Top Trends In Leadership Development For 2015
Guest Post by Alison Brattle Many companies spend a significant chunk of their training budget on executive-level training, and it’s usually money well spent. In 2014, the human side of leadership and business featured prominently in general and sales training. Many companies began to develop a more democratic style of leadership, with huge potential for…
5 Critical Practices for Emerging Leaders
Guest Post by Sheri Nasim Leadership doesn’t happen overnight. It takes time to develop the skills, experience, and trust necessary to be tapped for a leadership role. The skills and experience will come as you learn the ropes of the business, but you won’t find trust-building in the Employee Handbook or an Operations Manual. Whether…
What Drives Employee Engagement?
Guest Post by Doug Brown With the overwhelming evidence indicating employee engagement is critical to business success, why is it that overall engagement continues to be such a challenge for many businesses and industries? One would think that organizations would have employee engagement on the top of their agendas with considerable budgets and strategies in…
Entrepreneurs in the Information Age
Guest Post by David J. Greer People often ask me how will the Internet change the world in the next 50 years. As someone who created one of the earliest web sites in the world, my response is that in the fifteen years since I created that web site we have seen far less than…
The Two Best Questions Millennials Can Ask Older Leaders
What questions should Millennials ask older leaders to find common ground? Answers to these two key questions will provide much leadership insight.
The Growing Roles of Millennials in the Workforce
Guest Post by Marwa Hijazi Data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) holds that Millennials – the generation born from 1981 through 1997 – will become the largest generation in the U.S. workforce by 2015. As they welcome the new wave of employees, businesses are scrambling to determine how Millennials’ ideas, values and personalities will…
5 Things I’d Tell My 20-Something Self, 10 Years Later
At the risk of sounding like a broken record, I can’t believe how much I’ve changed since turning thirty nearly two years ago. It probably sounds absurd; how much can one really change that quickly? But I swear it, I’ve somehow managed to figure out the many problems I struggled with over and over for…
The Uncomfortable Truths about Generational Culture
The IBM Institute for Business Value conducted a multigenerational study and issued a report entitled “Myths, Exaggerations, and Uncomfortable Truths: The Real Story behind Millennials in the Workplace.” This is a well-done, insightful report, highlighting a key fact – there is a thin difference between generations in what we want from leaders and the organizational…
Why Heart Matters More Than Passion
Why heart matters more than passion? Heart is about place. Passion is about pursuit. Get the place right and passion will have a place to flourish.
4 Tips for Young Leaders
Guest Post by Aaron Armour I walked through the doors as a new manager with confidence, excitement and a notebook full of ideas. I expected some challenges, of course, but I knew the team would rally and fight through anything. I knew the business was underperforming, customer traffic was declining and employee turnover was high….
How to Refresh Your Leadership Practices
Take a deep breath. Refreshed. Pop in a mint. Refreshed. Snooze for 10 minutes. Refreshed. Short activities can jolt us awake again, leaving us with a sense of being refreshed. Through the years, Thin Difference has been refreshed. Last week, we modernized the look and simplified the navigation. The reality is Thin Difference has been…
Are You Still Listening? A Leadership Lesson from Pandora
Guest Post by Sheri Nasim I concentrate better with music playing in the background. I especially enjoy dropping in the name of a song or artist on Pandora Radio and letting it find music with interesting similarities. Pandora happily plays whatever I’m in the mood for while I work away, until . . . I…