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Are You Looking at Recruiting as an Expense or as an Investment?
What a waste of freaking money. If you’re a business leader, I’m sure that’s exactly what you’ve thought about recruiting at some point! It’s tough not to view recruiting as an expense – especially when so many of the people you hire leave just a few months later. If...
How Teams Can Balance Productivity With Flexibility
Candidates no longer want flexibility – they are starting to demand it. In just a few short years, remote work and flexible scheduling have gone from rare perks to a minimum expectation for many professionals. As a business or HR leader, flexibility can be a bit...
How Can Leaders and HR Make Sure Employees Feel Heard
If you ask most leaders and HR professionals, they’ll tell you they wish their teams gave them more feedback. Everyone will tell you they want to improve and need feedback to know where and how to do so. So why is it that no one can get enough feedback from their...
The Danger of Making Assumptions as a Leader
Look, we’ve all been there. You’re frustrated with the way someone is behaving... So you jump to a conclusion about why it’s occurring. “They’re disagreeing with me because they don’t like me and think I’m stupid!” It can happen so fast you might not even realize...
Why Real Leaders Create People of Independence
I came across this quote on leadership some time ago that’s always stuck with me: “Real leaders create people of independence, NOT dependence.” It may seem simple on the surface. But it’s an important lesson for leaders. We’ve all known leaders with teams that...
The Secret to Creating Adaptable Teams
Change is the new normal. Unfortunately, few businesses have truly adjusted to this reality. For decades, businesses have leveraged a top-down leadership approach to guide their company. It may give you more control over how your business is run...but ultimately, it...
Elevating Team Performance Through One-on-One Conversations
Elevating team performance is one of the biggest challenges in business. You can recruit the right people, you can retain great talent, but if you’re not driving the right performance, it doesn’t matter! As a leader, nothing is more frustrating than knowing your team...
Responsibility vs. Accountability – Taking Performance a Step Further
Responsibility vs. accountability is a topic that can get easily confusing. The two are similar yet have key differences. These are key topics to understanding how to drive stronger performance in the workplace – which happens to be one of the biggest challenges in...
Are You Building Culture by Design or by Default?
Transparent. Connected. Motivating. These are just a few words we often use to describe strong company cultures. But for as much we talk about culture, there’s a lot confusion around what it really is, why it matters, and how we can build it at our organization. This...
Your Job as a Leader is Not to Make Your People Happy
“Your job as a leader is not to make your people happy.” It sounds strange. When you think of the best leader you’ve ever had, you probably think of someone who did make you happier. A great leader is friendly, supportive, and gives you encouragement when you need it...