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Measuring Employee Engagement to Improve Your Company’s Bottom Line
Measuring employee engagement—something most companies don’t do and many companies get wrong—can help leaders determine what actions they need to take to improve their engagement levels. Engagement is about emotions and emotions impact our behavior, so they are an...
Top 5 Behaviors Important for Executive Leaders in the 21st Century
Today’s world presents new challenges for modern leaders, and certain behaviors are becoming more important to excel at if you want to succeed. First, managers and leaders are not the same thing. Managers do well at the business side of things, and leaders do too—yet,...
A “Budget Friendly” Way to Handle Leadership Development
You want to develop the leaders at your company, but you have a limited training budget. Is it possible? One nonprofit, Open Arms Care Corporation in Chattanooga, developed a process that allows the organization to grow its leaders while keeping training expenses low....
Behaviors That Derail Leadership Success, and Why Your Habits May Be Holding You Back
We all know leaders who have failed, and the media is, of course, full of examples. But can leaders prevent their own failure? Are there certain behaviors that leaders can watch out for, or change, if they want to reach their highest potential? According to research,...
Preparing for the 360° Assessment
You may have some familiarity with 360° assessments if you have been working in a leadership position; their use has skyrocketed over the past decade, and with good reason. They are an extremely well-rounded and useful tool for finding ways to move ahead in your...
3 Steps for Getting Your Employees Involved in the Onboarding Process
When a new employee joins your company, they aren’t just joining you and the human resources department; they are joining a group of individuals they will be spending half their weekday waking hours with for the next several years. As such, it isn’t only important for...