This week we’ll kick off a 25 week series exploring the 25 competencies, or soft skills, that our assessments measure. Each week we’ll give you the definition of that competency, explain its value, and give you tips to help you develop it. Up first: Conflict Management Conflict Management is defined as understanding, addressing, and resolving … Continue Reading
If you want to be a true leader you have to be able to provide feedback. And not just any feedback, but effective feedback. In my experience, this is the greatest fear of most new managers. How do you provide constructive feedback without hurting your employee’s feelings? Kim Scott has laid out a simple and … Continue Reading
In the military when they want to get the full, real-time picture of what’s happening in a war zone, they call it getting the ground truth. It’s one thing to draw up a brilliant battle plan back on home soil, but if you’re not aware of the tactical realities on the battlefield, your plan won’t … Continue Reading
Training and development is an area that every company knows they should be focusing on, but not many take the time to ensure that it is happening. When budget cuts are made it is often the first line item to get slashed. But that can be a mistake. If you’re not taking the time to … Continue Reading
Updated for use in our Leading Through COVID series. This is the final week in our six part series about leadership styles. We’ll be using the six Leadership Styles as defined by Daniel Goleman in his book Primal Leadershipand we’ll be exploring how each of those different leadership styles can be useful during this new … Continue Reading
Just like death and taxes, employee turnover is a fact of life. Every company experiences it at some level. Some companies even live in fear of losing one of their star performers. They become beholden to employees because they are so anxious not to lose them. Don’t get me wrong, I’m a strong believer in … Continue Reading
Updated for use in our Leading Through COVID series. This is the fifth week in our six part series about leadership styles. We’ll be using the six Leadership Styles as defined by Daniel Goleman in his book Primal Leadershipand we’ll be exploring how each of those different leadership styles can be useful during this new … Continue Reading
Leaders in a company slowly start to move farther and farther away from front line employees as a company grows. This can create a gap in the communication between the two groups. What once was easy, because you interacted with every employee every day, now has to become an intentional exercise. Without addressing this breakdown … Continue Reading
Updated for use in our Leading Through COVID series. This is the fourth week in our six part series about leadership styles. We’ll be using the six Leadership Styles as defined by Daniel Goleman in his book Primal Leadershipand we’ll be exploring how each of those different leadership styles can be useful during this new … Continue Reading
As a company grows, staff buy in weakens. Employees that have been with the company from the beginning start to feel stifled by newly created rules and regulations and they have less access to the CEO/owner. Newly hired employees have a hard time connecting with the original passion of the company. You, the CEO, have … Continue Reading
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