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…
Don’t Be Afraid of Feedback What comes to mind when you hear the word feedback? Does the mention of the word make the hairs on the back of your neck stand on end? Do you think of feedback as business…