Lessons in Leadership
Employee Listening is more Important than Ever
The majority of us continue to work remotely as our country moves from response into recovery. We find ourselves without familiar team members around us and many of us continue to be challenged with anxiety and constant change. Now more than ever leaders need to...
Stop Treating Your Employees like Mushrooms
Originally published in Entrepreneur.com, April 22, 2016 Update You’ve probably heard the expression “feeling like a mushroom,” which is to say feeling kept in the dark, left uninformed and fed a bunch of sh--. Think shiitake mushrooms. Now, research...
Leaders Moving from Surviving to Thriving Post Pandemic
As our country starts to move toward “recovery” leaders need to shift their attention to the future and what recovery will look like in our new world. Most of my coaching conversations recently have been about the future, which is promising. Leaders have shifted their...
The Power of Good Questions
A recent article by Jeff Haden in Inc Magazine, highlights the importance of asking questions to help build stronger relationships between leaders and their employees. Haden focuses on the weak question that many of us use both in our personal and professional lives;...
Leadership Lessons During COVID
Over the last several weeks most of my coaching conversations have focused on leadership issues related to the current pandemic. Fortunately, many of the companies I work with have not had to lay any employees off, and a number of them are in a financial position to...
Your Emotional Intelligence Is Your Kryptonite
Leaders around the world have been working in a new normal, trying to assist their employees with a variety of challenges that no one could have imagined at the beginning of 2020. Most leaders have gotten to their positions using both their IQ and EQ, Emotional...
Beth Armknecht Miller’s passion for learning and dedication to bringing out the best in others are strands woven throughout her career and are found in her work with Executive Velocity, a top talent and leadership development advisory firm.