Welcome back, colleagues and fellow industry observers! Today, we at the Center for Respectful Leadership are delving into compelling findings on the return-to-office (RTO) policies and hybrid work dynamics that are reshaping our work environments, as highlighted in our latest “The Respectful Leader Emergency Updates” series from March 21, 2024, titled “RTO – Return to...
Greetings, distinguished HR executives and leaders! It’s a pleasure to connect with you. I’m Gregg Ward, steering the ship at the Center for Respectful Leadership. Today, I’d like to draw your attention to a significant issue at hand — the 2024 elections casting a long shadow over the workplace.
First, let me introduce our center, founded half a decade ago. Our mission: to...
Recently, clients in the global financial services sector have asked for our guidance on a challenging workplace issue that I’ll call “the assumption of negative intent.”
Shortly after the Israeli-Hamas conflict exploded in October, Jewish employees in these large companies based on the US’s East Coast began complaining to HR about other employees speaking in Arabic to each other at work...
This week’s article is fromMaya Hu-Chan – thank you for always being a Voice for Respect!
INFLUENCING UP IS A STEP ABOVE MANAGING UP, AND IT CAN HAVE A BIG IMPACT. HERE ARE FOUR WAYS TO DO IT. Most people know how important it is to manage up. It takes day-to-day effort to successfully navigate the working relationship with a direct boss. But influencing up can be just as...
As a member of the Forbes Coaches Council, Gregg was asked to offer his expertise on making an ‘impact beyond profit’ and how it ties into your business model.
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Recently, while speaking at a large human resources conference, I sat down for breakfast with an HR executive who, after hearing about the work I do in respect, immediately ranted “I’m sick and tired of employees being so sensitive.” Wow.
Now, to be fair, I’ve heard this complaint many times before, especially from baby boomers who had to put up with a lot of disrespect and struggle for...
Last year I got an all-too-familiar call from Trevor, the head of HR at a mid-sized accounting firm in Virginia. He’d been recruited into the role six months earlier and, shortly after starting work, found what he called, “a culture of disrespect.”
“The senior managers have been playing favorites for years,” Trevor told me, “And everyone knows it.”
When I asked him about how this was impacting...
We can’t say enough about our local BBB co-working space, ignite sparked by BBB, in San Diego. If you are in the area drop in and let them know Gregg Ward from the The Center for Respectful Leadership sent you!
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...
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...