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Is your Leadership Development Developing Leaders?

Great Leadership By Dan

Today, I help (mostly) professional services firms — law, accounting, insurance, architecture, finance — attain growth, productivity, and profitability. In turn, we adapted our culture to meet their needs — casual dress codes, flextime, healthy lifestyle options, community involvement, challenging work, more defined advancement.

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Increase Workplace Flexibility and Boost Performance

Harvard Business Review

Goldin noted that scientific, medical and technical fields tend to have substitutable work environments, while law, business and finance tend not to. In fact, this is why most flextime arrangements mandate “core hours” for all employees. You can increase substitutability in three ways: Increased Teamwork.