Leadership Insights

Diversity and Inclusion in the Workplace

As an HR consulting firm supporting organizations and teams, we are constantly looking for ways to help businesses succeed. One of the most important trends we have observed as a source of success is diversity and inclusion. Diversity and inclusion are about more...

Diversity and Inclusion

A Checklist for Leaders Managing Gen Z Members

As the workforce evolves, leaders must adapt their management style to meet the needs of different generations. With the emergence of Gen Z in the workforce, leaders need to understand their values and priorities to effectively manage them. This checklist outlines...

Checklist for Managing Gen Z Team Members - Embrace Technology, Offer Flexibility, Provide Feedback, Promote Social Responsibility, and Offer Mentorship and Coaching. Effective management of Gen Z team members requires an understanding of their values and priorities. This checklist outlines key considerations and conversation starters for leaders to manage and engage Gen Z team members, and create a positive and productive workplace culture.

Effective Meeting Tips: Organization, Productivity, Results

Picture this: you're sitting in a meeting that seems to drag on forever. The agenda is unclear, people are talking over each other, and nothing is getting accomplished. You check your watch and realize that an hour of your life has just been wasted. Sound familiar?...

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Love Languages for Improved Team Effectiveness

When it comes to building a successful team, effective communication is key. But what happens when team members have different communication styles and preferences? This is where the concept of "love languages" comes in. First introduced by author Gary Chapman in...

Love Languages for Improved Team Effectiveness

An Analysis of Martin Luther King Jr.’s Leadership Skills

Martin Luther King Jr. was a civil rights leader who played a key role in the American civil rights movement from the mid-1950s until his assassination in 1968. He is best known for his use of nonviolent civil disobedience and civil rights activism to achieve legal...

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Transversal Manager – Influencing People Beyond your Team

It is often easy to manage people who directly report to you, however, transversal manager requires unique management styles. It involves influencing and dealing with people who don’t work on your team but whose skills may be needed to complete a project. While...

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How to Ease Tensions with a Colleague

If you have tension with a colleague, you’re not alone. A study cites avoiding annoying coworkers as a leading reason Europeans don't want to return to the office after working from home. When tensions run high or you find yourself in strong disagreement, it can...

How to Ease Tensions With Colleagues

How to Assess Whether a Team Culture Is Right for You

A study by Flexjobs shows escaping a toxic work culture is one of the most common reasons why people quit. That’s why it is important to find the right team culture before accepting an offer, ensuring you continue doing your best work. So, how do you assess whether...

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How to Develop Your Network and Why It Is Key

Building your network is a must if you’re transitioning to a leadership role or looking to improve your leadership skills. At least 80% of professionals consider networking key to career success. The ability to network helps leaders enlist the right people, gain...

How to Develop Your Network and Why It Is Key

How to Improve Employee Retention

Every business should see its employees as an investment and should look for ways to improve employee retention. When companies have high employee turnover rates and constantly have to find new skilled professionals, it can wreak havoc on long-term goals and even...

Is Your Boss Right For You?

Is your boss right for you? How do you know when it’s time to leave? Unfortunately, questions like these are not uncommon in today’s workplace. At least half of Americans who quit their jobs did so to escape a bad manager and 68% of Europeans are seriously...

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Rudeness in the Remote Workplace Is on the Rise

Employees report higher levels of rudeness in the remote workplace, often in the form of "micro-rudeness". You’ve likely been on the receiving end of unpleasantries like “per my last email”, or maybe you’ve sent a few without even realizing it. Here’s what leaders...

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How Leaders Can Keep Remote Teams Motivated

According to the U.S. Department of Labor, 11.5 million workers quit their jobs in April, May, and June of 2021 — a record-breaking number of employees are also reporting lower rates of motivation at work. These statistics are alarming for leaders in the remote...

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Why both top performers and regular performers are important?

A successful organization has a diverse workforce comprising top performers and regular performers. A study by Radical Candor found that your employees operate in two modes: Superstar mode – Employees operating in this mode are the ones we traditionally call...

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The Power of Routines for Organization Success

Routines are the backbone of the day-to-day. On slow days they can keep us on track and facilitate progress. When times are busier, they can help us streamline tasks and reduce unnecessary stress. Since the pandemic has disrupted many of our routines and forced...

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Leverage the Power of Introverts on your Team

Introverts are often misunderstood. Being introverted doesn’t necessarily mean someone is shy or that they’re even unusual. It’s estimated that anywhere from a third to half of the population is introverted, and chances are, you have a few of them on your team. As...

