Productive Leaders
5 Ways Future Workers Will Be Different from Today The way you lead your employees and how they go about fulfilling their job obligations continues to rapidly evolve. What will future workforces need to be most effective? By 2025, Millennials will comprise 75% of the...
Tips for Leading Effective Employee Onboarding in 2018 Hiring a new employee at your company is an exciting experience, both for you and the employee. The hiring process includes recruiting, interviewing, and a lot of time invested, by both the organization and the...
Avoid Burnout in 2018! Stress. Deadlines. Meetings. Client issues. Burnout. Busy professionals may experience increased levels of stress-induced cortisol, poor sleeping habits, mood swings, and other health manifestations from today’s workplace demands. One study on...
Can Leadership Overcome Our Brain’s Patterns? We all make assumptions. This aspect of human nature that has helped our ancestors stay alive during the primitive years and beyond. Assumptions allow us to predict future behaviors and patterns based on what we’ve...
Proper Estate Planning is a Great Holiday Gift Properly planning for your estate is one of the best gifts you can give to your family. What you do now affects their quality of life if you get sick, injured, or die. Few people like to think about a time when they are...
Don't Hurt Your Business with Faulty Assumptions Assumptions — preconceived notions, taken as fact without proof — are a surefire way to derail both communication and productivity. Assumptions — these mental shortcuts — are often incorrect, and they could be costing...
When Leadership Demotivates Employees (This is a part 2 of this series) I was part of an organization that loved conducting employee surveys. As an economist and leadership author, I love data that yields results. However, surveys need to be properly conducted, or...
Are You Building Authentic Trust at Work? “Fake it until you make it” is often used to build confidence or to change behaviors in the moment, such as “smile until you feel like smiling.” But this is poor advice for leaders who are trying to build trust with their...
The Leadership Lessons From Failures I get knocked down. But I get up again. You are never gonna keep me down. – Chumbawamba Many leaders fail. It is what you do after a failure that matters. There are many examples of failed leadership, failed projects, and failed...
April Peterson