You Don’t Have To Be Nice To Be Respected
Photo by Roland Samuel on Unsplash Ted was a major player in the C-suite of a Fortune 500 company when I got the call from HR to “fix” him. Apparently, he’d rubbed one too many people the wrong way. He was “more than abrasive,” they told me; he was downright rude, controlling, disrespectful and exhaustively demanding. He had a revolving door of assistants and colleagues and a growing...
7 Practices That Will Make You A Respectful Leader
A lot has happened in the world since my book, The Respectful Leader was first published in 2016. At that time, employee surveys were giving us early warning signals of disrespectful behavior increasing in the workplace. Leading up to the U.S. presidential election, the political climate and the amount of incivility in public discourse continued to heat up. Shortly afterward, it appears that...
Master These Leadership Techniques in 2017
In 2015, millennials surpassed Gen X as America’s largest generation in the workforce. Now, many millennials are becoming managers – they currently hold 20% of management jobs, and 40% of millennials say they want leadership roles. No matter your generation, becoming a better communicator and leader will help you compete for those management jobs. A recent Forbes article has suggestions on how...
What’s Your Leadership Style?
Bill Taylor is the cofounder of Fast Company and author of the new book Simply Brilliant: How Great Organizations Do Ordinary Things in Extraordinary Ways. After 30+ years of experience working with leaders, Taylor has identified four styles of leadership. He outlines them in the Harvard Business Review article “The 4 Leadership Styles, and How to Identify Yours.” Which one are you? The...
Respectful Leadership Means Putting Down The Smartphone
OK, show of hands…how many of you have been in meetings where the boss (or multiple bosses) have been checking their smart phones while you or your colleagues were in the middle of presenting? You can all put your hands down now (uh, ma’am, you can put both hands down now). Yes, this has happened to many of us. And how does it make us feel? Most of us would say...
Just Because I Can (tell too many stories)
It was 2006 and I was sitting in the back of a large conference room at a military installation on the West Coast when I was 99% certain that I would have smack my head against the wall just to keep awake. It seems our Program Manager, an active duty Navy Captain, had decided to tell yet another story during our weekly “all hands” meeting. The problem? While he may have been a good...