Last week I crowd-sourced ideas for my post Approachable Leadership—Be a Beacon, Not an Island. The comments kept flowing in, long after I’d wrapped up writing. My friends and colleagues are an amazing source of wisdom. Here is a summary of their comments (used with permission.) The question was simple: What makes a leader…
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Emerging Workforce Study Highlights Key Worker Mindsets
I’m a sponsored blog partner with Spherion (a staffing and recruiting organization) and am participating in the release of findings from Spherion’s upcoming Emerging Workforce Study. All opinions are mine. Emerging workforce trends should be top-of-mind for both HR professionals and senior leadership in any organization. That’s why it’s so helpful when industry leaders in the…
When Leaders Should Demand Extreme Excellence
Daniel Goleman, pioneering researcher of emotional intelligence, recently poked holes in the common leadership refrain of “excellence at all costs.” In the early 2000’s Goleman identified six leadership styles, one of which was the “Pacesetting” style, characterized as a leader who: Sets high standards for performance and models those standards him or herself Has a…
Career Conversations: Leaders, Are You Getting It Right?
As a leader, how effective are the one-to-one career conversations you have with your employees? If you’re thinking “what career conversations?” you might be setting the HR department up for its next round of exit interviews. Don’t feed the exit interview beast; use “stay interviews” instead. You can learn more about the concept of stay…
5 Tips for Building a Successful Blog
What makes a blog “successful”? You can slice that definition any number of ways. For me, it’s a combination of three things: Engagement: how many people share the blog socially and comment on the blog? Opportunity creation: in what ways did the blog create opportunities for me professionally? Practicing the craft: how can I build…