ETSPosts Tagged ‘leadership’
In 2022, We’ll Finally Get Back to Work
If you were holding your breath for all of 2021, worrying over every headline about employees leaving their jobs in droves and candidates demanding exorbitant salaries, let me tell you one thing: It’s time to breathe. I’m not predicting that the economy is going to be great, nor will I predict there is a recession on…
Read MoreKeeping Your Team From Feeling Burned Out
When someone launches into a breakup speech, they usually try to let their partner down easy with some variation of “It’s not you, it’s me.” Workers in the U.S. have been “breaking up” with their employers in record numbers in 2021. It is a wild and unsustainable statistic, but just in November, the U.S. Department…
Read MoreSpotting Your Team’s Next Leaders
First, and most importantly, we wish you all a very happy and healthy new year. As we dive into 2022, Leadership is perhaps even more important than ever for our organization and all of our clients we are supporting. Do you think you can pick out the person on your team who is ready to…
Read MoreForget Networking — Expand Your Network!
There’s a couple of things about networking I want to say right off the bat: 1. Nobody likes networking. 2. It doesn’t accomplish what you think it does anyway. There are hundreds of articles written every year about how to make the most of those mix-and-mingle events. But none of the advice — Stand near…
Read MoreThe Importance of Critical Thinking to Successful Leadership
There’s a crisis brewing in the business world, but almost nobody has been paying attention to it. More and more evidence points to a lack of critical thinking skills in today’s youngest aspiring leaders down to today’s college graduates. The Wall Street Journal reported that after four years of classes, students at some of the country’s…
Read MoreThe Pandemic Isn’t Going Away — Do I Still Reopen the Office?
One of the most frustrating parts about flying is when your plane has to circle the airport until you get permission to land. The worst part isn’t the delay — hey, it happens sometimes — but that you never know how long you’ll be stuck in a holding pattern. You get encouraging reports from the…
Read MoreHow to Attract Job Seekers Who Are Still ‘Just Looking’
Something unexpected happened last month. A record number of American workers — an eye-popping 4.3 million — quit their jobs. To put that in perspective, it’s almost three percent of the entire workforce across the country. What’s even more astounding is that this trend got named the “Great Resignation” when the number of people leaving their…
Read MoreHow a Boss Parts Ways with an Employee
Having to part ways with an employee because they don’t measure up is one of the toughest parts of any manager and leader’s job. But what’s worse is having to let someone go who is a real asset to the company. It happens all the time. Your organization merges two divisions, eliminates an entire department,…
Read MoreThe Recipe for a Return to Normal
A year ago, the headlines were dire. “New York City is Dead Forever,” read one of the most memorable ones. More recently, another one was slightly more hopeful: “New York Is Not Dead, But It Is On Life Support.” There were plenty of predictions that the city — and cities in general, for that matter…
Read MoreHow to Survive Employment’s ‘Perfect Storm’
When they look at the country’s economic situation, most experts are seeing only sunny skies. The commercial and industrial sectors are roaring back, the number of available jobs is hitting new records, jobless claims continue to fall, consumer demand is at all time highs — and the list goes on. But for a lot of…
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