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How to Survive Being a Layoff Survivor

Lead Change Blog

If some employees weren’t pulling their weight, why didn’t management do something about them already? As I transitioned into HR and befriended an employee assistance counselor, we started running workshops to support those who survived job cuts. We took hundreds of people through the workshop. The rollercoaster starts.

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Leadership Training For Executives

Experience to Lead

To manage these challenges, executives are called on to adopt a long-term perspective on organizational strategy while staying in tune with the present-day needs of clients, customers and team members. Executive leadership programs are typically structured as a series of workshops, seminars, and experiential sessions led by industry experts.

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Blocks to Creativity and Innovation. Tools to Release Creativity and Innovation

Mike Cardus

Innovation is a repeatable system-that-drives behavior in people, that are goal driven (by a Manager, themselves, or a customer), to fix an existing problem OR to fix an hypothesized future problem. These problems can be real you have to figure out a way to keep your pencil sharp or manufactured this is your iPad and Apple examples.

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How to Lead Like a Pig

Next Level Blog

In a truly innovative move, the new management team rewrote the employee handbook giving the green light to profanity and dirty jokes “because a loose, fun, nonlinear atmosphere is important to the creative process. The example from the Trib is extreme in that it’s rare for management to codify bad behavior as official company policy. 

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A New Year: A New Book of Blank Pages

The Practical Leader

I used to love the sharp, fresh smell of ink and paper as I opened a new book and heard the creak of the spine cracking. Our workshop was at the beautiful Fairmont Resort in the picturesque Blue Mountains just west of Sydney. Books don’t seem to smell that way anymore.

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Introducing 100 Coaches: Pay It Forward Champions

Marshall Goldsmith

Thinkers50 – World’s Most Influential Management Thinkers. Called ‘The Academy Awards of Leadership’ by the Economist, Thinkers50 is the world’s most reliable resource for identifying, ranking and sharing the leading management ideas of our age. World authority on project management. Co-author: Predictable Magic.

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45 Career Advice Experts Offer Career Success Secrets

Miles Anthony Smith

What is the number #1 characteristic of an employee/contract worker that hiring managers look for when hiring? What is the number #1 characteristic of an employee/contract worker that hiring managers look for when hiring? The #1 characteristic that I believe hiring managers seek in a candidate is flexibility. Initiative.

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