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Human Capital Institute's Employee Engagement Conference

Michael Lee Stallard

The conference has scheduled a book signing for Fired Up or Burned Out. You can learn more about the employee engagement conference at this link. The summit is Asia’s largest leadership and HR conference with more than three thousand attendees. We recently committed to other public speaking engagements.

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The Conference Board: Employee Engagement = Connections

Michael Lee Stallard

After defining connection, we identify the “Connection Culture&# as the environment that produces emotional and rational connections that, as The Conference Board’s definition says “influence [people] to apply discretionary effort to [their] work.&# The Connection Culture meets universal human needs.

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What Holds Middle Managers Back from Leadership?

Women on Business

A couple of weeks ago, I had the opportunity to speak at Harvard Business School’s Dynamic Women in Business Conference. Our panel discussion was titled, Working in Heels: Women in the Workplace today, and the focus of the discussion was the internal barriers and external barriers that women hold women back from advancing their careers [.]

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Possibility Maximizer: The Conference Board

Sales Wolf Blog

 Today I would like to shine the spotlight on The Conference Board -  a leading source for business statistics and economic indicators. .  Today I would like to shine the spotlight on The Conference Board -  a leading source for business statistics and economic indicators.

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Customer service shouldn’t stop at middle management

Surviving Leadership

I’m in Vegas this week for the Ultimate Connections 2018 conference and it’s at a VERY big hotel conference center (the Wynn/Encore, if you must know). I like to wander around a little bit the night before to try and get the lay of the land, which is a good idea when things are spread out like they are here.

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Developing a Positive Culture

Lead Change Blog

Bright employees who claimed higher management torpedoed their ideas and tied their hands. Middle managers who expressed frustration that they couldn’t change anything about their teams, let alone the whole organization. What made you decide to write Developing a Positive Culture ?

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Highlights – 28 February

Chartered Management Institute

As found in CMI’s recent Better Management report , bad management has prompted almost 33% of UK workers to quit. Management isn’t all about star CEOs. Failing to invest in first-time managers could become your biggest financial mistake, writes contributor Katy Edwards in HR News. But let’s not dwell on the negative.