What Baby Boomers Need to Know About Managing Younger Generations
While the Millennial generation is set to take over the workforce soon, there are still a lot of Baby Boomers in the workforce in managerial roles or vying for managerial roles.
Tag: leadership
Understanding the Gender Gap in L&D
Now more than ever before, organizations are taking a long hard look at their learning and development (L&D) programs to improve them and to remain competitive in the modern-day workplace.
Alignment and Consistency Are Key to Communicating CEOs’ Vision
Being elevated to the rank of CEO is the pinnacle in the careers of many people in the business world. But the prestige, authority, and compensation also come with a great deal of challenges and responsibilities.
Nurturing the Missing Leadership Skills of Doctors
Some experts argue that physicians generally lack the kinds of leadership skills that are essential for their success in complex healthcare organizations in which they, by virtue of their seniority, prestige, and expertise, are naturally looked to for leadership.
What Leadership Skills are Doctors Lacking?
Some experts argue that physicians are, in the aggregate, sorely lacking in leadership abilities. In a previous post, we reviewed why some experts feel this way, from the perspective of why physicians need to have solid leadership skills in the first place. In this post, we’ll look at what the key skills physicians need to be […]
3 Stats About D&I in the Workplace that You Must Know
In the wake of the #MeToo movement and Starbuck’s mandatory unconscious bias training day, organizations have become more and more concerned with and focused on offering more diverse and inclusive work places and inclusive work spaces.
Does Female Risk Aversion Impact Career Advancement?
One of the traits that sets successful entrepreneurs apart from others is their appetite for risk. While risk obviously opens one up to failures, it’s also often the case that those willing to take greater risks are more likely to receive greater rewards—including financial rewards.
The Lack of Leadership Training Among Physicians
While some people are often seen as “born leaders,” anyone can benefit from leadership training. Often the born leaders identified by others may be charismatic but may still lack some of the basic leadership traits needed to effectively lead and develop others in complex environments and over the long term. Leadership training is a basic part […]
The Disadvantages of Micromanagers and How to Retrain Them
Micromanagers feel they must constantly control their employees and the output of those employees. And they are constantly monitoring everything at work and consistently operate at high levels of stress, which, in turn, stresses out their subordinate employees and fractures workplace relationships.
Mitigating the Effects of Absenteeism
In a previous post, we discussed the findings of the second installment of Kronos’ Global Retail Absence survey, which analyzed responses from 800 retail managers across Australia, Canada, France, Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States.