| By Guy Itzchakov, Avraham N. and Kluger, hbr.org | Giving performance feedback is one of the most common ways managers help their subordinates learn and improve. Yet, research revealed that feedback could actually hurt performance: More than 20 years ago, one of us (Kluger) analyzed 607 experiments on feedback effectiveness and found that feedback caused performance to decline in […]
Six Essentials Proven To Produce Results For Your Women’s Leadership Program
| By Cari Coats, www.forbes.com | Corporations across the globe are working to solve their gender leadership gaps. Study after study reveals the financial and competitive advantages to greater gender balance in executive and board leadership ranks. Leadership development programs for women proliferate. But there’s just one problem: Many of them don’t seem to be moving the […]
Build a Tower, Build a Team
TEDTalks Tom Wujec presents some surprisingly deep research into the “marshmallow problem” — a simple team-building exercise that involves dry spaghetti, one yard of tape and a marshmallow. Who can build the tallest tower with these ingredients? And why does a surprising group always beat the average?
How to Get People to Accept a Tough Decision
| By David Maxfield, hbr.rg | Imagine this: You’re a general manager for a manufacturing company and orders are up. You know you should be celebrating, but instead, you feel gut punched. Your plants are facing severe capacity and material constraints and you know you can’t fill these orders. Now you have to decide which ones to […]
Top 5 Ways That Otherwise Good Leaders Fail
| By Ron Riggio for Psychology Today | I’ve worked for a lot of bosses, and in the course of consulting and networking, I’ve been able to observe hundreds of leaders. The good leaders stand out. They are effective, and generally admired in their organizations. But even the very best leaders make mistakes, and those mistakes often negatively […]
Leadership Small Groups are Key to Culture Change
Leadership Freak In my journey of transforming a corporate culture to one that is servant-led, I’ve learned the value of leadership small groups. The purpose of leadership small groups is to create a safe environment for leaders to discuss the challenges they are having in changing the culture. In our company, Datron, anyone with a […]
The Morning Routines of Super Productive People
| By Melody Wilding, www.forbes.com | How do you start your day? Do you jolt awake at the sound of your alarm blaring? Or do you mindfully ease into the A.M. with a healthy meal, exercise and setting goals for what you plan to accomplish? Your mornings can set the tone for your entire day. It can […]
These are the Most Important Minutes of Any Meeting
| By Stephanie Vozza, www.fastcompany.com | Few people like meetings, and that’s probably because they’re increasingly overtaking the workday. Over the past 50 years meetings have grown from less than 10 hours a week to nearly 23 hours, not including impromptu gatherings, Harvard Business Review reports. That’s more than half of our workweek. “Meetings may seem too frustrating and […]