Respectful Salesforce Leader is Committed to Equality
Salesforce Chief Executive Marc Benioff has proved himself to be a Respectful Leader by taking action to ensure gender equality in his organization. So far, Salesforce has looked at every one of their female employees’ pay and spent $3 million to adjust salaries so that men and women are paid equally. Equal pay has been a hot issue lately, and reports show that women make 74 cents to a man’s...
Learn From the Best
450 executives gathered at Fortune’s Most Powerful Women Summit this year to discuss career secrets, the industries that they work in, and advice for women in business. The Washington Post has condensed three days of career and leadership suggestions from these women into the five best pieces of advice. These three are our favorites. Be a thermostat. This is a great analogy for what you’ll...
Be Respectful by Learning From Others
Most people know that absenteeism, theft, and sexual harassment are disrespectful work behaviors. But what about the unwritten rules of workplace respect? Issues often arise when there aren’t clear-cut guidelines. Legacy Business Cultures shares some excellent ways that you can foster respectful interaction in your organization. Be curious. Wanting to know about the views of others creates...
Lack of Diversity = Poorer Financial Performance
If you’ve received decent Diversity and Inclusion training, you know this fact: companies with more diverse workforces and more diversity in the C-Suite perform better financially. And new report from McKinsey & Company underscores this fact yet again. But sadly, the message doesn’t seem to be getting through to corporate leadership, especially in the US. The reality is that 97% of...
Bad Behavior, People Problems & Sticky Situations | Revised Edition
Back in the 90’s, my clients kept saying things like “We get a lot out of your training programs. How come all your stuff isn’t in a book?” Good question. So, in 2002 I wrote Bad Behavior, People Problems & Sticky Situations: A Toolbook for Managers and Team Leaders. I designed it to be a quick and handy reference guide for managers, who can just flip to the index, look up their problem...
The Respectful Leader |To Be Published by John Wiley & Sons, July 2016
After focusing on the ideas around respect and respectful leadership for many years, I finally decided to put pen to paper – or least fingers to keyboard – and, with the help of author Walter G. Meyer, write my next book which is called The Respectful Leader: Seven Ways to Influence Without Intimidation, A Business Fable. In this book, I introduce a fictional CEO, Des Hogan, who has been...
Gregg Ward Group | The Spark to Possibility
Most of us have been treated with respect at some point in our careers. But sadly, many of us have been disrespected at work – sometimes over and over – by customers, colleagues, bosses, and even by the very processes, procedures and cultures put in place by our employers. Today, more and more organizations are finding that a respectful culture is the foundation upon which...
You Don’t Have To Like Someone to Work With Them
There’s an old saying in business and it goes like this…”You don’t have to like someone to work with them.” I agree, there are many people that we work with who we don’t necessarily like, and we sure wouldn’t want to hang out with them on a personal basis. But, when we do work with these people, we usually get the job done; sometimes really well. So why is that? Some people would...
Healthcare Business Women’s Association
Recently, I was invited by the Southern California Chapter of the Healthcare Businesswomen’s Association to speak on Respectful Leadership at their Fall 2014 meeting hosted by the giant pharmaceutical company Genentech. The room was filled with executives, staff, physicians and even clinical researchers, who seemed very attentive and interested in the concepts within and practices of...