After reading the above title, you may have thought: “I’m really interested in that, but I don’t know if it is possible to accelerate change, given that I am a new leader coming in at a time when so much change is already occurring.” This article will help you think about change in new ways so that you can lead positive change more readily, more quickly and more … [Read more...]
5 Steps To Unleash Innovation & Improve Work Culture: Investing In People Yields Exponential Rewards
This is a guest post by Maxine Attong author of Lead Your Team to Win: Achieve Optimal Performance By Providing A Safe Space For Employees. Getting your people to contribute more to your organization while simultaneously establishing stronger talent retention must cost a pretty penny, right? Not really. You don’t necessarily need to add expensive new ingredients to the stew. … [Read more...]
[Infographic]: Communication Framework for Change Agents
Change is inevitable, but far too often, leaders (remember the Reddit fiasco?) botch the process, failing to effectively communicate the changes they want employees to implement. That's why Workboard put together the following infographic to show us all the way change should occur within an organization. … [Read more...]
6 Questions to Ask for Successful Collaboration
The biggest problem with collaborative problem solving is the collaborative part. Many new leaders became leaders because they know how to get things done. That individual ability to solve problems, applied in a team environment, can become a weakness as the new leader pushes strongly for a solution that others resist. I have been that new leader who pushed too strongly … [Read more...]
Management Lessons Learned While Serving My Community
This is a guest post by Jaimy Ford, business writer and editor. This year my husband and I started volunteering for Habitat for Humanity. Our community is small, so most of the work involves fixing up homes for deserving people, rather than building new homes. The outcome is equally rewarding. For our first assignment, we spent two days working on the home of a man who … [Read more...]
Three Secrets to Group Decision Making
Every time I sit in a meeting, I’m utterly fascinated by the way groups make decisions. What happens before, during and after the meeting is different depending upon an organization’s culture. I’m reminded of this during the recent debt ceiling talks … well, maybe we shouldn’t even go there.Charlie Judy, author of HR Fishbowl, wrote an interesting post titled “Stop Playing … [Read more...]
Teamwork: This is What We Can Be
Back in the day, I used to run track for my high school’s girls 440 relay team. Even all these years later, I can close my eyes and feel it: legs churning, heart pounding, as I round the curve, ready to pass the baton. I’m reaching my right hand out to place the baton in my team mate’s waiting, outstretched palm. Most days, the hand-off went smoothly, but once in awhile we … [Read more...]
Standing Together
I am happy to share this post from Chery Gegelman today on the topic of collaboration. We can all accomplish more when we work together. Before we get to Chery's post, I want to let you know about a new opportunity for collaboration. Now available in the Bud to Boss Community, we have a forum: a place where you can find and form resourcing relationships, a place where you … [Read more...]
29 Things You Might Not Know about From Bud to Boss
We've been asking you to BUILD the BUZZ about From Bud to Boss. You might find it hard to do if you don't know a lot about us yet. So, with 29 days left until the launch, we're going to give you some information to be excited about — so you can share it with others as you BUILD the BUZZ. Kevin and Guy wrote the book based on their years of work consulting and … [Read more...]