Answering the Tough Questions This Holiday Season
The holidays are the perfect opportunity to see those friends and family members you’ve “really been meaning to catch up with” and answer the questions you’ve avoided asking yourself all year. That’s right folks, the season is upon us, and you’re about to come face to face with your denial. If you're getting together with people you don’t see often, [...]
Top Articles from 2018
If you’re like us, 2018 was a big and busy year, and there are probably still quite a few things left on your ‘to read’ list gathering dust in your bookmarked pages. To make it easy for you, we thought we’d share our most popular articles from 2018! 10. How To Tell Someone They Did a Bad Job 9. What Separates [...]
What Gets in the Way of Planning Our Lives
I’m a planner- I can’t help it. Most people who know me would use “organized” and “planner” in the top 10 (likely 5) words to describe me. I’m a planner in all areas of my life except one- my Life (capital L). Not the small or medium life stuff- the big Life stuff. What to do with my life or [...]
Culture Killer: THE HOLIDAY OFFICE PARTY
‘Tis the season to dread the office holiday party. It’s hard to please everyone, so it’s hard to plan the perfect event that makes people feel appreciated for their hard work all year and not patronized with a plate of Santa-shaped Rice Krispie treats to make up for a year full of professional heartache. There are a few things you [...]
Culture Killer: MEETINGS
Holding horrible meetings is an exquisite kind of torture that the very best of the very worst bosses out there have worked really hard at. And they’ve gotten good at it – honing their craft towards slowly killing their cultures – one miserable meeting at a time. The good news is that for those hell-bent on squandering all that’s good [...]
Fun at Work: Not an Oxymoron
Years ago, I found myself in a job that JUST WASN’T FUN ANYMORE. I complained about it just like that, too – in an all-caps, whiny-voiced kind of way that likely made The Husband feel the same way about his life (or at least about me). I’ve had jobs that were riddled with fun over my career, which for [...]
How Strong Is Your Company’s Talent Management?
Leaders fret about whether they have the talent they need to compete in the ever-changing market in which they play. This is one of those nagging concerns for CEOs. One of the reasons this concern doesn’t go away is many CEOs recognize that their company doesn’t have the talent management skills that enable a stable and predictable flow of quality [...]
Your November Leadership Inspiration Calendar
Great leaders consistently possess certain core leadership traits, one of which is the ability to inspire others. What happens when you, as a leader, need a little inspiration yourself? Look no further, friend. Here’s your month of November looked after, chock full of daily tips and techniques to inspire your team, for you to dole out as you see [...]
Culture Killer: MOTIVATING YOUR TEAM
If you don’t want to be a dick(tator) of a manager, you absolutely need to motivate your people. But if you’re a leader who’s unwittingly or even wittingly messing up your company’s culture*, then this list might describe you uncannily well: You still have motivational posters in your office from the late 90s with images of teams rowing together in [...]
The 4 Stages of Talent Management
Consistently having the right people ready for promotion is something that great companies are very good at. The “right people” are smart, motivated, aligned with your company’s direction and culture, and they are strong leaders. The problem is that most companies underinvest in making sure that they have a stable and predictable source of future leaders. Most companies struggle [...]
What to Read for Your Career Development
There are times when we can’t handle our career management on our own anymore, when career coaching and an outside perspective from a coach are what we need to move ourselves and our career forward to have that extra push and help with accountability. If you’re not there yet or not ready to pull the trigger on coaching, below are [...]
The Painful Truth About Your Resume
There’s a statistic floating around that hiring managers will spend an average of seven seconds per resume. There’s another that says recruiters spend an average of about three minutes on a resume but have formed an opinion within the first 60 seconds. Have you been sending out enough resumes to fill a freight train and wondering why you’re not hearing [...]