LEADERSHIP & MANAGEMENT
Asking the “Six Whats” Will Help You Strengthen Workplace Problem Solving
t’s an understatement to suggest this is a time for creative problem-solving in our organizations. Everything about how and where and when we work is being challenged along with how we engage and serve our customers in the marketplace. Too often, we react to symptoms...
Lead Change is a leadership media destination with a unique editorial focus on driving change within organizations, teams, and individuals. Lead Change, a division of Weaving Influence, publishes twice monthly with SmartBrief. Today's post is by Eileen McDargh. In...
The New Role Of Trust In Business In A Pandemic
Leaders who aren’t trusted—or who don’t trust others—can communicate all they want, but people will discount everything they say.ricts remote work for employees who could reasonably work from home, it often means they can’t deal with the perceived lack of control they...
How Leaders Can Regain Trust in Untrusting Times
Pandemic confusion, police brutality, corporate corruption and unchecked elitism have eroded our faith in leaders who are supposed to act in the collective best interest of others. In this opinion piece, Wharton adjunct professor of management Gregory P. Shea offers...
4 Practical ways to Grow and Learn from Hard Times
It’s no secret that we’re faced with a growing mental health crisis right now, and many of us are experiencing incredible amounts of pain and suffering. A Kaiser Family Foundation poll reported that nearly half of Americans report the coronavirus crisis is harming...
Four Skills That Revolutionize Team Communication
In my last two articles, I’ve explored the concept of a team’s Conversational Capacity®. Conversational capacity is the ability to have open, balanced, non-defensive dialogue about tough subjects and in challenging circumstances. Teams that have a high conversational...
Take Your Virtual Meetings to the Next Level
One of the dangers of remote meetings is the predictable nature that many of them take on. Standard agendas. A short slide presentation. A few key contributors. No wonder it’s so easy to become distracted. And yet, videoconferencing platforms offer a variety of...
Spot These Types of Hidden Talent in Your Organization
You know your company has hidden leaders, just waiting to be uncovered and given opportunities to shine. But how to find them? Your underrepresented talent pool contains some high-potential leaders held back by their gender, ethnicity, orientation, culture or even...
It’s Time to Rethink Work for the COVID-19 Era—performance Management is the First Step
I’m a huge fan of formal performance reviews. In my 10 years leading technology companies, I’ve come to see these exercises as invaluable. When done right, they can change careers, take working relationships to the next level, and increase employees’ happiness and...