5 Simple Ways to Gain Respect
Do you often feel disrespected? Here, Inc. columnists share insights on how to get the respect you deserve.
How to Improve Your Leadership Skills
There are several core leadership skills that are considered important traits to help you become a more effective leader. Whether it's taking the initiative, developing critical thinking skills, or learning how to motivate and empower those around you, you must constantly be challenging yourself to enhance your leadership capabilities.
Leading with Humor
How, exactly, can organizations and individual leaders get their employees to laugh more?
Got Too Many Meetings? Here’s How to Cut Back
Too many meetings on your schedule mean low productivity with all of your other work. You really can learn how to reduce your workload of meetings — and still make...
How to Create a Culture of Gentle Accountability in 3 Steps
Here's how leaders can hold their teams accountable in a more supportive and meaningful way.
Your Values Can Be Compromised When You're Under Stress. Here's How to Get Them Aligned Again.
Core values change based on the state of our nervous system and our body's physiological response to stress. Use these tips for shifting from fight, flight or freeze into calm and building values as micro-habits.
What is Employee Coaching (and what it's not)?
In the business world, employee coaching is considered one of the first steps to improve performance within an organization.
Management of Differences
Because the presence of differences can complicate the manager’s job in so many ways, it is of utmost importance that he understand them fully and that he learn to handle them effectively.
5 Tips for Managing a Diverse Workforce
A diverse workforce brings great value to an organization, but it can also bring challenges. As an employer, how do you effectively manage workplace diversity?
The Surprising Power of Peer Coaching
The authors offer guidelines that will help you learn more about yourself and the organization you lead. By asking for support from others and creating a safe place for exploration, you’ll build foundational skills for all future personal and organizational growth.
3 Leadership Skills That Encourage A Culture Of Excellence
Encourage a culture of excellence in your organization through empowered delegation, coaching, and rewarding.
Why Encourage Excellence instead of Perfection
Are you a perfectionist? Or do you strive for excellence?
How do you address your employees' weaknesses?
What is the best thing to do with a weakness? According to the Gallup Poll data, the most successful managers don’t normally try to fix an employee’s weakness. Instead, they work around it. Ignore it, if possible. While this sounds counter-intuitive to some, it actually agrees with what most of us have noticed in life. Consider coaching.
Four Ways Leaders Can Promote Excellence — Not Perfection
To shift toward the pursuit of excellence, you have to accept reality: Perfect doesn’t exist! Then, you can start taking actions that promote a culture of excellence within yourself and your organization. Here are four powerful shifts you can make.
The stress of leadership: why it matters
Not only can a stressed leader be bad for business, but it will also often lead to them missing the signs of stress within those they lead. Clearly, both these impacts can lead to a downward spiral of failure, stress, further failure and so on. What can leaders do?
How Can Leaders Help Their Teams To Better Manage Stress?
Leaders can play a key role in managing the stress levels of their team. So, what should they be doing to alleviate stress, especially given the increasingly dispersed nature of the workforce?
Why Is Accountability Important in the Workplace?
Accountability in the workplace is all about setting and holding people to a common expectation by clearly defining the company’s mission and values.
How To Create A Workplace Culture Of Accountability
Accountability is a common concept, but what does it really mean in the context of your small business?
How To Make Tough Business Decisions Easier
In a perfect world, your business would never be in a situation where difficult decisions need to be made. However, the reality is, easy choices are rarely the norm, and tough decisions are often needed.
Why Accountability Is Vital To Your Company
Good behaviors can be hard to enforce — but if you avoid accountability, everything else will become a lot harder, too.