Here’s how you can support neighbors and essential workers during the COVID-19 crisis As business leaders during the pandemic, you may be trying to solve expensive, time consuming challenges to …
Heroes Work Here: Creating Acts of Appreciation at Work
While many of America’s white-collar workforce has the luxury of working from their couches right now, the nation’s “essential workers” are still on the job, stocking shelves at grocery stores, …
Leading High Performing Teams: 5 Evidence-Based Insights
What does science have to say leading high performing teams? In a recent executive education webinar from the Center for Values-Driven Leadership, we shared 5 insights drawn from contemporary research. …
Why is Everyone Talking about Feedback?
There’s a distinct difference between criticism and feedback. One inspires, the other deflates. Learn the difference, so you can grow in your ability to give feedback that gets heard.
Building Better Businesses & Leaders Through Procurement: One Executive’s Journey
As a college senior, Cheryl Harris says she didn’t have her eye on a career in procurement. “I knew how to spell procurement,” jokes Harris. Decades later, Harris, the Senior …
Hospital CEO Dave Schreiner on How Values-Driven Leadership Impacts Rural Healthcare
Rural healthcare is facing a crisis. Since 2010, 107 U.S. hospitals have closed, most of them rural, due to aging populations and rising costs. Yet in many cases, no other …
Three Steps for Giving Feedback that Works: Find it, Flip it, Elevate it
“The last 10 percent is always the hardest part,” a direct report once said as he invited me to share what I was truly thinking about his performance. Despite the …
Avoid Risk, Make Innovation Possible: Psychological Safety As the Path To High-Performance
This article was originally published at Forbes.com. Is it safe to bring your ideas to work? To bring your whole self? Lack of psychological safety is a barrier to creating …
Are You An Architect of Culture? Here are Your 10 Building Blocks
They say everyone knows what water is except a fish. Most people are like that about culture: they recognize it when they see it but find it hard to define …