3 ways to help you engage better with employees

3 ways to help you engage better with employees

What do accountability, conscientious recognition and extraordinary moments have in common? Alone or combined, these three unconventional actions can help you improve employee engagement at your organization—however you define engagement. Here’s how. 1.Build in...
How to use your voice to support humanity

How to use your voice to support humanity

To what extent do you and your leaders talk about social and political issues at work? If you’re concerned about the risks of talking about topical issues with key stakeholders inside and outside of your organization, please reconsider. “To be silent is to be...
How to improve your performance on the pronoun test

How to improve your performance on the pronoun test

Do you use the pronoun test? It’s a simple diagnostic tool for assessing organizational health, created by Robert Reich, the US Labor Secretary in the Clinton Administration and now a professor at the University of California, Berkeley. Here’s how to use the test:...
How to drive success with three little words

How to drive success with three little words

These three little, yet powerful, words–tight, loose, tight–can help you drive success in a number of different venues. For example, you can apply the principles of tight, loose, tight in strategy, agile, performance management conversations, presentation...
Want to be more inclusive? Communicate that way.

Want to be more inclusive? Communicate that way.

“If you’re not actively including people, chances are that you’re accidentally excluding them.” Dr. Heidi Grant, the Chief Science Officer  of the NeuroLeadership Institute and others stress this point almost every time we talk about inclusion, especially in...