Anna Carroll, author of The Feedback Imperative, explains why feedback is an essential nutrient for the health of your employees and the company. By Anna Carroll Everyone’s focused on workplace happiness and how to attract and retain great employees. Leaders are encouraged to create a fun workplace, avoid micromanaging, and give lots of positive feedback and recognition. These are all …
Cultivating Ease: The Less Stressed Executive
Reducing stress not only benefits your body, but it also makes you a more valuable leader. By Christina Scalera You are tired, weary and downright fatigued. You are not sure how you are going to get through another day, another client, another investor meeting. You are an executive, but you are human nonetheless. And even though your list of accomplishments …
The New Airborne Virus: Online Reviews
The online review genie is out of the bottle for good. Reputation management is a buzzword being thrown around a lot lately. Businesses intuitively know that they need to care about it, but what is it really? In reality, it is nothing new. Successful businesses have been doing it all along. Successful businesses protect and build their reputation — they …
Learning to Lead: It’s Not For Everyone
Is leadership right for you? Qlik’s Chief People Officer, Diane Adams, explains the realities and difficulties of effective leadership.
A “Smart” Business Language That Spoke for Change
Neil Gaydon, President of SMART Technologies, shares his experiences on how he led change and diversified his company into new industries. By Neil Gaydon I was brought into SMART Technologies over 18 months ago to provide it with a new direction. SMART’s global platform owes to its status as the largest supplier of interactive displays in the world of education. …
#realtalk Advice for Millennials in the Workplace
Andrew Krause and Timothy Parker, CEOs of AKA Media, give Millennials tips on how to rise to the challenges of today’s workforce As two Gen Xers who started our video communications company in the late nineties, we’ve embraced youth as our company has grown. Embracing youth today means working with millennials. From a management view, millennials in the workplace represent tremendous …
Professional Pointers from Your Kids: Defining & Achieving Success
Vice President of Administration and Chief People Officer, Jill Lehman, explains three ways she has learned to By: Jill Lehman One of my early childhood mentors said to me, “Everyone defines success differently and only you know what you can accomplish.” In other words, you have to define what success means to you. And you have figure out how to make …
Professional Pointers From Your Kids :Use the Force, but Don’t Force It.
FlipBoard General Counsel Cecily Mak discusses the importance of patience, deliberation, and thoughtful assessment when it appears you’ve hit a wall. “Don’t force it.” – Dad I grew up very much a tomboy: fishing, building treehouses, collecting rocks and bugs, playing a variety of sports, and generally making and then breaking all kinds of things. I never owned a single doll or …
Professional Pointers From Your Kids: Mother Goose Simple
John Page, Senior Vice President of Golden State Foods, describes why it is important to get down to the basics. By John Page C.A.Y.G.O. (clean as you go) is one of the first things I learned as a teenager on my first job as a crew member at McDonald’s over thirty years ago. This tool helped me focus on first …
Professional Pointers From Your Kids: Do What You Do Best
Mike Rude, CHRO at Catamaran, recounts how he found the true meaning of following your passion from his son. By Mike Rude In my various HR roles, I have spent almost 25 years giving other people career advice, helping them answer questions like, “Is this job a good fit for me?” and “What should my next job be?” and “What …