This week, we’re doing something new – turning over our newsletter to a dear friend and client whom I had the privilege to serve as a consultant many decades ago. He recently shared a story about something he did back then that I think is very moving and profound. He gave me permission to reprint his story, but he’d prefer to remain anonymous. Still, I can say that at the time he was serving...
This article was originally published in AIMA (All India Managment Association)
Creating high-performing teams is a tough thing to do. Keeping them high performing is even tougher. To crack the mysteries of high performance, consider this wisdom: ‘Successful people consistently do what other people only do occasionally. Successful teams are packed with successful people. If we could...
Join Erika and Gregg Ward as they discuss his new book Restoring Respect and the Restoring Respect workbook. Tune in here and learn how to bring people back together into functional working relationships.
This article originally appeared in CEO World Magazine on Feb 24,2023. You can access it directly here.
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...
This article was featured in CU Management
Why leading respectfully matters, plus six ways to build a culture of respect at your organization
Most people don’t think about respect very much unless there’s a lack of it. And then, that’s all they think about. It turns out that respect in work relationships is far more important than most of us imagine.
At theCenter for Respectful Leadership, we...
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...
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...
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...
Despite his recent arrest in Romania on charges of rape and human trafficking, and despite climate activist Greta Thunberg’s cutting take-down tweet (one of the most-liked in history!) mocking him, and despite the understandable temptation to dismiss him as some odious, disrespectful, self-promoting, narcistic, attention-seeking, arrogant, infantile jerk, we cannot ignore the fact that...