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Do You Have a High-Performance Culture and Why Does it Matter?

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CEOs and C-level team members are generally focused on building the right company culture, and the “right culture” for many is a high-performance culture.  The term has become a buzz word for company growth, and many executives believe that they have already mastered this culture. But does your company actually have a high-performance culture, and why does it matter if you … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Management Tagged With: featured blogger, leadership, leadership mindset, new leaders

Find Balance When Work and Home Are in the Same Place

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When you work from home, the “workday” becomes a slippery slope—especially when you’re constantly interrupted by your kids, pets, neighbors or spouses. If you’re not careful, meeting your work demands in this chaotic environment can crowd out your other priorities. Below are some healthy habits to help you take back control and protect your work/life balance in these unusual … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Personal & Professional Development Tagged With: difficult situations, featured blogger, motivation

6 Ways to Stay Calm and Keep Stress Under Control

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No leadership job is without stress, and when it hits, you can either spiral or figure out a way to stay calm under pressure. Diana Hendel, PharmD and Mark Goulston, MD, authors of Why Cope When You Can Heal?: How Healthcare Heroes of COVID-19 Can Recover from PTSD  offers this advice to better manage your stress: Do frequent self “check-ins” When you’re busy and under … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Personal & Professional Development Tagged With: difficult situations, featured blogger

Avoid These Four Online Meeting Mistakes

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Most of us are holding more remote meetings now, and if you haven't noticed, they are inherently different from in-person meetings," says Howard Tiersky, coauthor along with Heidi Wisbach of Impactful Online Meetings: How to Run Polished Virtual Working Sessions That Are Engaging and Effective. "If you're not used to running them, you're going to make tons of mistakes. And … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Communication Tagged With: communicating with employees, featured blogger, meetings

Inner Peace Is the Workplace Skill Everyone Needs Right Now

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No doubt about it: The world is loud, chaotic, and outright scary. And with a pandemic piled on top of political/social/economic upheaval piled on top of “normal” disruptors like AI advancements that change everything about the way we work, it’s only going to get more so. Here’s the question: How do you get heard above the chaos? Do you shout louder? Work harder? Bulldoze over … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Personal & Professional Development Tagged With: featured blogger, leadership mindset, morale

7 Old School Workplace Strengths that Are Now Weaknesses

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Ed Hess, author of Hyper-Learning: How to Adapt to the Speed of Change, says that many of the skills and mindsets that were once prized and sought after have actually become liabilities. Here he identifies seven skills and attitudes that not long ago might have gotten you a corner office—but may now get you fired: Command-and-control leadership style Expecting people to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Personal & Professional Development Tagged With: featured blogger, leadership mindset, leadership problems, new leaders

140 Top CEOs Identify Nine Crucial Skills and Mindsets for Future Leaders

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This is a guest post by Jacob Morgan, author of The Future Leader. When I would speak at conferences and events around the word, I would frequently get asked, "What should we be teaching leaders now to prepare for the future?" Unfortunately, there is not much research that explores this, especially including the perspectives of top CEOs, so I decided to tackle this with my … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Management Tagged With: featured blogger, leadership mindset, new leaders

How to Build Your Brand as a Go-To Person

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This is a guest post by Bruce Tulgan author of The Art of Being Indispensable at Work.  You need to grow to make yourself even more indispensable, by steadily increasing, expanding and professionalizing your repertoire of specialties into areas beyond your job. The more specialties you have, the more of your time you’ll be able to devote to high-impact value adding — working … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Personal & Professional Development Tagged With: career advancement, featured blogger, new leaders

How to Step Up and Lead Strong in Uncertain Times

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This is a guest post by Tamara Ghandour, keynote speaker and adviser.  Recent events around COVID-19 have turned most of our worlds upside down. The situation is rapidly evolving, leaving most people with a sense of uncertainty around how everything will play out, in the short and long-term. That uncertainty leads to stress, decreasing productivity, and quality of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Management Tagged With: communicating with employees, featured blogger, leadership, new leaders

Manage Your COVID-19 Fears to Lead More Effectively

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Most of us are feeling scared and uneasy right now. Uncertainty, worries about our health, our loved ones, our jobs and more are causing many of us to lose sleep at night. However, Karen McGregor, author of The Tao of Influence: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Leaders and Entrepreneurs, believes some good can come out of this ordeal. "Now is the perfect time to dissolve fear-based … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Personal & Professional Development Tagged With: difficult situations, featured blogger, leadership mindset

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