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Why Core Values are Integral to Success

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When people leave one company for another, a major success or failure factor in their new assimilation is how well they match the existing culture. Bad fits rarely make it. Alignment of these core values is important for a number of reasons. From the company perspective Companies are nothing more than a collection of people […]

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Office Morale: Why It Is . . . The Way It Is

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Anticipation vs. Realization Why Workplace Attitudes Are What They Are Complex dynamics — such as company morale — do not necessarily require exceedingly complex explanations. In simple terms, organizational emotions are shaped by the relationship between two things, what people expect and what they experience. What people expect. What do workers — individually and collectively […]

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Situational Management: Do You Lead or Manage?

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The term “situational management” refers to the unexpected need for decision-making driven by surfacing circumstance. These “one-offs” are usually unpredictable; and because of that they force us to act or react to make decisions and take action based on a blend of unfamiliar data points. The four steps to effective situational management are: Seek and […]

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Why You Want to Become Fluent in these 5 Communication Topics

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A quick survey of the five most popular topics professional business speakers talk about illuminates what businesses prioritize when it comes to improving their organizations. Here are those five, which comprise 92 percent of paid engagements: Motivation & inspiration (35 percent). Leadership (17 percent). Communication (15 percent). Sales (14 percent). Change (11 percent). Everything else […]

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How to Juggle Your 11 Primary Emotions

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An interesting web article by Diane Raymond caught my eye and I thought her topic—human emotions—was worth sharing and building upon. All of us relentlessly experience a range of singular and blended emotions that vary by degree. We cycle in and out of these things all the time. Since they are part of daily living, […]

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Why Good Talent Leaves

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Talented people choose to leave organizations for a simple reason: Talent has options. The further you slide back along the excellence curve, the fewer options those lesser performers will have. Because of that, mediocrity tends to stay. But top performers live with a different realism. They will be courted by other companies, recruited by headhunters, […]

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Why Millennials Are the Most Stressed Out Generation

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A recent survey commissioned by the American Psychological Association measured the relative stress levels of four generations: Matures (Post-WWII workers, aged 67+) Boomers (48-to-66) Gen Xers (34-to-47) Millennials (Gen Y, ages 18-to-33) For clarity’s sake, we’ll define anxiety and stress this way: “The unpleasant emotional state consisting of psychological and physiological responses to anticipation of […]

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