Training Day Blog

A compulsively collaborative culture can make leaders neurotic about pursuing ideas they come up with on their own. It makes it hard to be a visionary. Without visionaries, we’ll have far fewer bold, next-big-thing ideas.

How does your company show older employees that they are valued? What kinds of programs, or accommodations, do you offer your most seasoned workers?

The idea of a frictionless office is to create an employee experience that is seamless, without unnecessary waiting or superfluous tasks.

Savvy employers are starting to recognize the benefits to innovation of getting input from people whose brains work differently from most others’.

The security to make mistakes and be different and creative in the workplace is essential to innovation and invention.

Asking employees for long-winded, in-depth feedback about their bosses as part of a 360-degree performance review can be daunting, but requesting them to submit a list of the top few things they would like to change about their bosses quickly gets to the point of how each manager most needs to improve.

In leadership development programs, should there be a segment on how to gain the attention of people in the organization who can support and bolster an employee’s career? If so, what can you teach people about how to do that?

With open-plan office layouts taking away the joy of a personalized workspace, clothing remains a bastion of self-expression.

The first step to making salaries public is to set up a salary formula that would be used for all employees.

87 percent of business leaders Mars Petcare surveyed across the country cited welcoming pets in the workplace as a great tool to attract and retain talent.