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Engaging the Next Generation in Business Development

If you have spent your career building a thriving family business, you may worry about what will happen to it when you retire. Many family business owners hope to hand the reins over to children, nieces and nephews, and other younger family members, but often younger...

The Fear Factor in Business

Fear is always a factor in business. Whether you are considering the way business owners prioritize and work toward growth, or how employees respond to management strategies, the fear factor is a necessary consideration for any entrepreneurial endeavor. Understanding...

What to Expect from a Fiduciary Advisor

Knowing what to expect from a fiduciary advisor and how to take full advantage of their services may be key to your company’s financial success.

Disengagement, Micromanagement and Agency in the Workplace

Here is what you should know about disengagement, micromanagement, and agency in the workplace, to get your team to check back into their work. 

Putting Honesty at the Center of Your Business

Putting honesty at the center of your business can be an important tool to building a strong collaborative working environment and customer communication.

Evaluating Your Processes for Fairness

Here are several questions you can ask in evaluating your processes for fairness to improve workplace morale, and make sure everyone’s voices are heard.

Embracing a Broader Definition of Diversity

Embracing a broader definition of diversity can attract the best talent with the widest perspectives, so you and your business can thrive. 

Creative Leadership Strategies for Encouraging Innovation

Here are some creative leadership strategies to encourage collaboration among creative teams.

What to Do About Secrets in the Workplace

When employees keep secrets in the workplace it could mean something is wrong with your company culture. Here is what to do about it.

Using Emotional Intelligence to Foster Acceptance of Diversity at Work

Leaders can use emotional intelligence to foster acceptance of diversity at work, and respond to conflict from cultural insensitivity or employee biases.

Emotional Intelligence – Can it be Taught?

Emotional Intelligence – Can it be Taught?

Emotional Intelligence defined: The ability to know one’s emotional state, manage it, read the emotion in others, and use this information to guide one’s thinking and actions. The author of the article reference below is an international authority in personality...

Do Your Employees Have Leadership Potential?

Do Your Employees Have Leadership Potential?

Effective future leaders within organizations are sometimes hard to assess at first glance. This article by Rick Lash, the director of the Leadership and Talent practice at Hay Group, highlights our view of the ingredients of effective leadership. Effective future...

The Value of Negative Thinking

The Value of Negative Thinking

Instead of blind optimism and always looking on the bright side, is there value in negative thinking? Can negative thinking even produce happiness and/or a sense of well-being? Instead of blind optimism and always looking on the bright side, is there value in negative...

Losing Our Silence

Losing Our Silence

Did you know that most of us are progressively having fewer and fewer moments when we are not in the midst of a kind of sensory bombardment? You know, sounds coming at you from everywhere, spaces more and more filled with advertisements, posters, and news. Did you...

Grumpy Employees – Can Grumpy be a Good Thing?

Grumpy Employees – Can Grumpy be a Good Thing?

Just because you may have some grumpy employees, does not necessarily mean that they are bad employees. Not everyone was born with a sunny disposition. There is a big difference between an employee with a bad attitude and a grumpy employee. Further, a grumpy or two in...