The missing link in your leadership: Build meaningful feedback loops
Feedback loops can be a powerful tool for leaders, provided they are adapted to the organization’s and leader’s specific needs.
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Feedback loops can be a powerful tool for leaders, provided they are adapted to the organization’s and leader’s specific needs.
Leading a team and leading a group can look similar, but the differences have vast implications for your leadership and organization.
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.
You can't control the personality types of executives you'll encounter, but you can control how you influence them and show your competence.
Advisory boards only succeed when they have a clear role, commitment and relevance. Learn more about starting and sustaining advisory boards.
Awareness intelligence is a valuable skill for leaders in a VUCA world, and it requires a focus on attention management. Learn more.
Happiness is good but impermanent. Learn why a good life is about how well we spend our limited time on earth.
Sustaining relevance is a perpetual task for brands, and it's never guaranteed. Here's what you can learn from Plymouth's rise and fall.
Hybrid meetings are the new normal, and employers, managers and employees each have a role to play. Learn how to maximize hybrid meetings.
Sharpen your saw in the mold of Stephen R. Covey through hydration, exercise, sleep and reflection, and you'll see productivity gains.
Fixing burnout isn't an individual problem. Leaders need to create anti-burnout culture if they want to address this crisis.
Emotional integrity and cognitive restructuring are key to learning self-regulation. Here's how to develop these qualities.
Learn what the work of Homeboy Industries and the Rev. Greg Boyle can teach us about community and teamwork.
Young employees are upending work, but they aren't the problem. Instead, middle managers need to embrace the challenge and step up their leadership.
Leaders need to reframe work for the post-pandemic era. Here are seven areas to keep in mind.
What's your singular strategic objective? Aim for that instead of getting lost in a pile of strategics, tactics and objectives.
Looking to reclaim your authentic self? Learn about this 4-step framework from an executive adviser and mental health professional.
A leader’s new power lies in his or her ability to connect with others, and that work begins by connection with yourself.
Employees feel loneliness and lack connection when they don't sense that leaders care about them. Here's how to fix that in your culture.
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.
Motivating people isn't as simple as giving tokens and other rewards. In fact, you might be incentivizing the wrong things.
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.
Learning to craft success statements and communicate them to executives will be key to your next project or promotion. Learn more.
We need to cultivate hope, and to do that, we need to think of hope as a practice.
From humble beginnings and through adversity, you can still find success. Learn more about what's in your control.
The latest SmartBrief on Leadership poll question: How do you handle team members who have little aspiration for advancing their careers?
What is the enduring allure of the best-selling book What Color is Your Parachute?
How do you practice leadership? Do you have a leadership process? Learn this four-step approach.
Arguing over problems doesn't mean you're solving them. Here are three pivots to help move a business from defining problems to strategic management.
Research shows that managing employee productivity requires measurement and technology, but it's more than that -- you need a combination of objective measures and subjective observation.
COVID-19 has changed how people think about work and their careers. How can leaders respond to this new normal?
Taking breaks is good for your body, mind and work. Explore proven methods for effective breaks and suggestions for what to do with your breaks.
Too many businesses miss out on an easy way to engage with customers, gain valuable intelligence and build business. It's called getting out into the field with customers.
Managing conflict requires leaders to gather information, question their assumptions and make distinctions. Learn more about effective conflict management.
Ken Blanchard and Randy Conley offer leaders a blueprint for leading change without provoking change resistance.
Here’s why businesses with TV screens should switch to a streaming TV platform designed for public viewing.
Popular professor and author Zoe Chance shares her tips for using your authentic influence in business, and in life.
Planned obsolescence has a deserved bad reputation, but it's also a strategic mindset every company needs if it's to stand the test of time.
The latest poll question from SmartBrief on Leadership: How comfortable is your organization with making decisions in the face of uncertainty?
Real gains in diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging require the C-suite's empowerment of HR, not removing HR from DEIB, argues this Robinhood executive.
Tactical readiness and cognitive readiness can help you deal with bad or even dangerous situations in life and at work.
Culture is the most important tool leaders have in retaining employees right now, but leaders and executives aren't listening.