How to avoid the four traps of decision-making During the second day’s fighting at Gettysburg on July 2, 1863, Colonel Strong Vincent, a brigade commander in the Army of the Potomac, learned from a passing courier that the Union left flank was undefended and that the Confederates were advancing on Little Round Top. Seizing this position would allow the Confederates …
7 Steps to Successful Leadership
ServiceMaster’s former Chief Information officer, Linda Goodspeed, describes the core priorities to being a solid leader. Be Open “I believe you have to have an open-door policy and an open mind. You can’t just get information from people who directly report to you. You need to reach down deeper into the organization and create relationships throughout all levels to develop …
Boosting Employee Productivity & Positivity Through Health
How managers can improve their employees work and by focusing on their health habits When the Founder and Chairman of an international company is diagnosed with cancer at the age of 56, it’s not expected that an announcement would be made to all the clients and field operations around the world. But that’s just what I did. As the Founder …
Executive Insight: Understanding the ‘Why’
With the help of her team, Transplace CHRO Adrianne Court gets to the bottom of why employees change positions Editor’s Note: We asked some of our featured executives what they thought of the recent finding that 21 percent of full-time workers will be leaving their current position in 2014. Here is Adrianne Court’s response. I’m not surprised by the CareerBuilder …
How to Manage Distracted Employees
Prevent your team from losing focus by understanding how distractions start As managers know, workday distractions are everywhere, stealing your employees’ precious time and productivity. Between new technologies that beg for people’s attention to the prevalence of shortened attention spans, everyone on your team has the opportunity to be more distracted today than in the past. Of course, being distracted …
Building a Personal Brand
Five steps to defining and executing your own. If you’ve been following the news lately, it’s not uncommon to hear reports of off-the-cuff comments made by C-Suite executives who have disrupted their companies’ image in the marketplace. Just as a defined brand for a company is critical, equally so are defined personal brands for executives. Successful leaders exemplify their company’s …
Executive Insight: Attracting & Retaining Top Talent
Karen Stout, SVP of HR, shares Arbonne’s initiatives to improve employee engagement. Editor’s Note: We asked some of our featured executives what they thought of the recent finding that 21 percent of full-time workers will be leaving their current position in 2014. Here is a response from Karen Stout, Senior Vice President (SVP) of Human Resources (HR) at Arbonne. She …
Having Your Social Media, and Getting Work Done Too
The top five ways enterprise social collaboration can boost organizational productivity The social media revolution has changed the way people interact in their personal lives, and now it is inevitably changing the way they collaborate and connect in the workplace. Enterprise social collaboration is a way for organizations to leverage social tools to improve employee engagement, bolster productivity and tap …
There Is No Good Way to Manage People
… But we have to try anyway “People are people,” the old saying goes. That means everyone brings their own personal baggage with them to work. People make poor choices, act rashly and defend their own comfort zones. People have agendas all their own that often have nothing to do with the work agenda that you, as the manager, are …
Executive Insight: Retaining Top Talent in 2014
Finding power in the question, “What will make you stay?” Editor’s Note: We asked some of our featured executives what they thought of the recent finding that 21 percent of full-time workers will be leaving their current position in 2014. Here is John Schierer’s response. Your best talent is always looking for an opportunity, so the survey data is not …