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As the wave of #MeToo stories have come to light over the past year, it’s become painfully clear that whatever organizations are doing to try to prevent sexual harassment isn’t working.

Here are some tips that employers and employees can follow to ensure that your company’s culture promotes a healthy work-life balance.

We all agree that coaching and development are critical to transformative leadership. However, there is just one major problem: we don’t practice it! Why

How can you tell if a leader has political skills? The answer: if they appear not to have any such skills at all.

Delegation benefits managers, direct reports, and organizations. Yet it remains one of the most underutilized and underdeveloped management capabilities.

If conventional approaches don’t suit complex organisations, what does? We identify four tools that may be used to guide these organisations in a way that preserves their innate ability to learn and adapt in their changing environments.

How can we bridge this artificial ‘divide’ between strategy and execution?

What causes this lack of strategic thinking amongst people in an organisations? And how can we resolve the situation?

Many would argue that we have be more “strategic” in our approach. Job advertisements and role descriptions describe the ideal candidate in these environments as being strong “strategic thinkers”. What does this really mean and how can we develop that ability?

But no matter how great the thinking, the strategy is useless unless it gets executed. Most senior leaders know that developing strategy is only the start of the process.

How then can we ensure that a positive culture, with a focus on patient care, be encouraged, and inappropriate behaviours and performance be reduced?

To adapt, and survive, organizations must take advantage of every bit of institutional talent. But this can happen only if leaders first embrace the need to change.

Five years ago, Google — one of the most public proselytizers of how studying workers can transform productivity — became focused on building the perfect team. In the last decade, the tech giant has spent untold millions of dollars measuring nearly every aspect of its employees’ lives.

With the pace of change accelerating, virtually every team leader must be able to continually clarify where the business is going, why this is necessary, how everyone can contribute and what their efforts are achieving. This requires being clear in several important areas.

Teamwork and collaboration are critical to mission achievement in any organization that has to respond quickly to changing circumstances. My research has not only affirmed that idea but also surfaced a number of mistaken beliefs about teamwork that can side track productive collaboration. Here are six of them.

Creating a high performing team is not always straightforward. However Patrick Lencioni summarises here the key components for improving team dynamics and creating a team that gets on well while achieving great results

The GROW Model is a simple yet powerful framework for structuring your coaching or mentoring sessions. We'll look at how to apply it in this article and video.

Frequent recognition is a surefire – and affordable – way to boost employee engagement…

Imagine you’re walking down the hall and your boss is coming toward you. As you get a few feet apart, the boss says, “Could you come into the office for a few minutes? I’ve got some feedback for you.”…

Research shows that ‘appreciation for a job well done’ consistently ranks highly as a motivator in employee surveys. Yet research also shows that most people don’t feel they get enough praise.

I was a complete and total control freak. I just knew that if I handled everything myself, it would get done faster, better, and more efficiently. Delegating to others would mean wasting time, losing control of my projects, and worst of all, showing weakness. Or so I thought…

The vision of leadership permeates the workplace and is manifested in the actions, beliefs, values, and goals of your organization’s leaders. This vision attracts and affects every employee who is engaged in living this set of actions, beliefs, values, and goals. They want to share your vision.

Some scoff when leaders share bold ideas, imaginative goals, and seemingly impossible dreams, but ideas, imagination, and dreams are the fabric positive leaders weave together to create the future and change the world.

Are we asking too much to have our workforce, our colleagues and our team members engaged in their work?

Lately I’ve noticed a little trap that people can fall into. One they set themselves up for. Like so many barriers to our own success, it comes down to a choice of words. That choice is between ‘confidence’ and ‘courage’.

There's a common belief that "you are how you are" when it comes to "soft" skills (interacting with other people) – and that there's little or nothing you can do about it. Fortunately, this is far from true. And a great place to start improving your soft skills is by developing the ability to empathize with others.

Learning to pronounce a colleague’s name correctly is not just a common courtesy but it’s an important effort in creating an inclusive workplace, one that emphasizes psychological safety and belonging.

Conventional change management approaches have done little to change the fact that most change programs fail. The odds can be greatly improved by a number of counterintuitive insights that take into account the irrational but predictable nature of how employees interpret their environment and choose to act.

With so many change models out there to follow, why is organizational change still so difficult?  Why do some efforts succeed and similar efforts fail?

We can all be blind, at times, to the world around us. We might think we know how stuff works, what drives our people, that we’ve got the solution to the problems. But do we really?