Lolly Daskal
FEBRUARY 28, 2023
Good communication is a core principle of leadership. In my work as an executive coach, I stress communication to my clients every day. Two problems in particular seem to have the worst consequences when it comes to communication: Mistake No.1: Secrecy. Leadership requires transparency. That’s part of the reason that leaders who pride themselves on their authority often find themselves in trouble.
AIHR
MARCH 3, 2023
Effective performance management helps organizations ensure that employees understand their roles, receive constructive feedback, and have the support they need to achieve their goals and business objectives. Let’s look at what performance management is, what the performance management process looks like, and some examples. Contents What is performance management?
This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.
Forbes Leadership
FEBRUARY 26, 2023
When racist situations occur in schools, Black students, their parents and family members, and Black educators often deem educational leaders’ responses inadequate.
Association Now Leadership
FEBRUARY 26, 2023
Communicating your association’s reason for being is essential for leaders. A simple rubric can help distill your complex activities into a powerful narrative. Associations are often told that they need to “tell a story” around their mission, and the news these days is full of examples of how complicated that can be. The machines aren’t getting storytelling right: Microsoft launched an AI chatbot that quickly gained a reputation for being “ weird and creepy.
Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions
💢 Do you find yourself stuck in never-ending review cycles? Are you wondering if your Subject Matter Expert actually got that last review request? Are you having trouble trying to decipher impractical or conflicting feedback? 💢 If any of these scenarios sounds familiar, you may benefit from a crash course on managing SME relationships!
Lolly Daskal
FEBRUARY 27, 2023
As a CEO, success isn’t just about achieving your own personal goals. It’s also about driving the success of your organization and its employees. Here are the top ten habits of successful CEOs that get results: Prioritizing time: Successful CEOs focus on the most important tasks and responsibilities. They use their time and resources efficiently.
Nir Eyal
FEBRUARY 27, 2023
You wake up in the morning irritable and groggy but determined to be productive. Yesterday didn’t go well. You didn’t complete even the one big priority project that would have taken just a couple of hours if you’d focused. Still, you spent all day on the computer, even leaving your partner to handle dinnertime alone and canceling pickleball with friends.
OrgDev Digest brings together the best content for management professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Association Now Leadership
MARCH 1, 2023
While you may think spring training is only relevant for professional baseball players, it’s a good training tool for boards too. One leadership and communication expert shares how spring training, or consistent training, makes for more effective boards and stronger associations. It’s officially spring training season for Major League Baseball. But this type of training isn’t just for professional athletes.
Lolly Daskal
MARCH 1, 2023
Recognizing employees for their hard work and contributions to the company is important for several reason, and recognizing employee for their specific contributions to the company is even more important. Saying “good job” doesn’t cover the details of which people put in effort and perseverance, so it’s important to go beyond that when giving recognition.
Kellogg Insight
MARCH 1, 2023
We prefer to work for people who can make themselves vulnerable, a new study finds. But there are limits.
Forbes Leadership
FEBRUARY 28, 2023
The home health crisis impacts not only a vulnerable workforce, but the patients and families who find themselves navigating complicated logistical and emotionally fraught issues as they attempt to find long-term care for their loved ones.
Implementing new tools or business processes in your organization? Lemon Learning put together a practical 3 part guide to prevent the pitfalls of change management. Drive a successful change management project from diagnosis through to measurement.
Vantage Circle
FEBRUARY 28, 2023
National Good Samaritan Day is celebrated on March 13 of every year. It is a day to recognize and celebrate the selfless good deeds of Good Samaritans. Be it helping an elderly cross a road or rescuing someone selflessly, all acts of kindness that do not seek rewards fall under being a good Samaritan. What is Good Samaritan Day? This day is celebrated in honor of Catherine "Kitty" Genovese.
