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Many Employees Have a Mid-Career Crisis. Here’s How Employers Can Help

Harvard Business Review

Entry-level employees learning the ropes garner more than their share of managers’ time, and those transitioning toward retirement pull executives’ focus by necessity as they work to develop succession plans. Develop an internal mission for those needing a deeper sense of purpose.

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Why Doctors Need Leadership Training

Harvard Business Review

Although medical trainees spend years learning about physiology, anatomy, and biochemistry, there are few formal avenues through which trainees learn fundamental leadership skills, such as how to lead a team, how to confront problem employees, how to coach and develop others, and how to resolve conflict.