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Leader development: what’s the return on your investment?
Here's the scene: a group of executives is in a conference room debating how to best develop their multi-generational workforce. Over the past two years, this mid-level market company has struggled to train and retain its top talent because its programs continue to...
Grow your own: the benefits of promoting from within
Today, more than ever, companies are working feverishly to hire and retain talented employees. There is not an industry immune to this challenge. Ultimately, retaining your top employees and growing your business can benefit significantly from focusing your efforts...
The new rules of attracting top talent
It is no surprise that attracting top talent has become more of a strategic chess game than anything at all. With limitless recruitment tools available, organizations are often forced to turn up the heat and sometimes become radical, offering much more than they have...
Remote Leadership: Connect, Communicate, and Cultivate
In my former leadership roles, I had the great opportunity to lead culturally diverse teams worldwide. Some of those teams were remote as each entity existed separately from our parent headquarters. Each was remote and self-sustaining, but remote by location -- not...
Presence and the importance of engaged leadership
Several years ago, I worked in an organization where the hashtag #LeadershipMatters was a top-down message communicated in everything we did. I certainly agreed and echoed the "Leadership Matters" message, but I added a dimension to the Leadership Matters hashtag:...
Leading through change, disruption, and uncertainty
A few years ago, I was part of an organization that was successfully striding toward accomplishing our strategic goals when unexpected external forces imposed a drastic direction change. Our strategic goals, operational efforts, and daily routines devolved into...
The Performance Improvement Plan (PIP) – rest in peace!
Call it a personal peeve of mine, or maybe just me getting old, but when someone says the phrase, “They are on a Performance Improvement Plan (PIP),” it is like nails on a chalkboard for me! Fortunately, I have never been on a PIP, but I have worked with many who have...
Platinum adaptation: how the most successful leaders adapt to their followers
In a recent workshop I attended, a discussion arose around the concept of adapting to others as a leader versus expecting followers to adapt to the leader. We explored adaptation as the “Platinum Rule,” where you treat others as they need to be treated (versus the...
To improve employee retention, start training your leaders sooner
Many organizations don’t really have serious retention strategies. If I had $1,000 for every business leader who used “my kids” as a significant data point, I would have retired long ago. If I had an additional $1,000 for every time someone said something like, “We...
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