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How Flexible Leadership Benefits Organizations

Being too rigid when you're in a leadership role is going to cause you many problems. It is much better to be a flexible leader that can adapt to different situations. Take a look at some of the ways that flexible leadership can benefit organizations below. This will...

Tips for Giving Positive Feedback

Giving your employees feedback is incredibly important when you want them to grow into their roles. You need to be able to help guide them down the right path, but giving feedback isn't always easy. Some employees won't respond well to negative feedback, and you...

Mistakes All Leaders Need to Avoid

Everyone makes mistakes, including leaders. That’s just human nature, and the nature of leadership at that. Even the best and brightest of us are bound to overlook things from time to time. The key is to learn from those mistakes so they don’t happen repeatedly, and...

How Time Management Can Help You Achieve Your Goals

One of the biggest frustrations for managers and leaders in the workplace can be a failure to use one’s time properly. You have so many tasks to do, and never seem to have enough time in which to get them all done. Add to that the fact that we have a nasty tendency to...

The Benefits of Changing Your New Hire Training

One of the great truisms of the NFL is that the teams that draft well tend to do well. It is rare that you see a team built mostly of cast-offs and free agent signings go far. Success starts from the top-down and the bottom-up, with the executives drafting the right...

The Benefits of Hiring Veterans

Our veterans deserve all the respect in the world – and, frankly, more than they’re currently getting. These are the men and women who put their lives at risk in the service of our lives, our country, and the values we hold dear. These are the people who stand for our...

Three Tips for Creating an Inclusive Workplace

The past decade-plus has seen a boom in diversity across different sectors. There have been many tremendous success stories, such as Marvel’s record-smashing Black Panther proving what African-American audiences knew all along, that a major studio tentpole led by an...

How to Create a Business Vision

It takes a lot to convince someone to come to work for you every day. Working hours can be long, conditions can be hard, progress can be slow, and the results can be less than ideal. It can be all too easy to slip into a feeling of discouragement and ennui. When that...

How to Meaningfully Grow Your Team

There are few things more critical to any business than growth. Growth is endemic to and inseparable from business. The whole point of business is to grow, and while an unchecked urge towards expansion at all costs can lead to disastrous consequences, an urge towards...

How to Hire the Right People in Healthcare

Whatever your personal views on healthcare in America may be, we can all agree on at least two things: the system needs more help, and we need the right people in place to do it. Healthcare is one of the biggest and most important industries in America. With the Baby...