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22 Self-Improvement Areas for Leadership Development
An HRPA study from 2016 reports that 63% of millennials complain that employers aren’t fully developing their leadership skills, with 72% of those surveyed last year insisting on feedback, coaching and leadership development to remain in an organization. I have previously covered the 11 key traits that define great managers, compiled after 17 years in…
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7 Reasons Why It is Difficult to Manage New Projects (Or Inherit an Old One)
What makes projects so difficult to manage? As a project manager, you need to assess the culture, your role, your team, how problems escalate, what your responsibilities are and how to tackle edge cases (delays, problematic team members, running out of budget, handling scope creep, disagreeing with a client, etc.) Organizations that use proven project…
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How to Build Trust and Loyalty as a Leader
Remember the old saying, “People don’t quit jobs, they quit managers.”? It’s similar when the people in charge are at fault. Highly motivated and enthusiastic people, or people who want to make a change, give up because they don’t feel their leadership sees the future in the best possible manner. That leadership does not take…
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8 Crucial Business Skills to Weather the Recession Storm
The current decade has been turbulent at best, challenging business paradigms, industrial practices, and biological presumptions across the planet. It begs the question: What is the successful route to developing resilient business skills for the years to come? From a global pandemic ranking near the Spanish Flu of 1918-1920 to worldwide lockdowns suffocating the travel…
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Leadership Development: How to Promote and Grow Your Management Team
According to several independent studies, 80% of leadership positions have no formal training at all. If you run a mid-sized business and promote your management team internally (as the majority of the organizations out there), you likely fall into the majority of the businesses that grow organically. Management, along with leadership, is often taught “on…
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Creating an Employee Performance Review and Feedback Workflow
Resilience is my number 1 hiring trait. As a manager, you will have ups and downs with your employees, and your feedback should reflect this. The relationship with your employees is a journey with its share of triumphs and challenges. Your feedback should mirror this journey, offering both praise and constructive criticism in a timely…
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The 4 P’s of Employee Relations and Conflict Management in the Workplace
Workplace conflict costs $359 billion in paid hours or 385 million working days annually. This is according to the “Workplace Conflict and How Business Can Harness it to Thrive” report. There were news articles about Apple employees having concerns about the ‘rigid’ rules in hybrid working, while Google’s people were frustrated about the ‘two tiers’ remote…
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Onboarding Best Practices That Every Business Should Use
Onboarding new employees is an essential part of the recruitment process. Skipping this requirement can backfire big time. 35% of HR leaders say focusing on the onboarding process to help new hires feel engaged and be productive as soon as possible works best when it comes to fostering overall employee engagement. Paychex But here’s the…
