Who gets recognized in your organization? Just the superstars – the top 10 percent high performers? Or do you acknowledge those who grind out the work day … Read more
The Hands-Off Manager: When You Let Go, You Actually Take Control
By Steve Chandler and Duane Black In everyone’s life at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human … Read more
The Keys to Building and Sustaining a Culture of Trust
If there is one thing movies about the workplace tell us is that Hollywood believes bosses come in all shapes and sizes, and they are all pretty terrible … Read more
5 Things That HR Can — and Should — Learn From the CFO
There was a lot of great conversation happening at February’s inaugural TLNT Transform conference in Austin, Texas. But there was one conversation, … Read more
The Hands-Off Manager: How Questions Can Lead to Success
By Steve Chandler and Duane Black Judge others by their questions rather than by their answers. —Voltaire The hands-off manager doesn’t spend a lot of time … Read more
Transparency: Does Your Company “Talk the Talk and Walk the Walk?”
“I am sorry, but we have already identified someone for that role.” The next question was, “how could that be, the job was just posted on the … Read more
Managing Emotions: What We Can Learn From Indy’s Peyton Manning Decision
The Indianapolis Colts recent decision to let quarterback Peyton Manning go has been described as a good business decision in which emotion did not come … Read more
6 Common Hiring Mistakes – And How You Can Avoid Them
I’ve recently been writing about business leadership and strategy, and I began thinking about something one of my mentors taught me about being an … Read more
How to Stop Killing Your Employees’ Desire (and Ability) to Work
Are you killing your employees’ desire to work? I don’t mean, are you giving them too much work? Often, that’s a challenge employees can rise to. No, I … Read more
Survey: Successful Companies Have an Employee-Focused Culture
It’s not often that you get a worldwide look at how organizations assess and handle talent, but the new Global Assessment Trends Report from SHL (a … Read more