This month’s Frontline Festival from Karin Hurt’s blog Let’s Grow Leaders focuses on change. Not surprisingly, Karin had a record number of submissions for this topic. The phrase “how to deal with change” is a frequent keyword search for this blog. People are highly curious about how to deal with transitions and navigate changing situations….
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Leadership Musicality – 3 Tips to Make Your Communication Hit the Right Notes
When my daughter started ukulele lessons, her instructor explained that music is composed of three things: “melody,” which is made up of notes along the scale, “harmony,” which is the chords, and “rhythm,” the beat of the music. In listening to this explanation, it was easy to draw parallels to how leaders communicate messages to…
How to Get Workplace Morale Right
There’s plenty of media coverage about what organizations are doing wrong when it comes to workplace morale. Where are the stories of leaders and organizations who know how to get workplace morale and employee engagement right? All this week, a group of editors, writers and leadership thinkers chose to focus on what is working, rather than…
Ideas for Creating Positive Workplace Morale
What companies are “doing” workplace morale right? That’s the question up for discussion via a series on workplace morale, which is running on both the Switch and Shift blog and SmartBlog on Leadership. In the spirit of promoting what tactics work for organizations, this series highlights the ideas and companies that are creating positive morale and thereby…
#IfIWere22: Career Advice to a Younger Jennifer
Oh, to be 22 years old again! All of my body parts firm, none of my joints creaky. And the energy – tons of it! But would I really want to be in my early twenties again? Eh, probably not, but it’s fun to imagine what I would say if I could travel in a…