Careers
What’s the surprising secret to retaining great employees?
Retaining great employees requires employers to help them set goals that align with their values. Learn why that's so important.
Management
Leadership
Can we fix what’s wrong with continuous performance management?
The popular objectives and key results framework has merit, but its corresponding idea of continuous performance management has 3 key flaws. Learn what those are.
Leadership
Exploring your team’s intellectual diversity
Dawna Markova's concepts of mind patterns and thinking talents can help leaders unlock the intellectual diversity in their teams.
Leadership
No more onboarding
Onboarding is the wrong term to use for fulling welcoming and integrating employees. Let's think about immersion, instead.
Leadership
Critical steps for decreasing conflict in a hybrid workplace
Conflict in a hybrid workplace will appear in many ways, but leaders can fend off most of these problems with a focused approach. Learn how.
Finance
For CFOs, the time to embrace AI is now
Use of AI and robotics in corporate finance departments has tripled in recent years, but CFOs still have implementation concerns
Leadership
Employees are fed up with lousy cultures and bad bosses
Employees are fed up with not being valued, and they're willing to quit. How should employers and leaders respond?
Leadership
4 commitments leaders can cultivate to compound the impact of their work
Weaving Influence founder and CEO Becky Robinson shares the 4 commitments she's found are essential for leaders.
Leadership
Let’s call it a retention review
What's a retention review? It's a conversation where employees share what actions the leader can take to ensure employees are recognized, appreciated -- and willing to stay.
Leadership
How to add autonomy to your remote team culture
Remote work can lead to overwork. Here are four ways leaders can take pressure off their remote team culture.
Leadership
How to strengthen workplace connections outside your team
Workplace connections have been strengthened within teams, but distant ties around organizations have weakened. Here's how to fix that.
Leadership
Why these questions can help leaders assess context
Leaders need to ask hard questions to assess context in their organizations, and here's where the 5 W's (and 1 H) can help.
Leadership
Why you need to rethink your approach to power in the workplace
Power in the workplace is less about getting people to do your bidding and more about helping them be successful. Here's how to practice "clean power."
Leadership
Best practices for effectively managing global teams
Hybrid workplaces are here to stay, especially in global teams. Learn from Tellius CEO Ajay Khanna how his company's making it work.
Leadership
12 behaviors that leaders should avoid
While advice on behaviors that leaders should avoid can be helpful, it's even better to also suggest what leaders should do instead.
Leadership
What you need to know about leading and mentoring high achievers
Here's what you need to know about leading and mentoring high achievers, starting with understand what motivates and energizes them.
Leadership
Are you leading a team or a group?
Leading a team and leading a group can look similar, but the differences have vast implications for your leadership and organization.
Leadership
What leaders can learn from P&O Ferries and the Great Resignation
The layoffs at P&O Ferries are just the latest example of what happens when leaders fail to prioritize and live respect as a cultural value. You can do better.
Leadership
Attention management is awareness intelligence
Awareness intelligence is a valuable skill for leaders in a VUCA world, and it requires a focus on attention management. Learn more.
Leadership
Be the balm: Creating an anti-burnout culture
Fixing burnout isn't an individual problem. Leaders need to create anti-burnout culture if they want to address this crisis.
Leadership
Try these practices to increase your self-regulation
Emotional integrity and cognitive restructuring are key to learning self-regulation. Here's how to develop these qualities.
Leadership
Are you the manager Gen Z needs? Here are 2 mindset changes to get there
Young employees are upending work, but they aren't the problem. Instead, middle managers need to embrace the challenge and step up their leadership.
Leadership
Restructuring the puzzle of work
Leaders need to reframe work for the post-pandemic era. Here are seven areas to keep in mind.
Leadership
Connection: Today’s most essential leadership skill
A leader’s new power lies in his or her ability to connect with others, and that work begins by connection with yourself.
Leadership
Leaders: Are employees creating or in coping mode? How to tell
How leaders behave will generate team creativity or send people into coping mode. Learn what behaviors matter and how to get the feedback you really need.
Leadership
Why tokens are the wrong incentive for workplace problems
Motivating people isn't as simple as giving tokens and other rewards. In fact, you might be incentivizing the wrong things.
Leadership
Leaders who don’t treat others with respect should lovingly be set free
Leaders must set the tone for values and behaviors they expect, including treating others with respect. Leaders who can't do that need to go.
Leadership
How do you handle team members who have little aspiration for advancing their careers?
The latest SmartBrief on Leadership poll question: How do you handle team members who have little aspiration for advancing their careers?
Leadership
Are you proficient at each step in the leadership process?
How do you practice leadership? Do you have a leadership process? Learn this four-step approach.
Leadership
Making distinctions reduces conflict
Managing conflict requires leaders to gather information, question their assumptions and make distinctions. Learn more about effective conflict management.
Leadership
Lower resistance to change by following these 2 simple truths
Ken Blanchard and Randy Conley offer leaders a blueprint for leading change without provoking change resistance.
Leadership
Leadership lessons from getting stuck on a mountain
Tactical readiness and cognitive readiness can help you deal with bad or even dangerous situations in life and at work.
Leadership
Attention, leaders: Wake up and listen to your employees
Culture is the most important tool leaders have in retaining employees right now, but leaders and executives aren't listening.
Leadership
Are you a low-effort thinker?
Learn the signs of low-effort thinking and why you aren't immune to it.
Leadership
Create an uncompromising work culture (before it’s too late)
Don't compromise on respect unless you want to see people quit in droves. Learn more about those compromises and what a better workplace culture looks like.
Leadership
4 choices smart leaders make
Why do leaders struggle, and how can they recover? Here are four straightforward tips for getting started from Chick-fil-A executive Mark Miller.
Leadership
How you can become more resilient this year
Resilience isn't a quick fix like "bouncing back," as you might have heard. But the right practices can make you resilient in the long run. Learn more.
Leadership
3 competencies you need to lead this year
Learn why today's leaders need emotional intelligence, people development and integrative thinking to build great organizations.
Leadership
Hubert Joly: Put your heart into your business
Former Best Buy CEO Hubert Joly shares lessons learned from reviving the retailer and why the workplace needs to evolve to be more employee-focused.
Management
The secret of great companies is chemistry, not alchemy
Leaders can't dictate corporate culture, but employee chemistry isn't alchemy! Learn why corporate chemistry is within your control, unlike Rumpelstiltskin's alchemy.
Management
Difference-makers for setting and achieving your goals
There are many ways to set personal and professinoal goals for the year, but it's all about how you execute them. Here are 6 tips for being a better leader and achieving your goals.
Management
Think deeply about the leader you aspire to be
How can you be a better leader? Explore, reflect, document, aspire. Learn more about becoming a better leader.