Tag Archive for: leadership

The Power of a Smile

Smiling is a simple but powerful act; a lot can be said with a smile. Not only does smiling have a direct positive impact on our mental health but it also improves our professional work relationships while boosting performance and morale. Now, what does this mean in a business context?

Creating a Culture of Trust

Workplace trust is a fundamental building block of any professional relationship. No matter your level of seniority in a company, trust reflects your character, and company members will only experience cohesion with the people that they trust. We review some practical ways for you to build and or maintain your workplace’s culture of trust.

An Employee Retention Must Do: Why Gratitude Is Work Appropriate

Do you truly show your employees that you appreciate who they are not just what they do), making every worker feel valued and care for as people first? Before you turn your focus to your Thanksgiving plans, pause and communicate gratitude to all the individuals at your workplace who serve, support and guide you to innovate, and motivate you to bring your best self every day… You do not need a turkey to say thanks!

Strengthen Teams with Leadership & Talent Management

When we are helping companies re-engage their employees it only takes a slight change in focus, from the busy-ness of the work day, shifting over to spending maybe 4 hours to plan something like a quarterly event. Leaders can start to strengthen teams by doing these three things.

The 7 Qualities of People Who Are Highly Respected

Respect is something not automatically given. It must be earned. When you’re in a leadership position, it is imperative that the people with whom you work respect you. Here are 7 tips for earning respect.

10 Things Your Employees Aren’t Telling You

A great leader needs to drive forward and inspire the team to focus ahead in order to achieve success. But these leaders must connect empathetically with the individual team members and realize that not all followers think like a leader or even want to do so. Still those same team members are often afraid to express their real thoughts for fear of negative repercussions from the leader and other colleagues. Here are 10 thoughts you should make it a point to surface.

Leadership and Management – Become A Leader of the Best

Microsoft founder, Bill Gates once said, The worst thing about an average employee is not the mistakes he makes. The worst thing is that he is taking up space that could be occupied by someone phenomenal. We couldn’t agree more with Mr. Gates.