This Isn’t Your Father’s Better Business Bureau
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!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...
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...
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...
Why Trying to Put the Opinion Genie Back in the Bottle Doesn’t Work (and what you can do instead)
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...
Sympathy Versus Empathy and Why You Should Know the Difference
When one of my clients experienced discrimination in the workplace, she confided in a colleague. She had hoped to feel understood, validated, and supported. Instead, her colleague’s response made her feel dismissed and belittled. She was a high performer at her company, but she had recently been denied a leadership position. “You’re Asian,” her boss had said....
Open Our Hearts
Although I’m having trouble finding out more about someone named Janice Maeditere, they’re quoted in many places on the web as having said something about Christmas that I find particularly profound… “Christmas is not as much about opening our presents as it is opening our hearts.” On December 8th, the Center for Respectful Leadership held its CEO Summit and CEO’s Give Back Bash in San Diego...
The War on Children
For this week’s newsletter, I was going to craft a take-down of the so-called, made-up, non-existent “war on Christmas” (did you know that it was originally ginned up by the John Birch Society in 1959?) but decided it was much more important to talk about another – all too real – war instead: Putin’s illegal and unwarranted invasion of Ukraine. The horrors of this war are numerous: constant...
To Be a Great Leader, Learn to Delegate
One of the greatest challenges for many new managers lies in a self-transformation from task master to leader. This transition involves the ability to effectively delegate responsibilities to other team members and empower them to succeed. Harvard Business Review Contributor Jesse Sostrin discusses this common management dilemma and offers strategies to help streamline your workflow, build...