For Leadership
4 Strategies to Help Your Business Recover From Coronavirus
The coronavirus pandemic is wreaking havoc on the global economy. Air travel is being hit hard, sports leagues and big events are being canceled, countries are putting up travel restrictions to try to keep the virus outside their borders, and public health officials and hospitals are bracing for the worst. In times of crisis, it can be hard to stay calm and be optimistic. Fortunately, for entrepreneurs and business leaders, staying calm under pressure is part of the job description.
4 Truths For Leading In Uncertain Times
How do you handle uncertainty and ambiguity? Maybe you have never given it any thought. However, the global spread of a virus and an economic meltdown will test the grit of everyone.
5 Ways to Turn Employee Turnover Into Opportunity
In business, there’s nothing worse than hiring a stellar employee, taking the time to mentor them and foster their growth, and then watching them leave after a short time. There’s a word for this: churn.
10 Questions to Ask Yourself Before Letting an Employee Go
About to fire an employee? Hold on just a second.
The fact that an employee isn't performing according to your expectations may not be his problem, but yours. Every time you are tempted to let someone go, use it as an opportunity to look in the mirror and learn. Somehow you either hired or promoted someone who failed to perform up to expectations. You should ask yourself: how did this happen and how can I keep it from happening again?
Increase Employee Retention by Upping Your Leadership EQ
In recent years, emotional intelligence, or EQ, has become a common and popular topic among managers and leaders. As a consultant who trains companies of all sizes on leadership and soft skills, I can tell you that it is by far one of the most needed areas of development in today’s workplace, and especially among leadership. But what is EQ really, and why is it so important?
Why We Need HR To Take Risks In Building Next Generation Of Leaders
Leadership has become one of those buzzwords everyone uses all the time and a cliché that doesn’t always spark curiosity or interest.
6 Signs Your Company Has Damaged Culture
Every company strives for great, positive and nurturing culture–but few organizations actually achieve it. It’s not possible to have a company without culture but if you don’t design it, it will haphazardly appear based on the people working for you and how they choose to get things done—creating a culture by happenstance, not design.
10 Interview Questions to Answer If You Want to Be an HR Manager
So you’ve been in HR for a few years now, and you’re eager to move to the next level. It’s no wonder — with 25,000+ jobs available and a median salary of over $78,000 — HR Manager is a highly desirable position (enough to have become one of the Best Jobs in America).
7 Excellent Reasons to Focus on Employee Engagement
How many companies, or CEO, do you know that talk about how their employees are their most important or valuable resource? I hear this almost every single day when I consult with businesses. In fact, if I had a dollar for every CEO I've heard say this over the years, I could probably afford to retire.
12 Questions Every Manager Should Ask to Build an Inclusive Hiring Process
If you manage a team of people, I’d like you to answer two questions:
Q1: Who owns the hiring effort for your team?
Q2: And, who owns the diversity of your team?
If the answer to both of these is not the person you see in the mirror every morning, you’re doing it wrong.