Millennials and Baby Boomers Can Work Together. Here’s How to Make It Happen
70 percent of adults, in all generations, want purpose from their work.
Tag: corporate culture
Want to Get the Most From Your Millennial Employees? Start Using ‘Leaderless Teams’
Understanding how to manage Millennials.
The Essential Leadership Trait That Will Make or Break Culture
How you show up as a leader impacts culture more than you may realize. How are you choosing to respond in moments large and small?
Why People Lose Motivation — and What Managers Can Do to Help
At some point, every leader has dealt with a person — or, worse, a group of people — who has lost motivation. It’s frustrating, isn’t it? As much as we’ve been there ourselves, sometimes it’s hard to sympathize with others who are disengaged from work and unproductive as a result. Sometimes, we view their unhappiness as a bug in their mental makeup — and, therefore, we think they should be able to suck it up and snap out of it.
How To Assess An Essential Leadership Capacity: Trusting Others And Inspiring Trust
by Prudy Gourguechon Republished from Forbes, February 25, 2018 Trust is a fundamental leadership capacity, and it works in two directions. It’s pretty obvious that a leader needs to be able to inspire trust and be worthy of that trust. It’s equally important that she has the capacity to trust others, a psychological strength has its foundations…
Ten Keys To Launching An Agile Transformation In A Large Firm
As Agile eats the world, many organizations are faced with the prospect of an Agile transformation. This is a major challenge—one that will involve deep change over many years. If the organization has been traditionally managed, it will include radical shifts in attitudes, values, mindsets, ways of thinking and ways of interacting with the world, in effect a change in organizational culture.
Six Personality Types Involved In Business Transformation Projects (And How To Manage Them)
In business transformation management, it is typical that people pick a change management model and try to push everything into that formula. That’s why 70% of change management projects fail and why we need to rethink our approach. But no matter what changes or breakthroughs are made to the old systems, keep in mind that one constant will always remain: the different personalities of those at the helm.
Sales And Marketing Alignment Often Fails For B2B Companies — Here’s How To Fix That
Aligning sales and marketing has become common practice as a business strategy, improving the dialogue between two separate departments of a business for improved results all around. But I often have clients approach me with the same problem: regardless of a seamless relationship between their sales and marketing strategies, they still find that there are not enough successful sales being generated from their leads.
5 Things About Your Brand Your Sales Team Must Sell If You Expect Anybody to Buy Your Product
Your salespeople are front-line brand ambassadors. Make sure they are sending the right message.
How To Build A Work Culture That Appeals To All Generations, From Millennials, To Gen Z And Beyond
“People picked on my generation. People picked on my fathers’ generation. People are picking on this generation, and I think it’s wrong,” says Scott McGohan, CEO at McGohan Brabender, a company that provides employee benefit consulting, compliance, and health risk management.
“We have to understand technology and communication paths that are going to be attractive [across generations], but to pretend that they’re going to think differently than a lot of us—I think it’s immature,” says Scott.
“ Stop trying to figure out generations. If you just care about people, you’ll be fine ,” he says. “When we just lead with our heart, in my opinion, we win every time.”