Communication, Leadership
7 Ways to Act Effectively on Negative Feedback
No one enjoys receiving criticism or negative feedback. It especially tends to sting when it highlights something you need to change. Unfortunately, leadership requires us to be able to accept feedback effectively and respond appropriately…
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8 Reasons Your Top Talent is Leaving
Today’s competitive labor market means employers need talented employees a lot more than talented employees need employers. And while pay and benefits are important, they don’t even make the list of most common reasons why…
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Are You a Leader?
When you think of your title, how do you see yourself? Are you a leader, or are you the boss, supervisor, manager, director, general manager, vice president or president of a group of people? …
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9 Ways to Enhance Top-Down Communication
Ensuring effective top-down communication is a key responsibility of senior management. However, many organizations still struggle with ineffective communication. According to our benchmarks for Employee Opinion and Engagement Surveys, only 54.3% of employees feel…
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The Right Kind of Diversity Builds Team Success
Diversity has long been linked to a team’s success. Most of us think about diversity in terms of race, age, gender, sexual orientation, socio-economic status or religion. But, there are many more types of diversity…
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Increasing Workplace Culture and Morale Isn’t HR’s Job
After companies conduct an Employee opinion survey, they are faced with the challenge of taking action to create real change. Where some organizations go wrong is holding HR accountable for changing culture and morale within…
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The 50/50 Odds of Executive Coaching
We often receive calls from our clients that go something like this, “Peter, I have an executive/manager on my team who is technically sound and highly competent at doing his job. However, when it comes…
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7 Ways to Fail Your Way to Success
When we think about success, failure isn’t the word that usually comes to mind. And yet, success rarely happens without multiple failures along the way. Most people we would consider to be highly successful…
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Great Leaders Keep Employees Uncomfortable
Ensuring a positive and engaging work environment is a key leadership responsibility. But, when people confuse this responsibility with keeping everyone happy and base their decisions solely on this goal, problems arise. A manager…
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Empowering Great Employees to Make Great Decisions
Great decision-making skills are critical to a leader’s success. What people tend to forget, however, is that trusting employees to make great decisions is equally critical to a leader’s success. We’ve worked with many…
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