As a business leader, you want to stay on top of the latest trends in employee development and retention. The rapidly evolving human capital management (“HCM”) field is full of innovation and change, and there are some great ideas out there you can adapt to your own team’s development. But since...
At InPower Coaching, we look for workplace trends that impact both the individual and the organization. The InPower team has covered the story of the “fluid career” for individuals, and in this post, we explore the flip side of that workplace trend: what business leaders need to know about...
In the early 1980’s Robert Levering, a journalist, and his writing partner Milt Moskowitz set out on a three-year tour to travel the United States. They interviewed employees across the country to find out what made for a really good work environment. They asked two questions: “What makes this a...
InPower Coaching believes that successful organizations are made up of successful people. That’s why we focus on how emotional intelligence (“EI”), or “EQ” in individual employees creates a more productive and enjoyable work environment. There is an abundance of research that studies EQ. As a...
According to the Harvard Business Review article, “The Neuroscience of Trust” leaders intuitively understand that a lack of employee engagement is detrimental to achieving business objectives. But they’re often stymied for ways to address this problem. The author of the article, neuroeconomist...
Meetings are the one thing today’s workforce loves to hate. And now, with many office workers still working remotely in the pandemic, there’s an added layer to the meeting pain: “Zoom burnout.” Initially a fun way to stay connected to colleagues during the early weeks of the pandemic, workers are...
Can leaders be both self-interested and others-oriented? At first glance, it may seem that these attributes are at opposing ends of the same continuum. Research from global business graduate school INSEAD posits a different viewpoint, and one that has implications for HR and Organizational...
Leaders must inspire team members to achieve their personal and professional best. Pep talks and motivational speeches can only go so far, and if you lack one trait in particular, they may not help you at all. A team of researchers from the graduate business school INSEAD has uncovered a...
It’s a scene that’s probably familiar to many women who work in an office: a meeting convenes and a male in the group looks to a female and says, “Hey, Jane, how about if you take meeting notes today?” Worse yet, after the meeting adjourns, the majority of the meeting participants leave the room...
I like working with men, I really do. Of my clients and colleagues, the gender mix is evenly distributed. Over the years, I’ve become accustomed to being the only woman in a room full of businessmen and have never felt excluded or diminished. When I read the vigorous (and occasionally venomous)...
October 2024 Leadership Development Carnival
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The Psychology of Goal-Setting Success
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