Trust is vital in the workplace, but sometimes a scarce resource. Check out these sobering details: Is trust a scarce resource where you work? What actions do you take to help “renew” trust in your workplace?
Leaders – How Do You Manage Your Energy?
Are your leadership challenges a study in personal growth? Or are they more like a test of wills, with you forcefully moving ahead, trying to seek resolution as quickly as possible? Struggling can seem a lot like thrashing about, trying to free yourself from a constricting situation. Challenge (and yes, sometimes even failure) is a…
Gen Y and Leadership – Young Professionals Speak Up
Are young professionals unwilling to step up to leadership in the same way as their older counterparts have? That’s the issue on the table in Filling the Leadership Pipeline – Developing the Reluctant Emerging Leader, an article I wrote for Huffington Post. The article’s premise is that there are plenty of talented, willing younger workers…
The Neuroscience of Leadership – Are You Causing People Pain?
When your employees make a bonehead mistake, do you give them a good whack upside the head to show them the error of their ways? No of course you don’t. If you’re a good boss (and I know you are) even though you might be tempted to give them a little thump, instead you offer…
Who is Waiting for Your Praise?
Mr. People Equation and I had a yummy Chinese dinner the other night and this was in my fortune cookie. Think about it – there are any number of people out there who would benefit from a brief and sincere show of thanks. They probably aren’t actually waiting for it, but I bet it would make their…