One of the secrets of today’s most agile organizations: Instead of spending time preparing for what they think might happen, they put their energy toward anticipating and managing change of any kind.
The most effective teams seem to anticipate what each person – and the business as a whole – needs. They support each other at every step, uncovering creative solutions to tough challenges, and they often make it look easy
The most successful teams are empowered. But creating a workplace where everyone is able to take charge can be tricky. How can you ensure productivity, pointing everyone in the same direction, and avoid absolute chaos?
Great leaders aren’t born – they’re developed and molded. It takes a good deal of training, trial and error, and some well-earned experience (not to mention a willingness to continually learn).
Motivation is an ongoing process featuring both big, dramatic moments, and a lot of smaller, more subtle ones. Understanding all these different ways motivation can work is essential for keeping your team productive, happy, and engaged.
Employees who report to effective managers are over 15 times more likely to be high performers. They’re also more than three times more likely to stay at their job.
What does it take to be an effective manager? It’s a question many in the management field have been asking, with increasing urgency, over the past few years.
What is a good leader actually doing that makes them so effective? Although good leadership is certainly a talent, it can still be taught and developed.
We defined the talent optimization discipline in 2018. Since then, the concept has evolved to serve as a revolutionary link between business and people practices.
Good managers take the time to hone a set of skills – ranging from hard and soft, technical and social, and so forth – that allow them to respond quickly, empathetically, and intelligently to a variety of situations.
We’ve got a real issue on our hands. Understanding the factors driving the human energy crisis is essential to helping our employees recharge.
Increasing productivity doesn’t have to cost a lot. It can be as simple as shifting a mindset, or providing the proper motivation.
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In my work with executive and strategic HR teams, I try my best to reinforce a simple truth: Top talent always has a choice.
