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Navigating organizational change and fostering high-performing teams is a complex journey. Our blog is here to be your trusted guide. We offer insights, strategies, and best practices to help you overcome challenges, unlock your organization's potential, and achieve lasting success.
Whether you're a seasoned leader or just starting your management journey, you'll find valuable resources and actionable advice on topics such as:
Leadership Development
Generational Trends
Team Building and Collaboration
Change Management Strategies
Employee Engagement
Organizational Change
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Generations Schmenerations,
What’s the Difference?
People smarter than me have told me that the notion of generational differences is a made-up construct. Every one is different, they say - we are all unique. Indeed, among almost eight billion humans, there is not a matching set anywhere.
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Money and the Millennial Mind
Smart companies are incorporating financial education in the form of personal coaching on budgeting, tax prep, and other online tools to reduce stress and improve retention rates.
How to Stop Employee Turnover
Employees under 30 are more likely to leave your company, and some just won't show up one day and never come back — aka "ghosting.”
New Survey on Millennials Reveals Stress, Angst, Pessimism about… Everything
The crushing weight of student loans, ever-increasing rent and home prices, competition for “good” jobs and other factors have made them less optimistic. While they still think their dreams are achievable, the timeline has certainly gotten a bit longer.
The Lost Art of Soft Skills
If you want to keep your new hires and improve their soft skills, you need to invest in training.
Has Gen Z Lost Critical Thinking Skills?
Gen Z’s entering the professional workplaces are educated, book smart, eager, and capable – and yet it seems like they entirely lack a certain skillset: critical thinking.
The Best Managers Have This One Thing
There is a tiny, tiny percent of exceptional managers out there, but every one of them have the same thing in common.
5 Things That Millennials Will Make Disappear
Shazam. Presto. Now you see it, now you don’t. Millennials are the new Master Magicians that will make these 5 things disappear. Every generation changes things, but Millennials are changing everything.
Are You a Snowplow Parent? Answer These 5 Questions to Find Out
Helicopter parents, Jellyfish parents, and now Snowplow parents. Answer these 5 questions to figure out if you match Snowplow status.
Here Come the Second-Wavers, the Next Generation at Work
Step up leaders—now it’s time to for you understand their perspective and grow this next generation of workers.
Millennials Want Purpose
One of the most helpful things a manager can do for their Millennial team members is to emphasize the link between the Millennial’s job or tasks they do with the overall purpose of the company or organization.
Are Millennials the New Workaholics?
If you want your employees to be effective in their job, you need to make sure they’re engaged at work.
Millennials Loathe Conflict. Here are Three Ways to Help Them
Dealing with difficult situations and difficult people is a soft skill and soft skills can be taught.
The Millennial Leader: A Fresh Approach to Leadership in the New Year
Millennials are accused of killing banks, breakfast cereals, and bars of soap. As they take on leadership roles in companies, how can they keep the workplace humming and thriving in the new gig economy?
Take a Breath, Be Generous, Enjoy the Holidays
This is the time of year when we are consumed with consumerism. When boxes, packages and bags pile up. Stuff and more stuff. So much stuff that it creeps into the unconscious. How do we declutter, make space, feel like we are really making a difference, and give with gratitude?
Three Easy Ways Help Millennials Develop EQ
EQ (emotional quotient or emotional intelligence) is essentially the ability to show ‘soft’ skills, or ‘people’ skills in the workplace. It may be a better predictor of workplace success than IQ.
The Top 4 Reasons Millennials Quit Their Jobs
The reason for high Millennial turnover is simple: bad management. Listed here are four reasons high-potential Millennials say they are leaving their job and ways you as a manager (and coach) can counteract these.
3 Keys on How to Give Effective Criticism
Giving criticism is never easy, but when you manage Millennials (and especially Second-Wave Millennials), your criticism could either improve their performance or it can causes them to quit.
Second-Wave Millennials: Tapping the Potential of America’s Youth
We have a unique opportunity to guide our next generation of leaders who will inevitably face unprecedented challenges in the future. This book is a little window into the challenges and opportunities, played out in a workplace setting.
The End of Soft Skills
Life throws curve balls, and soft skills help you navigate them. In the workplace, it is said that hard skills get you hired, but soft skills get you fired.
Shining a Light on Feedback for Second-Wave Millennials
Feedback is important for Millennials and, like other parts of their Pyramid of Needs in the workplace, this is amplified for Second- Wave Millennials.