How can you achieve excellence? Eric Barber, CEO of Northeast Regional Medical Center shares his tips. By Eric Barber, with an introduction by Jaclyn Crawford We all remember those posters we saw on the walls growing up in school: The ones with a scenic picture that read “perseverance” or “success.” Those tend to be nice wall decorations, but what if …
Five Ways to Motivate Your Workforce
Have you noticed a lack of excitement in employees when it comes to their work? Gary Kunath shares how you can revive your office. Employees have evolved in the past 10 years or so; they have different priorities. What makes them happy today is very different from what we once focused on as employee motivators. To get the most out …
Fight the Fat: Turn Your Ordinary Office into a Space to Get Fit
Most of us spend our workday sitting. We asked Glenneth Reed, Fitness Blogger at Let’s Talk and Walk, to give her suggestions on creative ways to stay fit at the office. With a full-time desk job, I spend almost 40 hours a week sitting in front of the computer and that’s not talking about the time I spend at home …
Ten Steps to Get that Promotion You’ve Been Eyeing
With appropriate planning and strategy, you can reach that promotion you’ve been eyeing An increasing trend in corporate America today is the feeling of being “stuck” in your current job, with little to slow opportunity for promotion. More executives are staying put because of economic conditions, fear of the unknown and valuing what they have even though they may be …
One Year Later: A Follow-Up with Barbara Kallay
VP of HR at Royal Caribbean, Barbara Kallay, elaborates on how she has adapted to her changing work environment Editor’s Note: In our Nov/Dec 2012 edition, we spoke with Barbara Kallay about her first six months as VP of Human Resources (HR) at Royal Caribbean. Now that she has been working in the role for more than a year, the …
One Year Later: Following Up with Brian Will
Brian Will, Global HR Partner at Momentive, shares how he has been successful during a time of transition Editor’s Note: Almost a year ago now, we spoke with Brian Will, who was just taking the reins as Global Human Resources (HR) Partner at Momentive. We checked back in with Will to see what he has been up to, how things …
From The Office: Issue 6 Reflection
Much like the features we have spoken with, we are constantly learning. Here is our reflection of putting together the latest edition of Forefront. Issue 6 came out last week, and we couldn’t be happier with the final product. In the midst of getting out this issue, we were learning a lot about the importance of communication, in and out …
Secret to reaching the top: Think, Act, Talk like a CEO
How can leadership be so difficult when defining its core principle is so easy? Leadership is simply the ability to get people to do what you want them to do Do you sit in your office day after day, wondering what makes a good CEO? Do colleagues ever ask you how you manage to do it every single day? Regardless, there …
Four for the Fourth: Great American leaders
For this holiday, we have brought together a list of who we think are four great American Leaders, and how we can learn from them today. By The Forefront Editorial team When brainstorming, there is never a wrong answer… or at least so they tell us growing up. The in-house editorial team recently got together to brainstorm “What is a …
When Graffiti and Business Collide: Creativity advice from a Graffiti Artist
How strategic thinking with the mind of an artist can get you far in business By Jaclyn Crawford Graffiti and business are two things that usually do not intersect, but in a twist of fate for Erik Wahl, author of “Unthink” and keynote speaker, he has been able to successfully intertwine the two, answering the long-standing question: How do we …