Recovering trust is now your highest priority. As we slowly re-emerge from remote work and isolation, is your team strong and highly engaged? What we’re repetitively hearing from leaders is a loss of trust among their team. Here’s what you can do about it. This pandemic has assaulted your team’s sense of safety and connection …
“How do you manage these millennials?” Questions about leading millennials in the workplace are rarely asked without a tone of frustration. Established leaders are frustrated with the perceived lack of strong work ethic in the post-collegiate labor pool. The approach to work ethic for baby boomers is vastly different from the approach of millennials and the emerging …
The Power of Empathy in Leadership During a recent leadership development meeting with a client team, the word empathy kept coming up in our conversation. It came up as a necessary, yet clearly deficient, component in their approach to leadership. Would your team members say that you understand and appreciate what they are feeling? Among this particular team, there …
Every recognized national resource agrees: the statistics for employee engagement nationwide are staggering. And, not in a good way. Published average figures for employee engagement show 70% of all workers are disengaged. And, up to half that population is “actively” disengaged. This group is actually working against the stated vision of your team while continuing …
Do you remember the story of Jack and the Beanstalk? In the classic children’s fairy tale, Jack trades his valuable, but slow-producing, resource (the cow) for the get-rich-quick promise of a peddling shyster pushing magic beans. In the adventure that follows, Jack nearly loses his life in a battle with the giant on the other …
Listening well may be the simplest key to improving your team’s engagement and performance. Value is Conferred by Listening Most of my clients can easily rehearse the idea, “people only feel valued to the degree that they feel heard.” In the pursuit of creating a culture where people feel valued above process and product, we …
I live in a small town in rural South Carolina. Most of my client work is in the larger regional markets of Charleston, Charlotte, and Asheville. I love coming home to Hartsville. Matters of business, politics, and religion are still hashed out over bad coffee and good sausage. It is not unusual to find executives from Sonoco …