Lolly Daskal
MARCH 3, 2023
Showing appreciation to your employees is important for building a positive work culture and for retaining top talent. Additionally, when employees feel valued and recognized, they are more likely to be engaged, motivated, and productive. Here are five simple ways to show your appreciation to your employees: Offer verbal praise and encouragement: Demonstrate appreciation for your employees by offering verbal praise and encouragement.
Chief Executive
MARCH 2, 2023
At many companies, leadership development involves identifying top performers and moving them into management positions, with the expectation that leadership skills will naturally develop while they’re in that role. But here’s a tough truth: Not every top performer will make a good manager—and some will never get there. People who master their own fields generally rely on a combination of natural talents, training experiences and acquired skills; successful leadership requires a tota
Forbes Leadership
MARCH 1, 2023
We all experience issues in the workplace that make us miserable. Getting laid off, losing out on a promotion and raise or being ordered to return to the office mentally and emotionally beats you down. Many mundane annoyances build up over time, making you feel disengaged from your job and company.
Speaker: Tim Buteyn
Let's set the scene: you’ve identified a critical performance gap in your organization and need to close that gap. A colleague suggests training, but you suspect there’s something going on that training can’t address. How can you determine if training is the right solution before you commit your budget and resources to a new training program? In this webinar, you will learn how to determine if training is the right solution using the Behavior Engineering Model.
Vantage Circle
FEBRUARY 25, 2023
If your goal is to promote your organization's growth, investing in your employees is important. You must provide opportunities for your employees to engage, participate and offer feedback. Employees who do that are more likely to do quality work and foster a healthy work atmosphere. One effective way to achieve this is to form an employee engagement committee.
Lolly Daskal
MARCH 2, 2023
Emotional intelligence, also known as EQ, is the ability to understand and manage emotions of self and others. It is an important trait for leaders, as it enables them to effectively interact with and manage others. Here are some reasons why emotional intelligence matters in leadership: Emotional intelligence enables leaders to build strong relationships with their team.
Chief Executive
MARCH 3, 2023
Setting the right inventory makes all the difference between success and failure in today’s uncertain, unstable business environment. Yesterday’s core inventory metrics — inventory turnover (cost of goods ÷ average inventory) and inventory GMROI (gross margin ÷ inventory cost) — fail to provide the essential information that managers need to avoid the twin problems of missing critical potential profits while having to write off large tranches of costly inventory.
Forbes Leadership
MARCH 1, 2023
It can be challenging for leaders to help team members better understand and appreciate the distinct perspectives and experiences that their teammates from different backgrounds bring to the table.
Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions
We’ve all been there. You’ve been given a pile of dry content and asked to create a compelling eLearning course. You’re determined to create something more engaging than the same old course that learners quickly click through, but how do you take this “boring” content and create something relevant and engaging? Many instructional designers will say, “Boring in means boring out.
Vantage Circle
FEBRUARY 26, 2023
The USA has its own list of unique holidays and celebrations, and Juneteenth is one of a kind in that list. After getting recognized as a federal holiday in 2021, more companies are incorporating Juneteenth into their DEI initiatives. However, finding activities that answer how to celebrate juneteenth at work is tricky. Just like any other celebration, this day calls for a commemoration.
Thought Leaders LLC
FEBRUARY 28, 2023
Jay Jung explains how small businesses can prepare for a recession by investing in finance and creating a restructuring plan. Today’s guest post is by Jay Jung, Founder and Managing Partner at Embarc Advisors. While Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has recently dismissed fears of a recession, other economists disagree. Whether or not the US is on the verge of a recession today, wise business leaders are always prepared for one.
Chief Executive
MARCH 2, 2023
On the surface, it seems to make good business sense. When faced with a downturn in the economy, executives may consider scaling back on what could be deemed as non-critical initiatives. And while there are some cost-cutting measures that make sense, reducing diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I) efforts could in fact cost companies in the long run.
Forbes Leadership
FEBRUARY 28, 2023
Great strides are being made to encourage diverse perspectives in the workplace, yet we’re still not giving women opportunities to truly lead within the sector.
