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...
Five Traits of a Successful Business Leader
There is no surefire recipe for success. There are, however, certain traits which are common to virtually every successful business leader. Here are five that are consistently regarded as...
Business Resolutions for 2020
Operating and managing a business can sometimes feel like a battle against the tide. The lull before the start of a new year offers a welcome respite and is...
Using “Time Multipliers” to Increase Productivity
The term “time multiplier” is self-explanatory. Time multiplying tools and strategies deliver significant tangible outcomes for a disproportionately small investment of time, energy and/or money. So why is something...
Intuitive vs. Methodical Problem Solving: Finding a Solution?
If problems weren’t problematic enough, it seems there is a prerequisite to solving them that many of us are unaware of. The first step of problem-solving should be to...
Building a Strong Work-from-Home Culture
The workplace has evolved at a phenomenal pace over the past decade. Few factors have had a larger impact on this change than the widespread embrace of remote employment....
Business Trends for 2020
Change may be the only constant but keeping up with change is the perennial business challenge. The last quarter of 2019 is the perfect time to incorporate emerging business...
Key Traits Essential for Improving Leadership Skills
After millennia of analysis, the consensus is that there is no Holy Grail of leadership. Still, when certain traits manifest themselves in cadence, they give individuals a natural flair...
Tips to Successfully Conduct Diversity and Inclusion Training
Even as we approach 2020, many organizations are still struggling with how to conduct diversity and inclusion training. Regardless of the makeup of an organization’s workforce, diversity and inclusion...
The Importance of Asking for Advice
The Importance of Asking for Advice Terms with similar meanings sometimes lose their nuance in a busy workplace. “Feedback” and “advice,” often used interchangeably, are the perfect examples. As...