3 Reasons Investing in Professional Development Drives Bottom Line Growth

If developing your employees isn’t at the top of your list of priorities, here’s why that needs to change.

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Stress in the office is contagious — here’s how to stop it from spreading

Everywhere we look, ominous signs reveal a mushrooming stress epidemic.
Predictably, this stress epidemic is driving up costs to business from lost productivity and innovation. But recent research provides insights on how to counter these trends.
Here are four leadership keys to easing and even reversing the rising costs of stress in the workplace.

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You Should Focus More on Improving This Skill

The Leadership Insiders network is an online community where the most thoughtful and influential people in business contribute answers to timely questions about careers and leadership. Today’s answer to the question, “How do you make a great first impression at work?” is written by Kathy Collins, chief marketing officer of H&R Block.

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5 Ways to Build a Team of Leaders (While Saving Yourself Some Work)

When putting together a group of individuals to work together on a project, it can seem easy to simply delegate all that you have to do to other people. What this doesn’t do, however, is set up anyone else on staff to lead after the leader’s departure.

The lack of initiative that comes with passivity may actually be crippling to an organization, especially one striving to grow in multiple, independent departments. Here, then, are 5 great ways to build a team of leaders from within, while encouraging your best employees to move up the ranks themselves.

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