to come by highlighting the insights.
Kim and Todd Saxton: What businesses can learn from rock climbing
You might have missed it, buried deep in the multiple channels and time-zone differences, and between swim sets and track runs, but sport climbing made its inaugural appearance in the Olympics this year.
In the workplace: To outplay the ‘Great Resignation,’ employers must re-recruit
It is time to innovate and, to keep our best people, we absolutely have to “re-recruit” the talent we have on board.
In the workplace: Don’t lose great talent through ‘broken rungs’ in career ladder
For many years, employers have denied flexibility to parents (more specifically, mothers) due to “business needs.”
In the workplace: How to keep your best employees in a new normal
The current market for proficient and skilled workers is tight, and it is getting increasingly competitive.