by Jesse Lyn Stoner | Leadership |
Are you ready to be a first-time manager? Perhaps you’ve had some bad managers in the past, and you think this is your chance to do it right. Well, it IS your chance to do it right. But you can’t wing it. Research reveals that nearly 60 percent of first-time managers...
by Naphtali Hoff | Guest Post |
Guest post by Naphtali Hoff It’s no surprise that we use email and text for so many of our communications. It’s often faster, it’s neater, and it can easily be saved for future reference without paper sifting and clutter. Digital communication allows us to send and...
by Jesse Lyn Stoner | Leadership |
How do you recognize who’s a leader? Is it the person telling everyone what to do? Not necessarily. If he is being ignored, he is only talking to himself. Is it the person giving directions? Telling people where to go? Not necessarily. An usher in the theater,...
by Jesse Lyn Stoner | Culture and Workplace Environment, Leadership, Leading Change |
Marissa was frustrated. As district manager of a large retail chain, she was responsible for ten stores. Her district was doing well, meeting sales goals and store operations were generally smooth. The problem was that her boss, the regional manager, was a...
by Jesse Lyn Stoner | Career, High Performing Organizations, Leadership, Leading Change |
Career mobility is the new way of the future. According to a 2012 Future Workplace Study, 91% of millennials expect to stay in a job for less than three years, and Fast Company reported a study pointing toward 4-year careers. But are today’s organizations...
by Jesse Lyn Stoner | Author Interviews & Book Reviews, Podcasts |
Radical resiliency is about more than simply “bouncing back.” Eileen McDargh, internationally recognized keynote speaker, master facilitator, award-winning author, and founder of The Resiliency Group, shares her insights on resiliency and leadership....
by Jesse Lyn Stoner | Leadership |
Sometimes leaders make bad decisions or harm team morale by making autocratic decisions without involving others. And other times they waste their team’s time by unnecessarily involving them. How do you know when and how much to involve your team in...
by Jesse Lyn Stoner | Team Effectiveness, Vision and Strategy |
Has team performance been less than spectacular lately? Has team energy been waning? It might be time to rekindle your team vision. Sometimes teams assume that their vision will continue to guide them, and they can get caught in team drift without realizing it. Taking...
by Jesse Lyn Stoner | Thursday Thoughts |
Thursday Thoughts You can’t win a race by looking sideways. You are likely to stumble or get off track. You need to keep your eyes focused on your destination. If your vision is about beating the competition, what happens once you beat them? Where do you...
