I once had a boss who said, “Feedback is the breakfast of champions. You need it every day to grow and strengthen your leadership.” Many of my clients are anticipating…

Want to grow the confidence level of your team? Don’t encourage them to take a fake-it-till-you-make-it approach. Instead, pay attention to what people genuinely do well. It will foster self-confidence…

Leaders often rise based on their ability to make quick judgments. But when it comes to developing your people, the same quick judgment can be a liability. Embracing your curiosity…

Leadership works best when feedback is not treated as a balancing act between equal parts criticism and praise. Rather, it’s about ensuring the scales are heavily tilted toward what employees…

When people feel valued, respected and supported for their differences and where they are most unique, they have a stronger sense of belonging—and belonging is good for business. According to…

Low engagement costs the global economy $8.8 trillion, according to Gallup’s 2023 State of the Global Workplace report. It also leads to lost customers and lost profits. But their data…

Connecting your employees to a purpose bigger than themselves impacts engagement and performance. It even positively affects their psychological and physical health. But how do leaders make their organization’s purpose…

Anthropologists say we are descendants of the most cooperative humans living across time. In the past, people who didn’t work together didn’t just have a bad day at the office…

Every employee (even you) has a “dopamine habit” – and managers shouldn’t want it any other way. The chemical makes healthy employees feel good when they get praise and is…

The better a manager can help team members recognize and use their innate talents, the more effective they will be. I like to pose a couple of questions, “So what…