by admin | Dec 15, 2016 | Employee Engagement, Future of Work, Management Tips, Managing Difficult Employees
Maritza manages a team of fifteen, five of which work from home. Recently, she’s noticed some of her in-office team showing signs of unhappiness and disengagement. Terry, an employee of eight years, has stopped contributing to group discussions almost entirely. Jamal...
by admin | Dec 18, 2014 | Diversity in Workforce, Employee Engagement, Executive Coaching, Future of Work, Leadership Development, Management Tips, Managing Difficult Employees
Looking back on 2014, it’s clear that the US workforce is drastically changing. The freelance workforce is at 53 million strong and rising, women are increasingly leaving the corporate world to start their own businesses (which are growing 50% faster than new...
by admin | Oct 16, 2014 | Management Tips, Managing Difficult Employees
The workforce landscape is changing drastically. New generations are stepping in to replace the droves of retiring Baby Boomers, women are high-tailing it out of the corporate world to start their own businesses, the demographic makeup of the workforce is shifting the...
by admin | Feb 6, 2014 | Leadership Development, Management Tips
Let’s put your conflict handling-skills to the test! In this three-part series on conflict management, I introduced the Thomas-Kilman Conflict Mode Instrument (TKI), a fantastic tool to guide leaders when facing conflict. With the introduction of TKI came an...
by admin | Jan 23, 2014 | Leadership Development, Management Tips
Conflict happens, whether we want it to or not. Most of us have a strong, visceral reaction to conflict, including (but not limited to) fear, avoidance, excitement and/or dread. However, when you boil it down, conflict is just when one person’s wishes and desires are...
