Authenticity in leadership communication is pure gold. When people can tell who a leader is by what they say, and how they say it, it builds trust, motivates, and makes others want to follow them. But being a leader sometimes means sharing messages you don’t believe in or communicating decisions you’re not on board with. …
It’s no secret that employee burnout and fatigue are plaguing employees. There is understandable concern about high turnover, quiet quitting, and employee engagement. But what about the enormous pressure on people leaders – specifically frontline leaders and leaders of teams – who are dealing with the fallout from several converging issues? While being a people…
Opportunities to grow and develop are the number one reason employees gave for choosing to leave their jobs. In fact, 37% of employees who left their jobs were motivated by a desire to learn and grow*. From individual contributors to leaders, development has been top-of-mind for so many. If development, including leadership development, is such…
In a post pandemic world what it means to work, to be a part of a team, and to lead continues to be reshaped and redefined. 2023 promises to be a year that takes recent trends and reaffirms them as more permanent shifts. Workplaces in 2023 will, in fact, be less about “places” and more…
While the expression “Time flies when you’re having fun” is true, there is nothing that brings time to a grinding halt faster than a monotonous virtual training experience. Anyone who has watched the minutes tick by during a three-hour workshop would likely agree, in those situations, time rarely flies. Could the reason be an absence…
A few years back I had the worst coaching-not-coaching conversation of my life. A friend and colleague of mine had gotten into a heated discussion on a team project call. Our issues simmered-under-the-surface, but never boiled over. Leaving the call, we were in an unstated disagreement. I was silently fuming. She was aware something was…
Very few leaders you meet are going to tell you they are bored. More often than not, one of the biggest tactical challenge leaders face is time – time management, scarcity of time, time to get things done. Leaders feel overwhelmed, overworked, and often complain they have too much on their to do list. Time…
How many times have you heard the expression, “It’s not what you said, it’s how you say it.”? The truth is, it’s both. Asking good questions, listening, and giving feedback are the basic ingredients of leader communication – but those steps are only part of good communication. Research done by UCLA found that gestures count…
The benefit of a growth mindset has long been identified as the key to organizations that seek continuous improvement. Growth mindset, defined by Carol Dweck, is the belief that our most basic abilities can be developed through dedication and hard work. Dweck’s practice of growth mindset, though, goes further than skill development. Individuals with a…
Each new generation of employees tends to rewrite the rules-of-engagement with their employer. But against the backdrop of a global pandemic, cries for racial justice, and unprecedented political divisiveness, is it any wonder this generation might be completely ripping up the rules and tik toking their way to a new approach? One of those ways,…