Summoning the HR Police
Recently, after I delivered a keynote on Restoring Respect, the head of HR at a large LA-based corporation approached me with a perspective I hadn’t considered. “We all know that many employees call human resources professionals in their company ‘the HR police.’ But what they don’t realize is that some managers really force us to play that tough cop role. They’re too afraid, or too conflict...
Gregg Ward: A New Kind Of Coach
This article originally appeared in Hollywood Digest on March 15, 2023. You can access it directly here. Gregg Ward is my kind of guy. After years of sifting through numerous corporate and leadership advice books, the often maligned nonfiction subcategory has hope yet. With the release ofRestoring Respect, Ward comes across as warm, affable, and genuine. He also genuinely knows his...
The Need For Respectful Leadership – Now More Than Ever
An accountant decides to leave her current employer to find a better job elsewhere. Soon afterwards she is sued by that employer for the cost of the professional training she was given while at the company. Another company decides to eliminate the work-from-home policy that had been established during the Covid period because managers cannot trust their employees to do their work unsupervised....
Respectful Leadership: An Interview with Gregg Ward
One of the ways the workplace has changed is an increase in disrespectful leadership. Where did such disrespect come from, and what can leaders to to reverse the trend? Can we blame politics? Social Media? How about the fall of the Berlin Wall? Or maybe all those things. Listen to Steve Prentice’s interview with author and leadership expert Gregg Ward here.
Is Your Leadership Worthy of Respect? Here’s How to Check
Gregg Ward writes for CEO World Magazine. Are your actions and behaviors as a leader worthy of respect? It’s a simple—yet loaded—question. While you may believe other people should treat you with respect because of your status, authority, or position, you can’t expect they automatically will. The Respectful Leader will make an ongoing effort to be respect-worthy. Today, many leaders fail to...
Celebrate Black history. All of it.
This is the first Black History Month in a time in which lynching is a federal crime and Juneteenth is a national holiday. Last March, President Biden signed the Emmett Till Antilynching Act — only three Republicans voted against the measure in the House, and the Senate passed it by unanimous consent. The preceding summer, the Juneteenth National Independence Day Act became law, when it, too,...
8 Ways to celebrate Black History Month in the workplace
As I mentioned last week, we will be honoring Black History Month weekly with the Respectfully Resist newsletter. Let us look inward and how you can create a safe and collaborative process to celebrate in the workplace. Here is part of a blog by Hi Bob Inc. If you haven’t already created events at your organization, let this article assist you in the brainstorming process. How can we celebrate...
A history of Black-owned businesses in the US
Throughout February, in celebration of Black History Month, our newsletter will feature history on Black owned businesses and commentary by Black business entrepreneurs. This week, we’re sharing a short history, with a timeline, of Black owned businesses in the US that was originally published by Hiscox insurance, which is The Center for Respectful Leadership’s insurer. Black-owned businesses...
Mistakes Leaders Make: and what they should do about them
Now that it’s come to light that former Vice President Mike Pence’s lawyers have discovered classified documents in his Indiana home, I’m sensing that most Americans are considering what is surely to be dubbed “document gate,” to be a political clown show unworthy of their attention and are tuning it out (if they ever tuned in). But there are a couple of leadership lessons here that are well...