Employee retention and productivity are challenges facing most employers today. Monitoring your team’s engagement and and their alignment with the organizational mission is fundamental to organizational success. The number one way to foster engagement is to ensure your managers understand the crucial role they play in their team’s commitment or lack thereof to the mission. […]
employee engagement
Forget Hired Mercenaries. Leadership Development Coaching is Where It’s At
Organizations that hire outside CEOs to fix problems and issues often don’t succeed. Find out why leadership development coaching is a better tactic. What do today’s organizations do when they get into trouble with productivity? More and more, they are hiring “professional CEOs” to come and bail them out. The idea is that these “hired […]
On Leadership and Conversation
Harvard Business Review recently published an article titled “Leadership is a Conversation” in their June 2012 edition, that discussed the waning of the traditional top-down, command-and-control approach to management. The article cites a bunch of reasons why this model has gone by the wayside, including globalization, new technologies, and the new ways in which companies […]