Topic: Leadership

25 silver linings found amidst the crisis

11 min read

We reached out to some of our friends and colleagues with a simple question: What’s one silver lining that’s come out of the COVID-19 pandemic?

Company Culture

How to stop micromanaging your teams and start promoting leadership

7 min read

What’s one thing all micromanagers have in common? They don’t trust their people, and as we know, trust is at the core of any high-performing team. Particularly in industries like tech, where autonomous work is essential to efficiency, micromanagement can be a morale killer. The best managers are adept at delegating work to highly engaged…

People Management

How to inspire your managers to be steady, effective leaders

8 min read

This is an updated excerpt from our Surviving an Economic Downturn with Talent Optimization guide. You’ve come up with a revised business strategy. You’ve taken necessary and even difficult initial action in the face of the COVID-19 crisis. The next steps are all about organizational resilience. Now you must inspire your people to push through…

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COVID

A tale of leadership and connection in crisis

6 min read

In a time of extraordinary crisis, this is a fictional story of leadership, parenting, empathy, and personal connection.

executive making the case for investing in employee engagement

Company Culture

The behavioral mistake leaders make in crisis

6 min read

In any time of heightened pressure, our instinct is to revert to our most natural behaviors.

COVID

Execs, do the right thing by your people.

4 min read

Often, employees have no warning that layoffs are imminent. And so when they do come, they hurt like a sucker punch. We need to do better by our people.

COVID

How to address the radical disruption of working remotely

6 min read

Although remote work can bring major boosts to performance, this abrupt shift will bring disruption before it produces benefits.

marketing team members aligning on strategy

Organization Design

Leadership lessons from disaster management: Are you reacting or responding?

8 min read

The essence of disaster management includes how to acknowledge, and adapt to a highly fluid situation.

Organization Design

7 talent stats technology execs need to know

6 min read

In the product-led world of technology, it’s easy to take designers and engineers for granted. Here are seven stats on the importance of talent in tech.

Organization Design

7 powerful talent stats for people in professional services

5 min read

Interested in the importance of talent strategy within your industry? Here are seven powerful talent stats for those in professional services.

Teamwork

The sales leader’s guide to building an enablement library

3 min read

Creating a sales enablement library of content and training can help get new salespeople up to speed quickly and improve sales efficiency.

People Management

Raising better leaders: best leadership conferences 2020

6 min read

We’ve rounded up the best leadership conferences of 2020 across the U.S. and Canada to send your existing and future leaders to.

People Management

Quotes about leadership and teamwork (to help you get the most out of your people)

6 min read

These quotes about leadership and teamwork can provide inspiration as you begin your journey toward becoming a better leader.

Woman tailoring her leadership style yo fit her employees

People Management

How to tailor your leadership style to fit your employees

5 min read

As a leader, it can be difficult to manage a team of diverse behaviors and skill sets. Learn how to tailor your leadership to fit your employees’ needs with this blog.

Organization Design

Does behavioral style impact how you lead?

4 min read

Here’s what we discovered about what individual behaviors drive strategy selection and how these behaviors influence leaders’ confidence in their strategy.