We are inundated from all sides by data, yet what I really pay attention to are the stories. They are the anecdotes behind the ‘why’, the ‘how’, the ‘where’ and the ‘who’. They touch us emotionally in a way that facts and figures don’t, and at their core they speak to...
If you’re like, me, you’ve been watching the recent ‘outing’ of sexual harassment cases of major celebrities and executives with, I’m sure, some very personal thoughts. Whether this is a tipping point of the relationship between the sexes I’m not sure, but clearly...
It’s rare that a company will ever look at its hiring effectiveness except when someone was a critically bad hire, or they left early, and you’re not exactly sure why. As compared to the metrics around sales performance, profit per sale, customer turnover etc., taking...
Many leaders think they’re doing a terrific job of communicating with their teams, but leaders fall short in all sorts of ways, as shown in the graph below from “The Top Complaint’s from Employees About Their Leaders” survey. In my role as facilitator between company...
For anyone making a move to a new leadership role, there is a quick realization that you are walking into a never-ending cascade of grey. Your accustomed norms of company culture, how people interact up and down, team dynamics, etc. are all in flux. Your challenge is...
In your company’s journey there is nothing more important than the creation of your own unique story that people will care about. Simply put, people need the sense that what they’re doing matters! Over the years, businesses have set goals for their employees and teams...
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