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How to Maximize Team Performance for Business Success

Most leaders in the workplace know that diversity can be a source of strength, but when this talent is disconnected, it can be a weakness and negatively impact team performance. We are trained as individuals with unique specialties and strengths, so creating a...

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Building Camaraderie and Managing Virtual Teams

Managing Virtual Teams was a growing trend before the COVID-19 crisis but the transition to working from home has been recently accelerated (We observed a jump from 7% to 33% of employees in France who have switched to working from home in March 2020 only and this...

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How to be a confident leader and avoid the pitfalls

A confident leader in times of uncertainty is the glue that holds teams together when they face challenges. But many leaders confuse confidence for certainty, hence creating a restrictive work environment where new and innovative ideas don’t have any room. Here’s...

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Why Sustainable Leadership is the right way to go

Some decades ago, companies and organizations across the globe had one goal: high profits. However, in our millennial generation, businesses, companies, and most firms seem to be taking a new turn. In this new path, the organization's managers are not only...

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Discover the Power of Workplace Conflicts

Let's talk about workplace conflicts! Indeed, one dread of managers in every organization is conflicts among the employees. Conflicts can occur in any work environment, and if it is not addressed, it can lead to general poor performance. If it persists for long,...

The Power of Employee Recognition

Employee satisfaction is one factor that has a direct impact on the productivity of the team, customer experience, and the overall reputation of your company or organization. But did you know that money is not enough to motivate your staff? Although staff work for...

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Why you should Define Your Team Values now

As the governments of the nations across the globe continue to put measures to deal with the Covid-19 pandemic, organizations, companies, businesses, and firms are not spared from the adverse impacts of this disease. Now managers are managing remote teams, of which...

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The Challenges of Taking Over A New Virtual Team

We are perhaps living in one of the most uncertain and difficult times where most organizations have gone virtual and team members working at home. As the pandemic continues to rampage the lives of many, most firms are not ready to open their doors hence working...

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Personal and Team Resilience in Time of Uncertainty

We can all agree our resilience has been tested in the past months. It is okay not to be okay, but how fast do you bounce back to your normal after you had a relapse? How “elastic” are you? In a world where external and internal disappointments are bound to happen...

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Leverage Diversity to Drive Success

Building a great team for organizational success can be compared to making a great dish. You need a lot of different and disparate ingredients combined in specific quantities according to a precise formula or sequence to achieve the desired result. Your main...

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The Importance of Checking-In

As we are all experiencing intense stress and uncertainty about the future, it is essential that we take care of our mental health and the ones who are surrounding us. As a leader, your contribution is essential on this matter. Of course, your role as a captain is...

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How to ensure Remote Employment is a Success?

Having to Manage Remote Employment is becoming the new normal. There is a growing trend toward an increase in the number of organization’s employees who work from remote locations. Studies by Global Workplace Analytics show that the number of people working...

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The Importance of Co-creation in Business

Top Leaders have discovered that leading from the front may not always be the best way to do business.   For decades, top executives and business leaders have striven to lead from the front and train people to work in the way they, as individuals, considered best....

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The 8 Symptoms of A Dysfunctional Team

 "If you want to go fast, go alone; if you want to go far, go together." This Chinese proverb explains the reason why people work in groups. Working in a team multiplies our results beyond the sum of the individuals that make up the team. If one person makes ten...

Taking a Step Back to Boost Group Effectiveness and Achieve More

As a manager, group effectiveness is probably very high on your priorities. Because of this, you may be tempted to push your team to its limits. But recent thinking suggests that taking a step back from operational matters and day to day activities may be the way...

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Being A Female Leader – Challenge or Opportunity?

Being a female leader in the corporate world brings both challenges and opportunities. After more than five decades of efforts to bring women to a place of equality with men in matters of leadership, the landscape in most places is still heavily male dominated in...

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How to Build Engagement from Millennials

For some managers, having millennials on their team is a challenge. It is actually a great opportunity if you can leverage the great diversity it brings. When you look at the everyday workplace, it is hard to see that there is a constant transitioning from one...

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New Job New Team

Are you starting in a new job or are you taking over a new team? One of the most frequent subjects discussed in business meetings, publications and websites is change and how to manage it. The environment in which organizations operate is increasingly volatile; due...

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Equipping Your Team For Project Success

Let's talk about project management and how your team can make a difference. Whether your team is just starting out or well-established, a new project or initiative will present risks for failure or under-performance. This is because new projects have a tendency to...

