5 generations of employees will be working together under one roof. Are you prepared for the unexpected? As Gen-Z enters the workforce, for the first time in history, five generations of employees will be working together under one roof, at least for a short period of time. In this...
We are facing a ransomware crisis that has already impacted our society and continues to cause havoc and devastation. Ransom attacks, banking on stolen information, are also on the rise and will soon surpass ransomware attacks due to the simplicity of the crimes. In the recent ISACA Ransomware...
Leaders focus on the parts rather than the whole. The CEO’s job of crafting a strategy that creates and captures value—and keeps realizing it over time—has never been harder. In today’s volatile and uncertain world, corporations that have dominated their markets for decades can be blindsided by...
Coaching isn’t therapy. It’s product development, with you as the product. — Fast Company magazine Business experts often cite coaching as an effective way of enabling employees, by making sure they embrace their jobs and maximize performance. By coaching, I don’t mean those all-hands-on-deck...
Listen to the Webinar Recording/Download the PDF BelowGiving effective employee feedback is a valuable but sometimes poorly executed or even neglected skill. While effective feedback can grow and develop staff, improve levels of trust and communication within an organization, and strengthen bonds...
When you’re a leader, you rely on your team members to tell you the truth so you can make thoughtful decisions and feel confident that you know what’s going on. Most of them repay your trust with truthfulness (marked, on occasion, with a bit of self-serving spin). But sometimes, you’re faced with...
Employers should create the best possible conditions for employees to do their life’s best work in the here and now. The sorrow of parting with a key employee is anything but sweet. Sure, it will cost an arm and two legs (and a few months) to recruit someone new and train them in. But that is just...
In a meeting recently, a successful serial entrepreneur, who wants to shift to becoming a full-time investor, remarked that they were going back to school to get an MBA at the age of 45. I asked, why? The answer was surprising to me. Even though this entrepreneur had built several companies (north...
If you can't find workers, you're not alone. At each keynote speech I give, I ask the audience to raise their hands if it's difficult to hire new employees. Just about everyone raises their hand. I then ask if they have trouble retaining them. Again, nearly everyone raises their hand. As the U.S....
Nobody likes to be micro-managed. Yet nearly all of us have felt the intense pressure of a manager who was too involved in the minutiae of our daily work lives. There are many reasons why leaders micro-manage. In some cases, a hands-on approach actually has benefits, according to this...
SWOT is a Dreadful Way to Start a Strategy Process. I am tired of reading SWOT analyses. My annoyance is not because of the amount of time I waste reading them — which is a lot. It is about the time some poor souls wasted putting them together. That is why I have decided to write my 28th Playing...
You may think your company is too small to have a chief financial officer (CFO). Or maybe you’re considering hiring one once you’ve reached a certain size or level of profitability. But you might find value in having CFO knowledge even for a few hours a month. First the “why”: The right CFO can...