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LEADERSHIP INSIGHTS
Engaged employees are more likely to be high performers, drive action, and participate in achieving the organizational goals. Find out what your workers are thinking and how to motivate them, in addition to avoiding costly turnover in the year ahead. Consider this: 34% of employees say they plan to leave their current role in the next 12 months (Mercer) 51% of the U.S. workforce is not engaged, costing organizations between $450 and $550 billion annually (Gallup) 68% of the human […]
Written by: The Challenge In the past, as employers we could look for employees that had certain types of training. When they came aboard, they could move quickly. Today, most employees we hire do not have the training or experience. If they have the experience, we have to unwind some of it since we may do it differently. Some organizations get so desperate that they simply need bodies and hands to be able to even be able to handle work […]
Succession planning can be an intimidating subject for most everyone, but the fact is that it shouldn’t be. It’s not something that has to be overly complicated nor should it be viewed in a negative light. If handled properly it can be an amazing experience with new opportunities and optimism in its wake. As a follow-up to the previous article, “Changing of the Guard”, we would like to leave you with a letter passed on by one of our clients. […]
Written by: Don Hadley One of the biggest challenges organizations face today is “the changing of the guard”. The examples below briefly demonstrate how succession (or lack of it) can dramatically hurt or transform an organization: One disaster: The head of the company was almost 80 years old. He was having troubling recruiting and retaining leaders that wanted to run the organization. None of the existing employees, to his knowledge, had the desire, attitude, skills and habit to be able […]
Executive coaching isn’t just for executives anymore. Every day, we all engage with other people to accomplish things, whether at work or at home. The principles that apply to business world coaching easily translate to other types of relationships. All relationships come down to a few basic factors, the biggest of which are trust, honesty and dependability. In other words, each of the parties clearly states their needs and wants, knows the other person will work hard to help them […]
This is a tale of two managers. One committed suicide; the other young up and coming leader is helping a 79 year old business man learn to use Facebook. Millennials are 41% of the current workforce. By 2030, they will be 75% of the workforce. If you look at yourself and those of other generations, we may point our fingers at millennials for being different, yet we have taken on many of their characteristics. Most of this has been good, […]
When most people think of communication, they think about talking and passing along information, advice or opinions. Effective communication also involves actively listening, knowing when to speak and when to stay silent. Keep in mind that 85% of what we communicate is nonverbal so in addition to being patient, your face and actions must also be considered. All organizations maintain that they value open communication, but few listen to their staff, customers and suppliers effectively. Listening, like any other skill, […]
A clear, effective communication skill is one of the best attributes a person can develop. It equips you to be successful professionally and personally. By communication, we mean stating your needs clearly and listening to others with the intention of fully understanding what they are trying to say. It is a “two-way” street. Can you identify with this example? It is the job of leaders to go to the unknown and find out what’s there. Asking employees for honest […]
Company culture seems to be a widely circulated term, but one that few people clearly understand. Culture is the ‘good stuff” in an organization that makes individuals work harder, more enthusiastically, with honest direct communication, which translates into peak performance. It may be defined as: a company’s values, practices, beliefs, language or simply the way of thinking that exists in an organization. If you want to be a truly successful and innovative company, culture must be a daily focus in […]