5 Simple Ways to Show Your Team You Appreciate Them
One of my first real jobs after college was working as a temp in a college in New York City. I’d been assigned to a crazy busy office in the adult training department. The boss had me keying printed training manuals into our new Apple IIe computer, which required me to save my work onto floppy discs (anyone remember those?). But I got so busy, sometimes I forgot to save my work. One afternoon...
Respect. Performance, Partnership, Productivity
These days we’re seeing worrisome indicators that disrespect in the workplace is on the rise. Watch my recent talk at the Institute of Management Consultants annual conference in San Diego to uncover some of the ways that disrespect can impact productivity, partnership and performance. Learn some of the simple Respectful Leadership techniques that leaders can use to start the discussion on...
15 Big Challenges You’ll Face As A Modern CEO (And How To Solve Them)
Gregg Ward is one of 15 Forbes Coaches Council members chosen to contribute to their Expert Panel, where top business and career coaches from Forbes Coaches Council offer firsthand insights on leadership. Every leader faces trying times, both internally and externally. Those external factors are often the most difficult to contend with, since they’re outside of...
Gregg Ward Featured on SD Voyager
Today we’d like to introduce you to Gregg Ward. So, before we jump into specific questions about the business, why don’t you give us some details about you and your story. Back in the 1980’s, I was a starving actor in New York City and working as a temp for the College of Criminal Justice in the City University of New York. My boss, the Dean of Special Programs, wanted me to help him...
The Book District Podcast
3 big ideas discussed in this episode: The two most common leadership styles “Command & Control” and “Carrot & Stick” are unproductive, unsustainable and disrespectful. A much more effective and positive style is needed, “Respectful Leadership.” Respect is contagious: recent discoveries in neuroscience consistently support the concept that if we treat others with genuine respect, they...Improve Your Active Listening Skills With These 13 Strategies
Gregg Ward contributes to Forbes Coaches Council’s Expert Panel where top business and career coaches from Forbes Coaches Council offer firsthand insights on leadership. Leaders have an overwhelming number of responsibilities, often distracting or isolating them from others. Unfortunately, this sometimes impacts their ability to truly hear their team’s concerns and...
7 Practices That Will Make You A Respectful Leader
A lot has happened in the world since my book, The Respectful Leader was first published in 2016. At that time, employee surveys were giving us early warning signals of disrespectful behavior increasing in the workplace. Leading up to the U.S. presidential election, the political climate and the amount of incivility in public discourse continued to heat up. Shortly afterward, it appears that...
Gregg Ward accepted into Forbes Coaches Council
Forbes Coaches Council Is an Invitation-Only Community for Leading Business and Career Coaches San Diego, CA 9/21/2018 — Gregg Ward, Award Winning Best Selling Author & Leadership Facilitator has been accepted into the Forbes Coaches Council, an invitation-only community for leading business and career coaches. Gregg joins other Forbes Coaches Council members, who are hand-selected, to...
30 Years and 2,500 Programs in Learning & Development- Has Anything Changed?
My first real training development and delivery job was for the New York City Police Department in the 1980’s and it was a doozy: use professional actors to help train police officers learn how to manage what they called “EDP”s – Emotionally Disturbed Persons. My responsibility was to cast and direct the actors and help them create realistic characters – like drug addicts going through...