Leadership skills

How To Manage Employee Performance Using An HR System HR systems provide companies with a multi-faceted approach to all staffing considerations. For example, issues may include attracting the right staff, monitoring employee performance, and highlighting areas of training that could lead to greater staff retention rates.

5 Keys to Keep Your Company Growing The business world rewards companies that keep growing and punishes the rest. I am curious to know what makes the difference between the tiny number of companies that keep revenues growing at over 20 percent a year and the rest whose corporate arteries are caked with growth-impeding bureaucracy.

Want To Be A Bold, Inspiring Leader? You Need These 3 Qualities We all likely have role models who inspire us with their boldness. For me, they’re Michelle Obama and Kamala Harris. Obama is honest about who she is and the struggles that got her to where she is today. Harris is breaking barriers both in her role as vice president and in her modern family. Both women are unapologetic about who they are, and that’s inspiring to millions of people around the world.

How Leaders Can Increase Employee Well-Being Through Quality Questions The most common challenge I hear from leaders these days revolves around the ongoing struggle with how to support their employees’ well-being during a prolonged pandemic, virtual work, and constant change.

Leadership Is Responsibility “Leadership is responsibility.” Today’s COVID-19 catastrophe makes Peter Drucker’s quote incredibly relevant. As the pandemic radically changes ways that companies do business, people continue to be uncertain about the future.

9 Ways Leaders Can Increase Productivity, Customer Satisfaction, And Employee Engagement I’ve long believed that people power business and that as leaders, we need to value relationships over transactions.

Seven Things Leaders Should Focus On In Lockdown During 2021 We’ve all just experienced a ‘false dawn’ - the huge swell of hope, relief and expectation that the first Covid vaccine brought us has been roundly squashed by the reality that is January, a new virus variant and tighter restrictions once again in many parts of the world. But this isn’t March 2020. We’ve learned so much in the last ten months, and now is the time to apply that.

What 2020 Taught Us About ‘Growing’ Future Leaders The lessons from 2020 will be mined for years to come: sociologists, behavioral scientists, public health researchers, political scientists and many others will be kept busy for quite some time. Among other things, 2020 has taught us quite a few lessons on developing our future leaders:

Don’t Be The Leader Who Works Hard On The Wrong Things The CIO of a large manufacturing company was frustrated, exhausted, and feeling rather unappreciated. He and his 1500-person organization had overseen a complicated, multi-year technology transfer and integration resulting from the company’s largest acquisition in its history.