Insightful Articles for Leaders

Situational Leadership^® – Relevant Then, Relevant Now

Workplace Dignity in Leadership

We all have good days and bad days at work. What sustains us through those peaks and valleys is our workplace dignity (WPD)—the personal sense of worth about what we do and the goals we’re chasing. At a time when organizations rely heavily on their leaders to navigate relentless change while keeping their teams connected and engaged, it is easy to overlook the needs of leaders. […]

Remote Manager Handbook

As organizations across the globe quickly shifted to remote work structures, much of the responsibility for ensuring continued success falls on the shoulders of managers. To ensure success and engagement within their team and the organization as a whole, managers must focus on their employees’ core needs: clarity, communication and consistency. This handbook is designed […]

Remote Employee Handbook

As organizations across the globe quickly shift to remote work structures, employees that were accustomed to working in a centralized location found themselves in a new world of work—in their home. The usual business routines, processes and collaborative practices that worked in a centralized setting need to be adjusted or revamped entirely to support a […]

Designing Training for Behavior Change is Like Fine Dining

There are some things that the term “dinner” has in common with the term “fine dining” … but for most of us, those words conjure up drastically different imagery.

Prioritizing the Employee Experience

Let’s start with a workforce trend. A trend that has been accelerated in so many ways by the global pandemic we are all sick and tired of and is further supported by the inescapable evidence (and ongoing aftershocks) of The Great Resignation. That trend is: the employee experience.

Three Keys to Effective Leadership Training

There are a number of things to consider when evaluating the effectiveness of leadership training. But we think these three should gravitate toward the top of your list.

Performance Improvement is Inside Out

When you see the words “performance” and “improvement” sitting next to each other in an article like this, the left side of your brain usually goes on full alert. It does so because traditionally strategic discussions on the topic of improving performance favor facts, data and objectivity.

Soundbites for Consideration

Formulating effective strategy requires working your way through any number of complexities and landing on a soundbite that intuitively describes the essence of your pursuit. To the extent that developing future leaders describes your pursuit, here are a couple of soundbites for your consideration.

E-Book: Moving to Sustainable Multimodality Learning

As the shift to hybrid and dispersed work environments becomes normalized, virtual learning has emerged as a foundational modality for L&D leaders around the world. Now, converting historically in-person soft-skills training, like leadership, Emotional Intelligence and coaching, to virtual is a common priority across organizations. This resource is for L&D leaders tasked with expanding their […]

E-Book: Maintaining a Learning Culture Through Change

Training and development across the globe were reimagined to face the new and evolving needs of 2020 and beyond. This e-book makes the case for continuing training in your organization and fostering a learning culture that is flexible and resilient with change. It provides a path forward for any organization, regardless of your current starting point, to enable continuous training under any circumstances.

Embracing the Vulnerabilities Associated With Learning Something New

Jim Yong Kim immigrated to the United States when he was five years old, growing up in a town called Muscatine, Iowa. To simply describe him as talented would be to disregard the instructive value of his journey altogether. By the same token, it would be easy to do because his achievements are difficult for mere mortals to wrap their heads around.