As an executive or someone in a leadership position, it can be challenging to keep up with the ever-growing demands of the workplace. The higher you climb the corporate ladder, the more people expect from you. However, many leaders bristle at the idea of hiring an executive coach. You have the skills, experience, background and […]
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Voluntary turnover, at an all-time high, is costing US businesses over 1 trillion dollars a year. With up to 40% of employees expressing job-related dissatisfaction and stress, corporate leaders have reason to be concerned. Consider, for example, the Monday Morning Blues or the stress employees feel about heading back to offices or work after the
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Giving helpful feedback is challenging for new and experienced leaders alike. Few leaders (or people, for that matter) do it well. Yet, effective feedback is essential to develop and maintain high-performing employees and teams. When giving feedback, it is especially important that we be aware of our biases. Do you deliver critical feedback to women
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The Cajun Navy, an informal network of good Samaritans with small watercraft, mobilized once again in the last few weeks—this time to help the victims of Hurricanes Florence and Michael. Formed as a response to Katrina in 2005, the so-called Cajun Navy has saved thousands of stranded people and lives. Their emergent activity, now an integral component of hurricane disaster relief, has similar characteristics to what many Amish families experience with barn-raising when disaster strikes in their communities.
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“We need to give each other the space to grow, to be ourselves, to exercise our diversity. We need to give each other space so that we may both give and receive such beautiful things as ideas, openness, dignity, joy, healing, and inclusion.” – Max de Pree
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We hire leaders and team members with the future promise of their value through collaborative contributions, ideas and productivity. So what has turned once vital teaming partners into single-minded individual contributors?
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