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5 Leadership Growth Tips
Beth Armknecht Miller has successfully trained hundreds of leaders, developing their leadership skills in order to propel them forward in their careers. Beth takes her 10+ years of experience and reveals her Top 5 Leadership Growth Tips on The No Formula Podcast. Beth...
The Difficult Employee Puzzle
Difficult employees, we’ve all had to deal with them in our lives. And for many of us, we’ve had the unenviable task of managing a few of them as well. Sometimes our efforts paid off while other times it didn’t. What was it that you did to manage the situation that...
Your Emotional Intelligence a Psychological Safety
As employers start to move employees back into the workplace, they will need to make employees feel safe and secure, not only physically but emotionally. The term psychological safety has become a popular term recently, but what does it actually mean? It is "a...
Minimizing Your Recruiting Bias
We all have bias, conscious and unconscious. The unconscious biases we have are the ones that can really get us into trouble when we are hiring and building our team. A recent article in Forbes by Dr Pragya Agarwal outlines methods to minimize your unconscious bias...
The Leader as a Coach
I have been catching up on my reading over the past few weeks, and I was excited to find an article from Harvard Business Review, The Leader as a Coach. It supports much of what I’ve been coaching others over the past decade. Ask questions when employees come to you...
Successful Promotions Require Parachutes
At least 50% of my coaching work is the result of a promotion gone bad. Why? Because companies haven’t spent the time to develop employees to take on future roles. While these mistakes keep me busy, they are costly to the organization and the individual who wasn’t...
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.