leadership

Posted on December 18, 2019 by admin

How to Cure Your Dread of Public Speaking

Zachary Scott/Getty Images Public speaking is so stressful for so many people that it is routinely used as a stress manipulation in psychological studies. Tell undergrads they have 10 minutes to prepare a speech that will be evaluated by experts, and their levels of the stress hormone cortisol shoot through the roof. Yet success in many Read More

Posted on December 18, 2019 by admin

How to Advance in Your Career When Your Boss Won’t Help

Andrew Lichtenstein/Getty Images I recently moderated a panel at a conference and asked the group of successful executives to describe someone who has been instrumental in their careers. Two panelists eagerly jumped in with stories of bosses who had mentored, encouraged, and opened doors for them. Then, hesitantly at first, the last person shared a Read More

Posted on September 17, 2019 by admin

When Is Teamwork Really Necessary?

Caspar Benson/Getty Images Most leaders assume that they need to foster teamwork among the people whom directly and indirectly report to them. Teaming is now seen as the workplace equivalent of motherhood and apple pie — invariably good. The problem is when leaders try to drive the wrong kind of collaboration on their particular teams. Read More

Posted on September 17, 2019 by admin

Boost Your Emotional Intelligence with These 3 Questions

Daniel Hurst Photography/Getty Images As the concept of emotional intelligence has gone global, we’ve watched professionals founder as they try to improve their emotional intelligence (or EI) because they either don’t know where to focus their efforts or they haven’t understood how to improve these skills on a practical level. In our work consulting with Read More

Posted on September 17, 2019 by admin

Can You Afford to Change Your Career?

anniepaddington/Getty Images Who wouldn’t want a meaningful career and better balance between work and home? For many of us, it’s finances that keep us from making a career change. Sure, our current job has lost its spark, but it’s stable. Dependable. Reliable. Steady. We worry and wonder: What would a career change do to our Read More

Posted on September 17, 2019 by admin

What to Do When You Have a Bad Boss

CSA Images/Getty Images Despite the $15 billion companies spend annually on managerial and leadership development, bad bosses are common in the American workforce.  A study by Life Meets Work found that 56% of American workers claim their boss is mildly or highly toxic. A study by the American Psychological Association found that 75% of Americans say Read More

Posted on September 17, 2019 by admin

Give Your Team the Freedom to Do the Work They Think Matters Most

Michael Steffen / EyeEm/Getty Images Since at least the time of Frederick Taylor, the father of “scientific management,” control has been central to corporate organization: Control of costs, of prices, of investment and—not least—of people. Control, even a perception of it, can be comforting. Moreover, it feels like what a manager should be doing: Setting Read More

Posted on September 17, 2019 by admin

Why I Encourage My Best Employees to Consider Outside Job Offers

Stan Tekiela Author/Getty Images Every day we get new reminders of just how tough the war for talent can be. It isn’t enough to attract the greatest employees — you have to retain them. That’s become a bigger challenge with “job hopping” on the rise. One survey found that 64% of workers, and 75% of those Read More

Posted on September 17, 2019 by admin

Make Sure Everyone on Your Team Sees Learning as Part of Their Job

Jens Magnusson/Getty Images As an executive coach, I speak regularly at corporate leadership development programs. During discussions, participants often confess the real reason they’re in the room, and it’s rarely “to grow and learn.” Time and again, the reasons include: they are checking a box on their development plan, their manager told them to come, Read More

Posted on September 17, 2019 by admin

Planning Doesn’t Have to Be the Enemy of Agile

Jon Feingersh/Getty Images Planning has long been one of the cornerstones of management. Early in the twentieth century Henri Fayol identified the job of managers as to plan, organize, command, coordinate, and control. The capacity and willingness of managers to plan developed throughout the century. Management by Objectives (MBO) became the height of corporate fashion in Read More

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