Level Up Leadership
This past year has been an extremely challenging year for many companies, and unfortunately, some of those challenges may stick around into the new year. With that said, and as we look forward to 2021, it’s important that leaders start to form a plan that can help tackle some of these challenges, and ultimately, will…
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Sometimes getting the higher-ups on board with an investment in leadership training can be a tough sell, because stakeholders like cold, hard numbers, and it’s hard to put an exact value on company training initiatives. The return on investment of such programs is often hard to quantify specifically. Here’s what we do know: countless studies…
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Unless you started your own business in high school, you probably didn’t begin your career as a leader. You started as a team member, and through your dedication and skill, you rose through the ranks to the leadership role that you have today. Along the way, you certainly gleaned things from the leaders that you…
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Any parent with more than one child will tell you parenting strategies that work wonders with one child might totally flop with another. All people are different, and a parent or teacher or coach or leader can’t expect to treat everyone the same way and get the same results. People simply don’t work that way.…
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We’ve all had bosses who are, to put it lightly, less than motivating to work for. Bosses who cut out at noon every Friday but expect you to be on call over the weekend. Bosses who demand that you go the extra mile but can’t be bothered to proofread their own emails. Bosses who don’t…
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The leaders in your organization have probably had a certain way of doing things for quite some time. They (and perhaps you) are set in their ways, which you’ve always seen as fine, because the work gets done. But leadership is a muscle that requires stretching and training. If you simply accept your leadership practices…
read moreOne of the most common mistakes business owners make is assuming that a great worker will make a great leader. All too often, it feels only natural that a person who is the best employee amongst their peer group should be promoted to a leadership position, but super workers don’t always make the best supervisors.…
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