Feedback is only effective when it is understood and when the person receiving feedback is receptive to it. Fortunately, this is something that you can establish within your culture. 

To get your team on board, a question you can ask them is, “If I were to notice something that I think would help y...

The average full-time employee in America spends roughly 50 to 70% of their waking hours each week at work or doing work-related activities. This includes preparing for meetings, practicing presentations, getting ready for work, commuting to the office, managing the mental load, and more. Because of...

To be clear as a leader is to be kind to your team, and clarity is largely attributed to how well you communicate. When you define your expectations, align the team around specific objectives, describe what success looks like, and assign roles based on an individual’s strengths, you eliminate wasted...

The success of an organization does not belong to a single individual. It belongs to every employee who has worked there and every customer who has done business with them. It belongs to the person with a dream and plan to make it happen. A successful organization recognizes the value of building st...

Developing your employees is an essential part of retaining them, though it is not the determining factor for what will make them stay. The organization’s culture can either make or break an employee’s experience there, which is why it is so important to build the kind of culture that people actuall...

The day you plant the seed is not the day you reap the harvest. Not only that, but you have to continue watering the seed in order for it to grow, and you may need to prune it at some point. The same applies to our own growth and development. One training, one book, or one inspirational speech can b...

We have to make hundreds of small decisions daily, and at times it can feel like we’re running on autopilot. We start acting without thinking, and the day passes by in a blur, but when we pause with purpose, we are able to clear our minds and regain focus. Taking a moment to think before making a de...

Performance reviews are significant because they are intended to both compliment and correct employee behaviors. A performance review is not just about pointing out what an employee is doing wrong, but to also document all of the things that they are doing right. It should reflect their performance ...

Bamboo is one of nature’s strongest materials. Even as a part of the grass family, its strength rivals, and at times outranks, many man-made materials, including mild steel. One of bamboo’s unique properties is its flexibility. Bamboo can bend in the wind, absorb heavy shockwaves, like from an earth...

The first step to becoming an effective leader is learning how to lead yourself. If you want people to trust your judgment, you need to be comfortable making quick decisions, you need to know how to regulate your emotions, and you need to understand what your values are and how they align with organ...

Before consistency becomes a habit, it’s a choice, and being consistent as a leader is one of the most important choices you can make in your career.

When a leader acts inconsistently, their employees do not know what to expect from them. This creates confusion and uncertainty, and it causes you to...

An effective leader not only produces quality work themselves, but they also accomplish work with and through others. They do not try to carry the workload by themselves, nor do they position themselves as a bottleneck, making employees come to them before taking action. Instead, they build up their...