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Celebrate at Work and Boost Employee Engagement

As a leader, are you willing to boost your employee engagement? Most of times when you and I hear other people's success stories, they are glamorized as unbelievable achievements by ordinary people in the face of great odds. The stories do not shine the light on...

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Boost Team Collaboration by Building Trust

Trust may be the most essential element to enable Team Collaboration & Team Building in order to determine the success of a team. A team may have highly competent members, but if it is plagued by distrust, it will under-perform a team of ordinary individuals....

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How to Deal with Workplace Conflict

Having to manage Workplace Conflict is the Number 1 CEO concern! Most people lump disagreement together with negative energy. But they are not the same. Disagreement is simply a difference in points of view. But the negative energy that sometimes attends...

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Improve your Personal Branding at Work

Selling yourself or Personal Branding is important in any relationship, personal or business. The truth is that if you do not promote yourself, there may be no one else to do it for you. And even if you managed to find others who are willing to fly your flag, they...

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Authentic Leadership In The Midst Of Conflict

The quest to Authentic Leadership seems to be a growing trend because of the challenges it represents. Everyone talks about leadership; it seems that every time you log into the internet, there is somebody telling you how to be a better leader. With this great...

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Accelerate your Business Growth NOW

Being Business growth, Growth Acceleration, Growth Mindset, Growth Strategy, growth is on every leaders mind. Understandably, all businesses want to grow. However, when a company begins to enter a phase of accelerated growth, how it did business in the past and how...

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How To be an Inspirational Leader

Leadership is not something that a person does; it is what they become. This articles tells you more about what Inspirational Leaders have in common

How To be an Inspirational Leader

Efficient Team Takeover

Managing a smooth Team Takeover is key when starting in a new role. Indeed, when a leader takes over a team or organization, they usually arrive with their own ideas of what that team or organization ought to be doing. They have preconceived thoughts of what they...

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Teamwork – Fostering The ‘We’ Mindset At Work

Great Teamwork within your team becomes a stronger competitive advantage than having the best people on your team. People, schools and workplaces in the United States exhibit a much higher degree of competitive behavior than is seen in most other countries,...

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Effective Workplace Conflict Management

Conflicts are a fact of life and workplace conflicts are not an exception. People will always disagree on something. Although we hate them, conflicts are often the most honest feedback that we get about any situation. They offer the greatest opportunities to find...

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Lead and Succeed In a Matrix Team

Organizational structure defines how a business allocates tasks, coordinates activities and supervises the efforts of its various teams. In a quest to get closer to its customers and become more responsive and innovative many businesses are dumping the...

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How to Build a Strong Team?

Team building, cohesion retention are key elements to build a strong team.  These are dominant topics in any gathering of all kinds of leaders around the globe. Finding the best people, getting them to work together and keeping them together afterward has never...

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Team Performance through Stakeholders Feedback

When measuring the performance of a team, the viewpoint from which that assessment is conducted matters. A team may carry out an assessment of its work itself, or it might be done by the organization or conducted externally by a customer. Depending on whether the...

How to Build Trust in your Team?

How can you build trust in your team? Although we never think about it, trust is the single ingredient that makes life livable. We can always go to bed, TRUSTING that the ground will still be beneath our feet when we awake. That our home will still be in the city...

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Supporting people through change management

Smooth Change Management is a critical skill to have for  a leader. “If it is not broken, do not fix it.” This axiom describes the human tendency to never question the effectiveness of our method as long as it delivers a reasonable amount of success. People, in...

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How to drive team commitment?

Business Leaders and Owners aspire for maximal team commitment. The feeling that employees lack a high level of emotional investment and personal commitment to their work is one of the most frustrating difficulties business owners can have. Every owner wants people...

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Team Alignment for a Transformation Project

This is especially true for teams that are multi-functional or virtual. The fact of its members being separated by professional differences and physical distance makes managing it twice as difficult. This can be complicated further, if a project has multiple...

Team Alignment

Does your Team has full Self-Awareness?

In this article, we will discuss team self-awareness. This is one of the most important but often overlooked aspects of team-building and team-productivity. We give lots of emphasis to building the team, equipping it and having it succeed at its raison d'être; all...

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How to build a High Performing Team?

High-performing teams are different from other kinds of teams in that the sum of members’ individual knowledge, skills and competencies come to bear significantly on the final output of the group. Unlike in other teams where the team’s performance does not exceed...

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Do not recruit someone like you!

Make sure you leverage collective intelligence when you recruit someone for your team. You, as successful business leader have had a successful career; you have the right set of competencies that allowed you to go that far and that high. One day, the moment comes...

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