Is Your Leadership Worthy of Respect? Here’s How to Check
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...
Leadership Matters: Building Morale By Building Respect
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...
Respectful Leadership: The Key to Boosting Employee Morale
This article originally appeared in Training Industry on April 10, 2023. You can access it directly here . If you’re like most people these days, you’re busy. Jumping from meeting to meeting, call to call, and email to text, with little time for chit chat or what are quaintly known as “the niceties.” Sometimes even the most common before-the-meeting question, “How are you?” will be skipped in...
Respectful Leadership: The Key to Boosting Employee Morale
This article was featured in Industry Training. If you’re like most people these days, you’re busy. Jumping from meeting to meeting, call to call, and email to text, with little time for chit chat or what are quaintly known as “the niceties.” Sometimes even the most common before-the-meeting question, “How are you?” will be skipped in the interest of getting down to business. But research...
Ethics in the Workplace
Ethics is becoming a BIG issue again in organizations. The evidence includes… Sam Bankman’s cryptocurrency company’s collapse – “...a place full of conflicts of interest, nepotism, and lack of oversight.” The failure of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) after risky and unethical behaviors lead to deceit and manipulation, including their leadership dumping stock in their...
Practicing Regular Respect Is Easy Until It Isn’t
Most of us, when we’re entering or exiting a public location such as an office building, coffee shop, or retailer, will keep the door open for someone we don’t know. We’ll also say “excuse me” when we bump into someone in public. And, if you’re like the vast majority of people, when someone sneezes, you’ll offer a “bless you.” In these instances, most of us will exemplify what I refer to...
In a world of incivility, companies strive to cultivate a respectful workplace
This article originally appeared in WorkLife News on March 21, 2023. You can access it directly here. From cringe-worthy emails to boardroom meltdowns and disrespectful bosses, incivility threatens to harm business while ensuring that employees take the first opportunity to head for the exits as companies desperately try to hold onto talent. Rude, boorish behavior is, of course, everywhere —...
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...