Management - Leadership

In his new book, Love + Work, Marcus Buckingham lays out how we can shape a more humane—and productive—future of work.

You may not like this fact, but your people need to be encouraged. They need to know that they're doing a good job. Encouraging and praising your team members is something we should all do. Especially in private. According to a recent study, employee recognition is crucial to your employees. Photo by Tim

Optimism and an eagerness to seize opportunities can be a far more useful source of executive inspiration than fear.

On this episode of The Insightful Leader, we learn why it’s not always as simple as handing out a performance bonus.

Apart from highlighting the need for HR to embrace emerging technologies, the report also suggests that leaders and managers are facing new pressures as employees continue to express interest in leaving their current jobs in the year to come. 

Dear Madeleine, I am an EVP of sales for a US-based fitness and weight loss website that is in hypergrowth. I started with the company about eight years ago and rose through the ranks, figuring things out as I went. About 18 months ago, my regional counterpart (I was East, he was West) quit suddenly…

Remember the important fact small wins are crucial to maximizing each staff member's potential, not just the big victories.

One in four U.S. employees say they have been recruited in the past three months, and the impact is lasting. See what leaders can do to retain talent.

Why would anyone want to be a career builder when they risk losing the people they develop? It’s a provocative question many leaders answer by not developing their people. But this strategy doesn’t work—because people who aren’t nurtured by their leaders end up leaving anyway. Career development is about the employee experience. It’s about the…

Employees often feel undervalued and overworked. Luckily, employee appreciation is easy! Here are 43 ideas you can use today.

In group settings, when I ask senior leaders whether they’ve ever attended or sponsored their team members to attend programs focused on creativity and idea generation, the silence is palpable. Alternatively, it’s hard to regain control of the discussion when I ask them whether they and their teams do creative work. They wax eloquently on how critical creativity is to daily problem solving and responding to our ever-changing external environment.

It’s time to change how we think about work.

Our collective future is unfolding right before us. It demands a new kind of leader. Consider life in this new era. An event happens on the other side of the world and its ripples nearly capsize our boats thousands of miles away. The pandemic is the latest example that we are more interconnected than we…