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.
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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.
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Why these questions can help leaders assess contextÂ
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Restructuring the puzzle of work
Leaders need to reframe work for the post-pandemic era. Here are seven areas to keep in mind.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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Making distinctions reduces conflict
Managing conflict requires leaders to gather information, question their assumptions and make distinctions. Learn more about effective conflict management.
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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.
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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.
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Are you a low-effort thinker?
Learn the signs of low-effort thinking and why you aren't immune to it.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Start small: Simple steps for growing as a leader
Becoming a good leader isn't an instant process. One of the best ways to grow as a leader is to learn by doing each and every day.
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Reflecting now to create a successful year ahead
A formal exercise of reflection can help you sum up the year that's ending and refocus yourself to a better year ahead. Learn how.
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4 ways to kick off the Great Retention
Instead of worrying about everyone's who quitting in the Great Resignation, get started with retaining who you have. Here are some tips from a chief people officer on better retention.
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Redefining purpose to meet your mission
Purpose isn't a one-time commitment, as military veterans are familiar with. Our purpose must be reexamined and should evolve as we evolve.
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Say “no” to unimportant meetings
If you can protect your time, keep yourself from being dragged into unimportant meetings that keep you from maximal productivity.
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What can one manager do about the Great Resignation?
The Great Resignation isn't about lazy people avoiding work, which offers hope to leaders looking to keep their people and survive this difficult era of work.
Management
Creating stability in a hybrid work environment
Workplaces succeed or fail based on how good the management is, not whether work is in person, remote or hybrid. But hybrid work does presen different challenges for communicating clearly and resolving conflict.
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How this leader learned inclusion up close
A CEO describes her journey toward inclusion and offers advice for how other leaders can learn and model inclusion in their workplaces.
Management
Combating the Great Resignation with an invitation conversation
An invitation conversation is one way to increase retention by reimagining the optimism and hope of the recruitment progress, but with your existing talent.