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How to Improve Decision-Making and Innovation in the Workplace
There’s the good and the bad of having so much knowledge at our fingertips, literally. It’s easy to “Google” the answer to any question. Knowledge is no longer held in the hands of a few. But, do we...
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Are You Sailing Without a Rudder?
Starting a career in management can seem like it’s all about giving orders or telling people what to do. Then, as we get more experience and become more knowledgeable about running a business, we can...
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How Leaders Can Create Positive Attitude
by Karlin Sloan Employed people ages 25 to 54 spend an average of 8.8 hours working each day, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Because of this large time commitment, the workplace is...
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How to Manage Conflict When You’ve Angered Someone
Ever been late for an appointment and the first thing you do is justify why you’re late? Or, you anger a co-worker who mis-reads your email of how he can perform better? When you email him back to...
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Can Data Help Us Hire Better Talent?
by Helen Whelan Hiring the right person for a job can be difficult at best. Managers often hire people like themselves or focus too much on past experience. Lou Adler, a former executive search...
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Steve Case on Innovation, Entrepreneurs and Risk
Steve Case, the founder of AOL and currently the Chief Executive of Revolution, an investment firm, probably makes one of the best distinctions between entrepreneurs and large companies in his...
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Richard Branson Key Leadership Skills Video
Have you ever noticed how large companies will often describe “entrepreneurial experience” as a key desired trait for future employees. No wonder. It takes a certain steely resolve and “do whatever it...
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What Siri Can Teach Us About Effective Communication
By Lois Zachary One day after a long frustrating interchange with Siri, I shouted, “can’t you find any information at all on that topic? What is taking you so long? Her response? “I am putting myself...
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Ethics of Business Videos & Getting Clear
Employees of a disengaged manager are four times as likely to be disengaged themselves. It’s contagious. Productivity suffers but also without thinking of the larger ramifications, a manager can lead...
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9 Powerful Courageous Leadership Questions You Want to Ask
by Sandra Ford Walston “Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can never hurt me.” This time-worn saying is false. For example, “a stone is thrown” when someone says, “I don’t care how you do...
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5 Ways to be a More Appreciative Leader
by Karlin Sloan “There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread.” Mother Teresa (1910-1997); Founder Of The Missionaries Of Charity We all like to be appreciated. It feels...
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Leveraging Diversity the Achilles Heel of Business
Workplace diversity is usually touted as a great way to innovate, gain multiple perspective and compete. Yet, in practically every industry and around the world, it is a sorely underutilized strength....
View ArticleListening, the Best Tool for Problem-Solving?
by Helen Whelan Listening is one of those things that can look like it’s really easy and passive but it’s just the opposite. And, if you feel passionate about something or know “the answer,” it can be...
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What’s Honesty Got to Do with Business Performance?
It isn’t just brilliance, or hard work, or innovation that determines if a business is successful–although surely those factors help. No. The secret to optimal performance is…drumroll…honesty. Halley...
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Edward Snowden: Courageous Leader or Just Plain Paranoid?
Scrutinizing the Latest Events in the NSA Scandal by Lee Ellis Edward Snowden Photo: The Guardian As a former POW in the camps of North Vietnam, I think my comrades and I saw the purest example of...
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Popular Cross Generational Video Training Nips Conflict
And in one corner, you have the Boomers and what they think of Millennials: “They’re so lazy. They don’t have a good work ethic” Squaring off on the other side, you have the Millennials and what they...
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Business Training Video Library for a Time Pressed Audience
Most likely you’re training young folks and you want to engage them in the important interpersonal skills you’re teaching. Or, you’ve got a group of managers who are hard-pressed to give you their...
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Growth Junkies More Important than Growth Markets?
by Peter Thies Ask anyone to describe the current post-recession economy and they’ll give a terribly unexciting answer: “sideways”, “sluggish” and “creeping upward”. Ho-hum… According to the...
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Do You Feel the “Luv” at Work?
by Sandra Ford Walston How often do you hear a CEO declare with pride that his or her organization has never had a layoff, furlough or bankruptcy? Photo: dmagazine Southwest Airlines CEO Gary Kelly...
View Article11 Trainer Turnoffs to Avoid
Do you remember “Sing along with Mitch?” Reading the words as he sang? It’s not nearly as entertaining when a trainer reads the words on a Powerpoint to his or her class. Don’t do it! That’s just one...
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