The Pink Collar Recession
While viruses themselves may not discriminate, the effects of Covid-19 are proving themselves oddly lopsided. These effects manifest at both ends of the female-dominated work spectrum in what has...
Keys to Creating and Communicating a Return-to-Work Policy
As we begin to see the easing of stay-at-home orders and the gradual return to the workplace, the key to success may be the ability for a business to...
Business Strategies for an Uncertain Time
Change is the only constant, yes, but the sheer magnitude and latitude of change sparked by the novel coronavirus seems to have outfoxed even the most agile businesses. Over...
Digital Communication: Giving Effective Feedback
As the world adjusts to the COVID-19 pandemic, digital communication is standing in for every day, face-to-face interactions. This requires business leaders to rethink how to work effectively with...
The Skills Needed to Build a Successful Remote Workforce
There is no denying the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the American workforce. This pandemic has clearly been a learning experience for everyone. Business leaders have been forced...
Redefining Your Personal Brand During a Crisis
In the business world, 2020 will go down as one of the most disruptive years on record. Overwhelmed by the coronavirus and suffocated by the consequent forced confinement, most...
Get the Most Out of Your Remote Brainstorming Sessions
In today’s business world, being able to manage remote team members is critical. The ability to lead online meetings - particularly brainstorming sessions - needs to be a priority for...
Reinventing Your Business in a COVID-19 World
The burden of leadership is especially heavy in times of crisis. Fortunately, such periods are also peppered with opportunities to reinvent and reinvigorate your business. Agile entrepreneurs are already...
Crisis Communication with Stakeholders is Critical
In times of heightened emotions, it is almost too easy to squander goodwill built up over years. As with all things of value, good crisis communication with stakeholders is...
Managing Cash Flow Crisis with Culture
Crises reorder priorities. As we reel from the commercial reverberations of COVID-19, it is clear that money - cash flow, specifically – is a leading priority for businesses. However,...
Facing Challenges with Gratitude
Over the past weeks, many of us are finding ourselves in uncharted territory. We are having to do all of our day-to-day work activities - including managing clients, conducting...
How to Ensure Effective Remote Working During a Crisis
The business landscape is changing daily as we learn more and more about Covid-19. Chances are, you have recently transitioned into a telework situation within your organization or you...
Coronabusiness: Leadership in a Crisis
Seesawing stock markets, careening oil prices, and a growing undercurrent of apprehensiveness in virtually every facet of our lives. Welcome to the world of COVID-19, more commonly known as...
Encouraging Teambuilding to Boost Productivity
Most managers come to realize that the greatest roadblock to peak employee performance is… other employees. Some conflict is inevitable when a group of people comes together for eight...
Looking Beyond Inherent Forms of Diversity
“Diversity” is the current buzzword of the American workplace. While well-intentioned, our approach is too often, literally, skin deep. The downside of token diversity is a world of cosmetic...
Take These Steps to Become a Great Leader
There is an innate desire in almost all of us to shape the world to our liking, to our perspective. Leaders use that desire to unify people around a...
The Search for Proactive Solutions
One well-known axiom says that the first step to solving a problem is recognizing that the problem exists. Another wise saying goes: Don’t shoot the messenger. At the intersection...
The Keys to Employee Retention
A low staff attrition rate is one of the most telling characteristics of an organization on the rise. Long-serving employees are more likely to excel in their individual roles...
The Importance of Leadership & Learning
The words “leader” and “learner” are not just similar in spelling, they are also intimately related by concept. Leadership stems from learning, both in what we learn from books...
Diversity Breeds Success
According to a recent report, minority business enterprises accounted for more than 50 percent of the two million new businesses started in the United States over the past ten...
Succession Planning: What to Consider
A succession plan is one of the most overlooked policies within many organizations because it is viewed simply as a tool for continuity. More accurately, though, it is a...
Keeping Your Team Motivated During Times of Change
In business, stagnation means surrender. Keeping up with the relentless pace of innovation is not a burden to be borne on a leader’s shoulders alone; a concerted and cohesive...
The Changing Landscape of Business
At no time before today have actual advances in technology lined up so well with our expectations of the future. We have abandoned the whimsical “flying cars” imagery of...
Promoting Cross-Generational Communication
For the first time in history, we are seeing employees range in age from 18 to 80. Four distinct generations – Baby boomers, Gen X, Millennials (Gen Y) and...