With “The Great Resignation” and “The Great Discontent” affecting our organizations, retention is top-of-mind. 

 

Here is my gentle reminder: a little gratitude goes a long way in keeping employees happy and feeling valued.

If you manage your team, besides juggling absenteeism and flexible schedules, you also have to manage time-off requests and outages — which can see an uptick throughout the holiday season.

 

What happens when you become ill, take a vacation, or just need a day to attend to personal matters? Here are ten ways that you can still manage your team for these out-of-office days.

Fear is what often keeps people from leading. They fear being wrong, looking foolish, hurting the organization, being embarrassed and more. We’ve learned that the best way to conquer fears is by working our way through them.

 

The best way for people to learn leadership is experientially. To develop leadership capacity, give people experience leading a manageable project with light coaching from a more experienced leader.

Leadership can often be equal parts high confidence and self-esteem and worrying if you're doing it right while continually searching for answers.

 

Whether you're a leader in an organizational setting or have high influence in some other capacity, improving your leadership begins with a focus on improving what you're already good at.

After a difficult two years, marketers have more agility and more online savvy than ever before. Now for the scary part: So do customers, and they’re not slowing down. 

 

Marketers are faced with the challenge of creating a unified experience across every touchpoint.