| By Marissa Levin, www.inc.com | A recent study revealed that when leaders are stressed, their anxiety can be felt across the entire organization, often to the point where good employees will walk away from a job to save their own health. Only 7 percent of employees surveyed believe that their stressed leaders effectively lead their teams, and only […]
Master the Team Meeting
| By Julia Austin, hbswk.hbs.edu | No matter how much we hate going to meetings, there’s a generally accepted best practice that teams should meet with their managers on a regular cadence. More often than not, unfortunately, I hear leaders and their staffs dreading these get-togethers. Shouldn’t these meetings be looked forward to? That we felt they […]
The 5 Communication Tactics That Helped Me Become a Better Leader
| By Jordan Scheltgen, www.inc.com | Having a strong vision for your company is one thing. Being able to communicate it clearly is another ballgame. As a leader, your job can take on many roles from being in the trenches working alongside your teammates to excluding yourself and putting together top-line strategies for business growth or thinking about a […]
6 Signs You Are A Micromanager
| By Jim Schleckser, www.inc.com | As a manager or CEO it can be extremely difficult to self-diagnose whether you are a micro-manager or not. Especially if you run a fast-growing company, you might expect that your job entails staying on top of every detail, meeting, and conversation inside the business–let alone insuring that all your people […]
Tomorrow’s Best Leaders Will Lead With Questions, Not Answers
| By Carolyn Slaski, www.forbes.com | Americas Vice Chair of Talent, EY. Leading with intention, integrity and care so our people can make maximum impact in the working world. Disruption, complexity and ambiguity are the new normal in today’s working world. As a result, many leaders are finding they can no longer rely solely on their past […]
4 Traps That Get Managers into Trouble (and How to Avoid Them)
| By Bruce Eckfeldt, www.inc.com | If you’re a CEO or key executive in a growing company, you face many challenges. Almost daily you’re dealing with everything from developing a clear strategy and creating efficient processes to driving profitability and ensuring proper cash flow. However, as a business and executive coach, the one I see my clients struggle the […]
The Secret Ingredient to Effective Leadership
| By Ian Altman, www.inc.com | When it comes to effective leadership, success isn’t solely determined by driving revenue or spearheading innovation or setting a clear vision for a company. Effective leadership results from something more — a quality that is, often times, less visible and more difficult to carry out. Leaderswho possess this, however, are the ones who achieve the greatest […]
How Leaders Can Keep Their Cool in a Crisis
| By Mark Bonchek, Cara France, hbr.org | The word crisis suggests something that happens infrequently. But these days, crises have become a regular state of affairs. Brands that you’d think would be fairly immune to scandal have found themselves embroiled in controversy. And those that deal with public relations challenges regularly have still been caught off guard by a customer […]