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...
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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...
Conflict on global teams can show up in ways you may not expect. Here are the skills to navigate these moments.
Ted and his team had reached a crisis point.
Ted is a senior leader with a global company. His team had been collaborating cross-functionally on a project with another team, but the project had come to a standstill. The relationship between both teams had broken down, to the point of...
Relationships are at the heart of everything, even (or especially) in business. But good relationships take work to build and develop. And unless you have put in that work, you can’t assume your colleagues and employees will automatically trust and respect you. Your relationships function better when you’ve invested some relational capital. Imagine how different Luke Skywalker’s response to...
Sometimes the truth is even more disturbing than the rumors. Here at CRL, we can’t point to a clearer case of organizational disrespect for employees, directly fostered by the leadership, than the stunning story of the troubled mortgage company Better.com and its now infamous CEO Vishal Garg. You can read all about it in the excellent Fast Company article via the link provided below.
But...
Last week, MIT/Sloan Management Review published the results of a massive research effort by the university and its partners studying the root causes of the so-called “Great Resignation of 2021,” which we at the Center for Respectful Leadership call the “Great Reconsideration.”
To us, the #1 reason people quit their jobs last year – a “Toxic Culture” – is no surprise. For nearly two decades,...
Conflict in the workplace has far-reaching consequences that go far beyond transient misunderstandings.
My 20+ years of counseling executives from some of the world’s largest organizations on how respect affects the bottom line informed a lot of our work at The Center for Respectful Leadership. I work in the business ecosystem using two very distinct models – fix it or build it. I...