If you enact a leadership role, you have some measure of influence. And you also likely don’t see yourself as a manipulator. Do you know where influence stops and manipulation begins? Read on to learn what two prominent authors who’ve conducted extensive research on leadership and change management have to say about this important distinction….
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Help Your Team Be More Productive with these 4 Tips
If you asked your team members what saps their productivity, what would they say? They’d probably mention unnecessary meetings, interruptions or poor communications, right? What if — shockingly — you were listed as one of the reasons that your team couldn’t get their work done? Wait a minute, you say, I’m not a micromanager; I…
SkillSource of W. Michigan, Inc. is now The People Equation, LLC
Are you looking for SkillSource? That’s the name of the training and development consulting company I operated from 1995 to 2015. In the autumn of 2015, I decided to more fully pursue freelance writing as a career. So I shuttered SkillSource and turned my personal blog into a new business, The People Equation, LLC. As…
Manners Matter at Work
Far from being an outdated, quaint throwback, manners are still in vogue at work. “Please” and “thank you” go a long way towards greasing the cogs of social interaction in the workplace. You might be skeptical of my claim, given our country’s current election cycle. But look past the soundbites of the 24/7 news cycle,…
Continuous Improvement for Self and Others – Aha Moments for a Pharmaceutical Leader
Leadership is a balance between managing the business and leading people. It’s this interplay between business and people that prompted Kevin Wurch to seek out an executive education program. Wurch, who is an Associative Director of Program Management for the digital medicine program at Otsuka Pharmaceuticals, is fortunate to work for an organization that espouses…