Leadership skills

3 Ways Great Leaders Make Their Organizations Adaptable As businesses work not only to survive this global pandemic, but also to thrive in a rapidly changing world, speed and agility are paramount. To be successful, businesses have had to respond quickly to this year’s major disruption, adapting their operations to provide what their customers need.

As A Leader, Are You Asking The Right Questions? We all want to be persuasive. We want to influence, and we want our voices to be heard. For some people, that means speaking up. Telling people what to do. But the people who seem to gain the most respect are the ones who are able to challenge the status quo without ruffling feathers. I’ve asked many executives over the years how they do that, and the answer is the same every time: Don’t make statements, ask questions.

How To Empower Your Team: It’s All About Leaning In, Not Stepping Away Many organizations have been trying to shift from a model of authoritarian leadership to a model of worker empowerment. As firms are finding out, that transition is not an easy one to make. It requires new behaviors and new ways of thinking for both executives and employees.

Leaders: Do You Know How To Listen? Listening comes from a position of strength. Telling comes from a position of fear and control. We all listen (to varying degrees), but we rarely listen actively.

No, You Should Not Fully Reopen The Office Yet Three key reasons why you should not fully reopen the office ... yet.

Six Trends Are Changing Leaders Across The World Over the past 16 months, author Jacob Morgan interviewed over 140 CEOs from companies like Audi, MasterCard, Unilever, Best Buy, Oracle, Kaiser, Verizon, and dozens of others. This was all done as part of the research for his new book, The Future Leader, which examines what it will take to be a leader in 2030 and beyond. One of the questions Jacob asked all of these CEOs was around the most significant trends shaping the future of leadership.

How Do Leaders Inspire Continuous Improvement by Employees? “If you're still in the same role in two years, I've failed.” This statement was made by a Vice President to an employee who had taken the job working for him right out of college. This statement had a big impact on the employee. He had never thought that helping employees grow and develop as part of the role of a leader.

Why Leaders Get Blindsided And What To Do About It Since the extreme turbulence caused by the current global pandemic began, businesses have faced challenges that few could imagine or predict. Historic unemployment levels in 2020 have had an ironic effect on some leaders – lulling them into a false sense of security that the people in their organization are so grateful to have a job, they wouldn’t dream of leaving. This is more than an illusion, it’s a delusion and not the only one that can creep in as leaders grow weary in the ongoing crisis

Looking Back and Looking Forward: The Navigation of a Crisis for a Small Business Like any crisis, there are lessons to be learned in this pandemic.