We’ve seen a rash of companies require their employees to come back to the office — gradually by moving up the requirement one day at a time or all at once by setting a deadline for return. Why?

You’ve executed a significant layoff of employees. You announced it, HR and your staff executed it, and the targeted employees have left the building. Now what? Hopefully, everything gets back to normal ASAP. Ahhh . . . no.

We hear this a lot today - faster deadlines, impatient customers, and bosses who are never satisfied. If you let stress perpetuate and take over your life, it begins to impact your emotional well-being, physical health, and job performance.

Ever played a sport in school? You had a coach — what were they like?

Your leadership style is based upon myriad factors, but when distilled into a few essential elements, you’ll find three spheres: Presence, Interaction, and Contribution.

Many times in our lives, we all subtly undermine our success — when we unconsciously make bad choices, and our harmful behavior can impact nearly every part of our life. This self-sabotage can stop us from achieving significant plans and goals in our careers and life.

It’s incredible how many people think their leaders are functioning managers and how many managers who’re leaders in disguise.

If you're employed in a large organization, an essential component of your annual review is how much your manager likes/needs you.

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I watched a great analysis of Ex Machina on YouTube the other day, and the narrator spoke about how all character growth in a movie is based on three areas: weakness, need, and desire.

There are little fires everywhere in the office. And we get so busy putting out those fires we can spend a whole day — even a week — spinning around and around spraying from our fire extinguishers. In the end, it’s all about time management.

In today’s new world of work, many managers are struggling to find the best way to motivate, energize, and most of all KEEP their employees. And it’s getting harder every day.

Strategic moves create a leap in value for the company, its buyers, and its employees while unlocking new demand and making the competition irrelevant. They present analytical frameworks and tools to foster an organization's ability to systematically create and capture "blue oceans"—unexplored new market areas.

FADE is a quality performance model and a simple methodology for business improvement. I use it often with clients to help them grow their business or initiate a major change in their career.

It’s a great tool for brainstorming and encouraging team participation. It allows you as the leader, to help your team understand the root causal elements of a problem and (have them) identify areas of improvement. They solve their own issues!

It’s a great snapshot to get a better understanding of where each member of your team is and where they need to go. Our job is to do less formal quantification and more informal qualification with each team member — we’re looking at 9-10 employee teams, not 90-100.

The Pareto Principle states that for many outcomes, roughly 80% of consequences come from 20% of causes (the "vital few"). Other names for this principle are the 80/20 rule or the law of the vital few.

Bullies will come out of their caves to exploit this vulnerability and target your confidence.

Communication is a critical component of almost any day-to-day activity. Your audience might be a group of clients, a customer in your store, your team, or just the most significant prospect you’ll ever land.

We’ve all done it — staying too long at a company and then getting laid off.