Steve Jobs stepped onto a San Francisco stage and proclaimed, "Every once in a while, a revolutionary product comes along that changes everything." By the time he left that stage, he had persuaded millions of people to queue up in [...]
Mentoring is a significant and meaningful professional developmental relationship between two people. It can take different forms such as workplace mentoring, youth mentoring, or academic mentoring as well as taking on different shapes such as reverse mentoring or peer mentoring. [...]
An interesting study with 17 executives sought to discover how these leaders engaged their staff and inspired employees to go above and beyond in their work (Yanchus, Brower, & Osatuke, 2020). The interviews yielded specific, actionable best practices. Most salient [...]
We don't work together anymore--at least not all in the same place at the same time. Dispersed teams have become a new normal and leaders need to adjust. Intersecting social identity theory and leadership research, a study highlighted the importance of inspirational leaders who, [...]
A recently published study identified the best practices used by 10 successful information technology (IT) project managers to lead effective virtual IT project teams (Cripe & Burleigh, 2022). The project managers had more than ten years of experience managing virtual [...]
Life requires all of us to make tough calls from time to time. These are the decisions we don't want to make, often because they hold dire consequences for both ourselves and others. But leaders are often called upon and [...]
Talent retention is a top priority for business leaders in 2022 (Steen, 2022). Ensuring that an organization has a satisfied, engaged, and productive workforce is a concern that extends to all organizations worldwide. A recent study reviewed 47 research publications [...]
With a rollercoaster economy and political turmoil at every turn, these are indeed difficult and uncertain times. The future is an unsettling unknown. Interestingly, research finds that in times like these people become either pessimistic or optimistic (Rigotti, et al., [...]
Leaders who cannot delegate are not long in their leadership roles. The inability to delegate tasks and responsibilities leads to team members perceiving the leader as lacking trust, respect, and appreciation for them when it comes to completing important tasks. [...]
Regardless of how nurturing a workplace culture may be or how great your relationships with whom you work, inevitably there will be a need for a difficult conversation. These are conversations holding high stakes, regarding sensitive issues, with uncertain outcomes, [...]
Leadership is consistently identified as one of the strongest predictors of organizational success. One effective strategy for ensuring the future success of an organization is, therefore, to develop its' next generation of leaders. It is particularly important that leaders be [...]
Recruiting and retaining talent in today's business climate is a tremendous challenge for organizations. To accomplish this mission, leadership skills are essential. Developing any skill that increases a leader's performance benefits all concerned. A recently published study provides valuable [...]
In any successful organization, certain decisions are best made by teams--especially when those teams are responsible for and must act on those decisions. Research finds that 75% of the time a team makes a superior decision over an individual leader [...]
Great leaders go beyond simple results-oriented outcomes. Great leaders have an enormous impact on their followers and organizations that transcends a singular result. They are a major force in realizing both fresh visions and significant change. When a leader's vision [...]
Recent research finds that a leader's sense of humor can significantly increase employees' sense of belonging while decreasing their feelings of workplace loneliness; both of which increase team performance (Yang, & Wen, 2021). It does, however, need to be the [...]