Would You Follow Yourself?
Leadership development starts with personal development. Lead from within. Self-knowledge is empowering. Lead from the inside out. Leadership starts with…
Seeing Mentoring and Coaching Through a Different Lens
To be an effective mentor and coach, you need to be good at building relationships. This month’s issue focuses on…
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The Key to Cultural Transformation
If you want to change your organizational culture, change the stories you tell. Post-pandemic, organizations are still struggling with how…
Leadership Development Has Never Been More Challenging or More Important
While it is hard to predict the future, leaders need to stay on top of trends. Here are some trends…
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Leaders: What Are You Rewarding?
Leaders need to realign rewards and recognition with desired behaviors. Since this Training issue features the annual Salary Survey results, I decided…
The Best Form of Recognition When Resources Are Tight
As a well-known book recommended: Find someone doing something right and take one minute and tell them. The best form…
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Leaders: Ask. Don’t Tell.
It is critical for leaders to model the behavior of questioning by making it safe to ask questions in ways…
A Legacy in “Crumbs”
We live our legacy by what we leave behind every day in small ways—with everyone we encounter. A comment I…
Soft Skills Are Now Core Competencies
Leadership experts now emphasize qualitative skills such as empathy and communication with as much rigor as quantitative skills such as…
Hybrid Should Be Here to Stay
Three reasons why being with others in the workplace—at least part of the time—is critical. As work and life face…
The Perfect Storm for Leadership Skills
Leadership experts now emphasize qualitative skills such as empathy and communication with as much rigor as quantitative skills such as…
“T” Stands for Teams of Trust
The pandemic has given leaders an opportunity to redesign work in ways that build teams of trust by putting people…
Attract, Engage, and Retain Employees—Create a Workplace People Love
Leaders need to provide the autonomy and flexibility for employees to find ways to love the job. And allow different…
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Needed: Leaders, Not Jerks!
Command-and-control leadership is not healthy, and it is not going to work in the new reality work environment. Now is…
Understanding “The Great Resignation”
Root causes could include: compensation, time between promotions, size of pay increases, tenure, performance, and training and development opportunities (or…
Put Employees First
Servant leaders clear obstacles rather than become the obstacles. In my January 2022 column (https://trainingmag.com/how-to-deal-with-the-great-resignation/), I described how leaders need to focus…
Solving the Hybrid Disconnect
The return to work needs to be a dialogue, not a decision. It looks as if the hybrid workplace is…
Create a Culture of Psychological Safety
A culture of psychological safety requires leaders to model openness and to allow people to pass if desired. After more…
Flexibility Is the Name of the “Game”
Post-pandemic, companies are going to have to lure employees back into the office. Post-COVID, companies are finding it even harder…
How to Navigate the “New Reality”
Leaders need to be prepared to communicate clearly about what the company needs, how the work can best get done,…
Putting Organizations Back Together Again
Now that we can see the light at the end of the pandemic tunnel, it is time to rethink, rebuild,…
Leadership for a New Era
COVID-19 has changed the game, and in the future, caring for employees’ well-being will become a significant management priority. In…
Leadership Practices for 2021
Leaders must shift their mindset and place people and relationships before projects and tasks. Last summer, I hosted a Virtual…
How to Deal with the “Great Resignation”
It’s important to realize that autonomy—not flexibility—is they key driver of performance and well-being in hybrid work. People are leaving…
Leaders Also Need Compassion and Self-Care
Self-care begins with you. The most important person to lead is yourself. When you invest in your own well-being, you…
Leading With Wisdom
This post is longer than usual, but it will not become my normal practice. I have tried hard to avoid…