Employee Engagement, Leadership
What is your Leadership Role in Employee Engagement?
If you google employee engagement, you’re going to be inundated with thousands of results trying to define and tackle the topic of employee engagement. If you click on just about anyone of these results, you’ll…
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Leadership
Millennials Are Raising the Bar for Leaders
We’ve heard plenty of managers gripe about the entitled Millennials and the impact they’re having on the workforce. But before I get to that, let’s start with some statistics. Millennials (18-34 years old) currently make…
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Leadership
Why Good Leaders Make Bad Decisions
All great leaders make regrettable decisions and mistakes. In fact, if you’re not making mistakes or bad decisions, then you’re not taking enough risks or learning enough to continue growing as a leader. When Sam Walton,…
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Leadership
The Arrogant Leadership Test
Arrogant leaders operate under the belief that they are simply confident go-getters. Actually, arrogant leaders believe a lot of things about themselves that are; A) false, and B) severely detrimental to their success as a…
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Employee Engagement, Leadership
The 5 Signs of a Thriving Workplace Culture
Most people would agree that the culture of your organization is critically important to its success. As Peter Drucker said, “Culture eats strategy for breakfast.” Consider these examples for a minute. Zappos has a culture…
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Leadership
Top 10 Traits of a Confident & Competent Leader
If you were to write down all of the traits a strong leader should have, you could create quite an impressive list. No matter what traits you write on that list, though, confidence needs to…
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Leadership
Making Your 360 Leadership Development Assessment Work for You
You asked for feedback on what you could do to be a stronger leader. The most important thing you can do now is take action. Leaders who diligently act on their 360 survey results make…
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Communication
The New Definition of Professionalism
If you’re looking to ruffle some feathers, try telling someone their conduct at work is unprofessional. The indignant reply will most likely be something along the lines of, “what do you mean I’m not professional?…
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Friendship
Is Your Employee Engagement Strategy Falling Short?
Employee engagement is a top concern for today’s organizations, and for good reason. With only 30% of the workforce engaged, disengaged employees are costing the U.S. an astounding $450-550 billion annually. Despite the vast resources poured…
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Employee Engagement, Leadership
7 Undeniable Signs it’s Time to Fire an Employee
We’ve all dealt with challenging employees at some point in our careers. As a leader, it can be extremely difficult to know when you’ve gone from dealing with a challenging employee, to dealing with a…
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