Nanci was asked by Findcourses.com "How do you lead a remote team?" Her answer was insightful and connected: Everywhere you turn people are talking about ‘social distancing’ when it really needs to be labeled as ‘physical distancing.’ Now more than…
https://vimeo.com/showcase/6709624/video/384741203 Feedback…what is the first thing that comes to your mind? Ugh? If you are like most people, it’s not a positive response. Now imagine if you could change your perception around feedback. As a recipient of feedback, we feel…
https://vimeo.com/showcase/6709624/video/384189142 Nanci Appleman-Vassil It is in the New Year that we often think about resolutions, but how often do we reflect on our intentions behind those resolutions? By setting our intentions and not just goals, we begin to change our…
Identifying, hiring, training and retaining great talent is quite the investment in time and can be costly to the bottom line. Retaining great people once you have hired them is key to any organization’s success. Ability to Articulate Past Accomplishments…
You’ve probably heard of the many benefits of gratitude in your personal life -- increased feelings of happiness, improved relationships, better mental health, better immune function and sleep, even improved cardiovascular health -- but you may not have realized how…
The people in your organization deserve competent leadership, but it’s not always obvious how to cultivate leadership potential. Fortunately, there is clear framework than can help employees develop their effectiveness as leaders: situational leadership. Developed by Paul Hersey and Ken Blanchard,…
It’s not just skills and knowledge that determine the success of an employee or team -- the personalities of employees play a crucial role as well. Risk-taking or stability-seeking, direct or diplomatic, people bring very different ways of relating to…
It’s inevitable, and often positive, that we fall into habits at work. We learn ways to do our jobs that work well, or at least well enough, and these habitual ways of thinking and behaving enable us to get things…