Happy People and Bottom-Line Results: How Bankable Leaders Deliver Both
Bankable leaders create prosperity in the form of achievement, health, happiness, and wealth for themselves, their team, and their organization.
Employee Engagement: A Burning Platform?
If your organization is committed to retaining its best people, here are three time-tested principles to keep them engaged.
Sales Training at Tandus Centiva
The sales training curriculum at flooring company Tandus Centiva (A Tarkett Company) focuses on four main areas: Fundamentals, Core, Market Segment, and Elective.
Get Lost Leadership!
When we only take the well-trodden paths and fear getting lost (even for a short while), we lose the essential purpose of leadership—to create the future in the face of the unknown; not to take people to a pre-determined future (that is supervision, not leadership).
HR and The Line: Reinventing the Relationship
Line managers need to be entrusted more than ever with the tools to act on their own initiatives within the context of their organization’s strategy. By activating the line, HR can transition from spending too much time on tactical, day-to-day operations to making more strategic contributions.
Strength-Based Lean Thinking
A strength-based approach to Lean Thinking creates a committed and focused team working on an improvement initiative with a keen search for possibilities rather than problems.
Supercompetent Speaking: Adding Flair to Your Presentations
You don’t have to be Steve Jobs or Bill Cosby, but try to inject some flair into your presentation to bring it to life. Even if your audience remembers only a few percent of your speech the next day, you want it to be the few percent that inspires them to make changes in their lives.
Which Bird Are You? Taking Flight with the DISC Styles
For trainers committed to long-term application of insights gained in their training programs, matching the DISC personality styles to eagles, parrots, doves, and owls is an easy and memorable way to help learners connect with what they represent and remember it.
Getting Started with Camp BKD
“Camp BKD” is an extensive onboarding program held three times each year for new hires who generally are joining CPA and advisory firm BKD right out of college. Camp BKD brings new employees’ expectations in line with the firm’s expectations.
Empowering Your Employees to Make Decisions
Many of us tell customers that our employees are empowered to do whatever it takes to make the customer happy. In reality, the employees are afraid of making decisions and being reprimanded for doing what, in the manager’s eyes, was a wrong decision. Here are some suggestions to give employees the right tools to make the right decisions and, therefore, feel empowered.