| By Ann Latham, www.forbes.com | “I hadn’t realized how entrenched I was in so many time-wasting habits until Ann Latham made them transparent. It’s almost embarrassing,” said Jim Goodwin, CEO of CHD. Just a few days ago, I talked with another client who told me that after working with me, he can’t not see the lack of clarity […]
Want To Improve Your Professional Confidence? These 3 Tools Will Help
| By Lelia Gowland, www.forbes.com | What if everything your teachers and parents tried to instill about self-esteem actually made it more difficult to bounce back from failure? Psychologist Kristin Neff believes just that. According to Neff’s research, the “indiscriminate praise” showered on kids in the 1990s set them (us) up for disappointment. While the Sesame Street meant well, all that […]
Three Books To Help Develop Your Self Awareness In 2018
| By Dan Pontefract, www.forbes.com | I recently spent three weeks touring the coastlines of Australia. Between the Gold Coast, Byron Bay, Manly Beach, Sorrento and Adelaide I devoured some wicked surf and sand in the land Down Under. (Not to mention fantastic beer and wine.) Someone needs to hire me so I can move there. I […]
3 Management Fundamentals That Will Serve You Well In 2018
| By Victor Lipman, www.forbes.com | We often tend to make things harder than they are. While you’ll never catch me saying management is an easy job (if it were, we’d never have around 70% of employees chronically disengaged), some of the basics underlying success involve far more common sense than complexity. In this spirit, let’s look at three […]
Define Your Culture, Don’t Let Your Culture Define You
| By Suzanne Hyatt, www.forbes.com | A recent study on the Employee Experience by IBM and social recognition provider Globoforce revealed a direct link between company culture and employee performance and retention. There is also increasing evidence linking company profitability and culture. Clearly, culture is important. And the critical component in both creating and defining culture, according to […]
How To Become The World’s Worst Manager In Seven Simple Steps
| By Bruce Weinstein, www.forbes.com | The field of management is littered with men and women who are willing to settle for being mediocre. Mediocrity is easy. Awfulness requires courage, focus, and dedication. What does it take to be truly terrible? If you consistently apply the following seven simple rules, you’ll go beyond what is merely acceptable […]
3 Ways Writing Down Your Goals Can Help You Become Top Of Mind
| By John Hall, www.forbes.com | With the new year comes talk of reflection and resolutions: building more, selling more, maybe even exercising more. Last year, I noted thatself-awareness is the key to the best resolutions and committed to four goals as a leader of my company. As the year progressed, I found that one of the most […]
Five Research-Backed Techniques To Develop High-Performing Leaders
| By Kavita Sahai, www.forbes.com | Leadership in the corporate world seems like something we should have figured out long ago. However, approximately 35% of companiesconsider their leadership development practices to be below-average or poor. The increase in millennials in the workforce has shone a light on this issue further. In one survey, 93% of millennials reported leaving a company to […]