Year: 2023

Design a Stakeholder Strategy

The best strategies benefit all your stakeholders—including customers, workers, suppliers, communities, and investors. As a senior leader, how can you design a strategy that balances these competing priorities? It starts

How to Normalize Employee Turnover

Turnover isn’t inherently a bad thing. As a manager, how can you shift your team’s culture to treat healthy employee attrition as a normal fact of organizational life, rather than

Keep These Negotiation Tactics Top of Mind

As a leader, you need to be fluent in negotiation—even if you’re not currently sitting in the C-suite. Whether you’re negotiating the terms of a project, your next salary, or

Make Peace with a Difficult Colleague

Think about your most annoying colleague—the one who does that thing that just irks you. Now consider the possibility that they might never change. How can you make peace with

Lead with Compassion

Being a compassionate leader isn’t just a nice thing to do—it’s a powerful lever of employee satisfaction, productivity, and retention, especially in challenging times. Here are some ways to practice

Empower Your Team to Solve Problems Without You

Being a great manager isn’t only about solving problems for your team—it’s also about equipping them to solve problems without you. Here’s how to support your team, delegate more effectively,

Are You Doubting Your Leadership?

When you believe you’re falling short as a leader—and others are sharing feedback in line with that self-perception—it can feel overwhelming and demoralizing. But don’t fret; doubt and failure are

Set Boundaries with a Workaholic Colleague

Working with a workaholic colleague can be…challenging. If they’re putting in overtime, you might feel compelled to do the same, and their ultra-responsiveness can create more work and stress for

Help Your Team Focus

Recent research found that around 60% of employees rarely or never do even an hour or two of deep, focused work each day without being interrupted by a distraction. As

Is Your Team Collaborating Too Much?

If your employees are drowning in excessive or misaligned goals set by too many external stakeholders with competing demands, they’re at risk of losing sight of their highest priorities. As