How do your employees work best? Well, it requires leadership empathy to understand your team best and help them thrive. Today's guest post addresses the hot question right now of going hybrid or not is the recipe for future performance success. Guest Blogger Stephanie Hendricks is a full time freelance contributor to many leading small business growth publications. Including SmallBizTrends, … [Read more...]
What Causes Quiet Quitting?
Your employees don't have a commitment problem. You have a leadership and culture problem. Quiet quitting, in case you haven't heard, means doing exactly what you're required to do at your job and not a bit more. It's really just a trending term for disengagement. Folks don't outright quit but they fail to do more than the bare minimum, and they may or may not be quietly looking for a new … [Read more...]
Let’s Talk About A Better Workplace Culture
Seth Godin's daily posts range from the inspirational to the tactical. The mundane to the philosophical. So when a post punches me in the gut, in the best possible way, it gets me thinking. Which is his goal: Stop existing. Start thinking. Disrupt the status quo. Recently, he wrote a post called But First, We Need to Talk About. The gist is that what we are willing to talk about gets attention, … [Read more...]
Let’s Redefine “Kind” in Business
Conscious capitalism. Compassionate workplace. Empathetic leadership. Kindness at work. What do all of these terms even mean? Many times throughout my career, I’ve dealt with dysfunctional workplace cultures, leaders who were at best disinterested and at worst emotionally abusive. Co-workers that yelled at me. Like, screaming so nonsensically, I had to hang up on them. We talk about this … [Read more...]
3 Ways to Practice Empathy at Work
At a book signing, the panel moderator told me that she recommended my book, The Empathy Edge, to her friend - let’s call her Jennifer. Jennifer was in a really bad work situation with what she deemed an out of touch manager. Her boss treated her badly, didn’t listen to her ideas and generally acted like he was too busy to be there for his team. Jennifer was pretty fed up by this point, and … [Read more...]
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