Speaker: Chester Santos – Author, International Keynote Speaker, Executive Coach, Corporate Trainer, Memory Expert, U.S. Memory Champion
In October, scientists discovered that 75% of patients who experienced brain fog had a lower quality of life at work than those who did not. At best, brain fog makes you slower and less efficient. At worst, your performance and cognitive functions are impaired, resulting in memory, management, and task completion problems. In this entertaining and interactive presentation, Chester Santos, "The International Man of Memory," will assist you in developing life-changing skills that will greatly enha
SME Strategy
FEBRUARY 27, 2023
SME Strategy is a strategy consulting firm that specializes in helping organizations align their teams and operations around a shared vision, mission, values, goals, and action plans. Our strategicplanning services offer guidance on how a strategic planning facilitator can provide support in constructing an effective strategicplan that ensures your strategy is communicated and implemented across your entire organization.
Chief Outsiders
FEBRUARY 28, 2023
By: Carol Eversen and Jeff Loeb Part 4 - Getting Started with ABM In part 3 of our four-part ABM blog series , we explored the technologies available to support ABM and articulated how different tech stack elements can be leveraged to support your ABM program. We also provided thoughts about the essential elements of reporting for an ABM initiative.
Chief Executive
MARCH 3, 2023
Very few enterprising families focus on building an owner’s mindset among their family members. Rather, they put their efforts into working and growing their enterprises. But neglecting to both formally and informally develop rising family members to contribute to the enterprise risks much more than the financial losses that could arise — it risks the devastating loss of the family itself and the relationships within it.
Forbes Leadership
MARCH 2, 2023
In a trend one VC calls “Harvard meets Hollywood,’’ investors and entrepreneurs are embracing the idea that education should be entertaining and delivered in small bites.
Rhythm Systems Growth
FEBRUARY 27, 2023
Business is moving faster than ever before, and these days your business needs to be as nimble possible to respond to the rapidly changing business landscape. In today’s nonstop global economy, there is always somebody, somewhere trying to capture part of your market and your customers. This has only increase with the global coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic, you need to be able to pivot faster than ever with your strategic growth planning.
SHRM Organizational Development
FEBRUARY 28, 2023
14 Ways to Build Authentic Relationships Across Differences in the Workplace Whether working in the office, remotely or on a hybrid schedule, building authentic relationships with employees is key in helping employees develop a sense of belonging in the workplace. As leaders, it can be challenging to establish relationships without seeming like you.
Chief Executive
FEBRUARY 27, 2023
“We’ve all lived in uncertain times,” Ethan Allen CEO Farooq Kathwari told fellow leaders at a roundtable cosponsored by Chief Executive and PURE Insurance. “It’s just relative—some times are more uncertain than others.” Market volatility, high inflation, impending recession, geopolitical uncertainty, labor shortages and climate change are just a few of the challenges facing leaders today.
Forbes Leadership
MARCH 2, 2023
Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey has proposed a new program that would make community college free for Massachusetts residents age 25 and older. Healey’s 2024 fiscal year budget, which she filed on Wednesday, includes $20 million in funding for the program.
Alison Green
FEBRUARY 28, 2023
This post, I resent our new hires for setting better work-life boundaries than our company normally has , was written by Alison Green and published on Ask a Manager. A reader writes: I am part of a team in a high-pressure industry at a company known for demanding a lot but paying very well in exchange for availability, etc. We purport to provide near-constant availability to our clients, but it’s unclear whether this near-constant availability expectation extends to individual employees fo
Thought Leaders LLC
MARCH 2, 2023
Our reader poll today asks: When you have to deliver a tough message, what best describes your approach? I deliver it directly and without apology or cushioning: 32.15% I strike a balance between tough news and positive news: 62.15% I soft-pedal the message and risk it not being received: 4.28% I avoid delivering the message and hope they’ll figure it out on their own: 1.42% Beware the “But” Sandwich.
Expert insights. Personalized for you.
142 
Let's personalize your content