How Does Political Correctness Affect Your Team?
Has the notion of political correctness done anything to reduce discrimination, or has it simply acted to drive wedges of anxiety and discomfort between groups of people?
The Greatest Obstacle to Innovation Training
How companies prevent the most receptive employees from implementing great ideas.
Becoming a Person of Value
The “Me” habits improve the quality of our thinking and mental illumination. The “We” habits build our relationships. The “Do” habits elevate our health, finances, and living space. The “Be” habits include setting goals, managing our time, and building our legacy.
Fostering Excellent Performance and Steep Growth Trajectory
Lack of interest in managing is not the same thing as being on a gradual growth trajectory, just as interest in managing is not the same thing as being on a steep growth trajectory. Management and growth should not be conflated.
The Mama and the Papa: A Lesson from the Grace Bailey
When a company has a leader at the top who demonstrates selling, customer-focused entrepreneurial energy and another leader who embodies and demonstrates the administration and financial controls, there will be healthy growth.
Training Top 125 Best Practice: MasTec Utility Services Group’s Crew Leadership Academy
The training center and 38-module program were specifically designed to support high-potential field employees in their effort to advance toward a leadership position.
Collaborating with the Dead
There are many brilliant minds of the near past and the soon-to-be-past that could be tapped as digital learning and problem-solving resources for generations to come.
Are Your Leaders Doing Only Half Their Job?
Don’t leave the quality of your work culture to chance. Make values as important as results with an organizational constitution.
Up Was Never for Everyone
Excerpt from “Up Is Not the Only Way: Rethinking Career Mobility” by Beverly Kaye, Lindy Williams, and Lynn Cowart, with permission from Berrett-Koehler Publishers (2017).
Flattened organizations and limited career ladders don’t spell the end of growth OR careers. Opportunities may be different, but they are still there. The next change frontier means changing the conversation and the mindset about careers.
Occupational Medicine: How Companies Can Cut Costs and Help Employees Avoid Wait Times
Urgent care centers can treat a wide variety of problems that employers may need to address with their workforce—from sprains and back injuries to broken bones—much faster than an ER or a regular doctor’s office.