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12 questions to help you conduct effective stay interviews
Stay interviews help you engage employees before it's too late. Here are some tips for doing stay interviews well.
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Managers: Is it possible to automate employee engagement?
There’s no shortage of research, articles, and infographics that express the importance of employee engagement and its direct impact on employee satisfaction, retention, performance,...
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How to nurture accountability with employees
Organizations are made up of teams and individuals who execute specific tasks to drive a greater, overarching business goal. However, the link between individual...
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How do you efficiently onboard new employees?
The Young Entrepreneur Council is an invite-only organization comprised of the world’s most promising young entrepreneurs. YEC recently launched StartupCollective, a free virtual mentorship program that...
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4 leadership lessons we can learn from sports
I recently watched a high school state track and field championship. At the beginning of the evening, the excitement among the athletes was palpable....
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Innovative service takes responsible freedom
Lisa was super-friendly and always eager to serve me. She was one of the main reasons I parked my car every week at the...
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There’s no reason employees can’t be both engaged and happy
Engagement. Commitment. Morale. Satisfaction. Meaning. Happiness. A lot of terms get kicked around in the human resources field and the so-called “employee engagement” industry...
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When do you let an underperforming employee go?
The Young Entrepreneur Council is an invite-only organization comprised of the world’s most promising young entrepreneurs. YEC recently launched StartupCollective, a free virtual mentorship program that...
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How Team of Leaders helps deal with difficult people
Difficult people are everywhere. They’re in line in front of you at the bank, shopping with you in the supermarket, and next to you...
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What resources can help entrepreneurs be better managers?
The Young Entrepreneur Council is an invite-only organization comprised of the world’s most promising young entrepreneurs. YEC recently launched StartupCollective, a free virtual mentorship program that...
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What employee engagement data can tell you about change management
We were working with a large financial services company on implementing a new external brand strategy that had implications for internal operations, as well....
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Lead better meetings with these 2 conversational paths
Meetings at your company aren’t going away. If anything, that much-maligned beast is growing in prominence, thanks to the ease of gathering people via...
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7 essential talents of effective managers
Forget state-of-the-art IT systems and over-the-top marketing campaigns. Often, the secret to improving a company’s productivity and skyrocketing its growth lies in its people...
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Getting employees to take accountability
Accountability became a management fad in the early 2000s. Unfortunately, in most organizations, accountability has become a hollow and empty slogan that evokes cynicism...
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Beware of your leadership strengths
When it comes to leadership, is there such thing as too much of a good thing? There sure can be. In fact, just about...
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How to employ data to empower, not replace, your managers
People love to joke that robots are going to someday steal our jobs. Don’t panic — nobody is being replaced just yet. You can...
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Want front-line leaders and players to make great decisions? Clear the fog
It was another late night returning home from a business trip this week. Spring weather in Denver has been rainy for a week straight....
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Harnessing the power of your hidden leaders
In my latest book. I describe Hidden Leaders as the people in companies that provide a powerful leadership presence despite the fact that their...
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Celebrate mistakes: Creating a culture of forgiveness
Your team is made up of some of the best — you have seen them in action and you know they’re great players. Every...
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If not the annual performance appraisal, then what?
The annual performance appraisal might be among the most reviled of time-honored workplace traditions. And it makes sense. Managers must invest countless hours in...
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Common mistakes leaders make during periods of fast growth
The Young Entrepreneur Council is an invite-only organization comprised of the world’s most promising young entrepreneurs. YEC recently launched StartupCollective, a free virtual mentorship program that...
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Are you the wrong type of “engaged” leader?
Much of what’s written about “employee engagement” focuses on how to get your employees more involved at work. As a leader at your company,...
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Why opposing viewpoints should be more important than cultural diversity
Diversity in company culture makes organizations better, period. Studies and feedback on some of the top work environments support this, and companies with any...
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What’s a connection culture, and how do we get there?
A new book comes up with a better definition of what a winning culture needs.
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“Leading Up”: Being a values-based leader at any level
Without question, what happens at the top — priorities established, strategies set or changed — cascades throughout the entire organization. How can it be...
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The secret of U2’s success
This post is an excerpt from “Connection Culture” (April 2015, Association for Talent Development) by Michael Lee Stallard Jason Pankau and Katharine P. Stallard,...
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12 ways to develop leadership confidence
I was in a talent review meeting recently, and we were discussing the strengths and development needs of a promising young leader. When I...
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15 tips for managing remote workers
The Young Entrepreneur Council is an invite-only organization comprised of the world’s most promising young entrepreneurs. YEC recently launched StartupCollective, a free virtual mentorship program that...
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The 3 levels of organizational alignment (and how to build them in your company)
Over 75 years ago, Chester Barnard published a landmark book called “The Functions of the Executive.” In it, he makes a key observation: “Successful...
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The leadership lessons from the Secret Service’s struggles — an interview with author and journalist Ronald Kessler
The continued struggles of the Secret Service are a series of failures and performance lapses that have gone on for several years. One person,...
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The risky business of leadership development
Business success today demands careful attention to risk management. Contingency plans, redundant systems, business continuity insurance, and countless other vehicles protect organizations from the...
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The best part of leading
Leadership is hard work. It takes making accurate decisions based often on inaccurate or incomplete data. It requires bringing about change and contending with...
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13 time-saving tips for continuous self-education
The Young Entrepreneur Council is an invite-only organization comprised of the world’s most promising young entrepreneurs. YEC recently launched StartupCollective, a free virtual mentorship program that...
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8 meeting commandants that we all need to follow
Designed by Freepik We all like to complain about meetings. Meetings are a waste of time, boring, inefficient, run too long, nothing gets accomplished,...
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14 things every employee manual should include
The Young Entrepreneur Council is an invite-only organization comprised of the world’s most promising young entrepreneurs. YEC recently launched StartupCollective, a free virtual mentorship program that...
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Lessons from 3 role models
I walked into our family room and caught my daughter and husband mid-conversation. The topics: discipline and responsibility, areas my daughter, like any 13-year-old,...
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4 reasons leaders need to share their knowledge
Tony Hsieh knows the value of knowledge sharing. The Zappos CEO could have kept his industry-changing standards for customer service, employee engagement, and corporate...
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To succeed today, you need wisdom
Leaders place great emphasis on productivity, teamwork, focus and other catch-words to improve company efforts. In our race to get ahead, we may be...
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How to work for a macromanager
No one wants to work for a micromanager. Micromanagers are control freaks, always breathing down their employee’s, telling them how to do everything and...
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Meetings: Decide what matters and who cares
This post is an excerpt from “MEETINGS MATTER: 8 Powerful Strategies for Remarkable Conversations,” (Jackson Creek Press, January 2015) by Paul Axtell. There is...
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The future of business is fast
This post is an edited excerpt from “When Millennials Take Over: Preparing for the Ridiculously Optimistic Future of Business,” (Ideapress Publishing, March 2015) by...
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How to give a promotion you won’t regret
Meet Will. Will was recently promoted to a management position after working with his company for nearly five years. Although he initially seemed right...