How to Stop The Great Resignation

What is driving this historical moment in time where tens of millions of people have quit or are thinking about quitting their jobs in search of something new? The standard aspects of a job like career advancement, compensation, and benefits play a role, but it’s the human aspects...

The Reality of Work: Trends Come and Go, Where Are We Now?

Since the beginning of the pandemic, the workplace has continued to evolve in rapid and unexpected ways. For example, the move to working from home at the time seemed monumental, and the sudden shifts were destabilizing to many. Fast forward three years and working remotely...

Understanding and Growing Your Emotional Intelligence (EQ)

Emotional intelligence is basically about making good choices in emotional or social situations. It affects our relationships, our professional success, and, ultimately, our happiness. Unfortunately, though, emotional intelligence is also wildly complex...

Investing in Employee Experience: The Keys to Empowering a Culture of Leadership

Not surprisingly, creating a culture of leadership starts with evaluating the values, systems, and people processes that fuel your culture. At the organizational level, building systems that promote transparency, consistency, role clarity, and trust is the foundation for positive organizational culture...

The Great Resignation: When the Unflappable Manager…Flaps

Here’s what we know to be true: The Great Resignation is taking a toll on managers. With the job market full of uncertainty and quality workers hard to find; managers are feeling overwhelmed and stressed. While many organizations have invested in stress reduction resources...

Manage Your Energy to Do Your Job Well: 5 Tips for Constant Self-Renewal

Most high-achieving professionals care deeply about their work. They feel a strong sense of responsibility for people and projects and tend to neglect their own needs, especially in stressful times or when you need to adapt to change. If you fit that description...

Empathy in the Workplace: Overcoming Three Common Misconceptions

It’s no secret that many people love working from home. Over this past year, we were all tossed into a grand experiment in which many of us learned how to work remotely. Remote work comes with many advantages: suddenly, you are free to roll out of bed in the morning...

6 Principles to Engage and Lead Leaders

One of the most pressing issues facing many digital transformations inside organizations, especially those involving AI and machine learning, is that you have non-technical leaders leading highly technical designers, engineers, scientists, and implementors...

Soft Skills for Hard Times: How to Tackle the Virtual Culture Dilemma

With 2020 in the rear view and 2021 starting with more of a stutter than a bang, we are looking at what was once our “new normal” becoming just…life. As Forbes recently reported, 74% of CFOs intend to accommodate at least some employees working remotely for the foreseeable future...

4 Steps to Refine and Execute Your Team Goals

Too many leaders set vague goals like “improve customer retention,” leaving their teams unsure of how well they’re doing or even exactly what they’re working toward. FranklinCovey has developed a simple but powerful formula to identify where you are today...

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