To ensure the success of any company, it’s vital to lay the groundwork by creating a culture of kindness. Inclusiveness and kindness are virtues that go hand in hand, especially in the workplace. Making every one of your colleagues and employees feel that they have...
Creating an inclusive workplace for your employees is more important today than at any time in history. The world is changing around us and providing a safe space where people can enjoy the dignity of a job well done, no matter who they are or...
Leaders are experienced members of a team that decide to help others. I hear many people say, “All this starts at the top.” Sometimes this is true. Sometimes it is not. Sometimes it starts in the middle. Sometimes it is a manager, team leader, or...
Making the time to organize, plan, and direct yourself and/or others to accomplish tasks is essential to positive leadership. Creating a plan each day with details about what you intend to get done is leadership. You are leading yourself. You set yourself up to be...
It can be demonstrated that leadership is something practiced by every professional from the start of a career. Guiding others involves being guided yourself. You start your career as a professional. You have leaders and they lead you. You learn the important skill of being...
Motivation is simply defined as: the reason a person has for doing something. In the subject of leadership, motivation means giving people a reason to get things done. Effective leadership has the end result of getting something done. In fact, getting things done is often...
Whether you have interest in leadership or not, the purpose of this article is to help you understand good leadership and help you make an informed decision before you move into leadership, if you so choose. Leadership is not short or quick or easy. It...
This article was originally published on Medium. As a professional, you might not have had much choice about where you came from, the resources you had, or what happened to you. But the one thing you absolutely have control over is your attitude — and this...
We recently looked at working hard vs. hard work. Let’s explore the component parts of working hard. Work definition: activity involving mental or physical effort in order to achieve a result. Simply put, work means getting something done. Hard definition #1: putting a lot of energy into an...
As you may have noticed, things are a bit different. Some might even use words like “tough” “difficult” “hard.” Those would be accurate words to describe the world right now. What advice would you give to a company to get through this successfully — full of brilliant...