Leadership Skill: How to Have Difficult Conversations
Do you avoid having tough conversations or delay in addressing performance issues on your staff? Do you find yourself beating around the bush or sugar-coating the…
Author: Kaylee Swanson
Posts by Kaylee Swanson
Preparing for Performance: 5 Ways to Improve Reviews and Results
The times are a changin’ and never more dramatically than in the employee performance review model. While the annual or semi-annual performance review is not yet a…
7 Steps to Improve Peer-to-Peer Accountability and Create High Performing Teams
Employees waste an average of $1,500 and an eight-hour workday for every crucial conversation they avoid. This according to research conducted by VitalSmarts1. Their…
6 Keys to Sustaining Effective Leadership Development Programs
You’ve just spent $1,000, $10,000, $100,000 – whatever amount – on a leadership development program to teach your managers and leaders to communicate…
6 Action Steps for Advancing Women in the Workplace
How can this be? A young boy and his father are on their way home from soccer practice when a distracted driver crosses the center line and hits them head-on. The father…
Emotional Intelligence: A Simple Tool to Help Increase Your EQ
We all have a trigger that can prompt us to act in a childish, unbecoming, rude or even hostile way for that matter. Feeling a loss of control over a situation, dealing…
The Intersection of Bias and Organizational Culture
Have you ever wondered what happens at the intersection of bias and culture? We just wrapped up a project with one of our clients and we found ourselves pondering over…
Top 12 Disruptors for HR Leadership in 2019
Periodically we gather a group of senior HR leaders, each one grappling with the impact of significant disruptors in their field, each one curious about ideas and…
Increase Employee Engagement with 3 Tips for Asking Better Questions
Isn’t this true for you? People perform best at work when they know their viewpoints, opinions, and contributions count — when they feel heard. When that happens, we…
Scaling Leadership
How would you answer the question, “Does leadership scale in my organization?” Specifically, does your leadership scale? What if certain behaviors…
Teams that Trailblaze – 5 Tips for Creating Collaborative Success
What happens at the intersection of diversity of thought and function when the collaborators see themselves as equally unique and focused on a shared…
What Makes a Great Leader: An Employee’s Perspective
I’ve been around the block a few times. The employment block that is. I’ve worked for small companies, large corporations, and mom-and-pop businesses. It…