by dankeelan | Jul 9, 2024 | Featured, Leadership
We have all met someone we love working for or with. That person seems to have that extra gear for rallying the troops and getting everyone to bring their A-game to the office or wherever. It’s as if they have a magnetic personality that everyone is...
by dankeelan | Jun 25, 2024 | Leadership, Teamwork
Climbing a mountain is a journey not only of physical endurance, but also of profound personal and collective growth. Whether scaling the world’s highest peaks or undertaking a multi-day trek, these expeditions can teach us massive amounts about leadership in our day...
by dankeelan | Jun 11, 2024 | Leadership
For leaders of people, managing conversations, processes, and goals related to performance becomes more predictable, less random, more fact-based, less emotional, and easier to understand when talked about as time-bound activities, goals, and assessments, and...
by dankeelan | Jun 11, 2024 | Leadership
The latest reports for Q1 2024 note that employee motivation and engagement have fallen to just 30%, the lowest levels in the past 11 years. The greatest decrease in motivation is among the younger generation and those who work only remotely or only from the office....
by dankeelan | May 6, 2024 | Leadership
Management positions are no longer the stuff of dreams. Is it because we were misled about what they really entail? I explored this in a recent paper in Organizational Dynamics, suggesting that maybe we need to rework how we think about people management....
by dankeelan | Apr 9, 2024 | Leadership, Mentoring
There’s an aphorism that says, “If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” This advice could be a smart way to look at mentors, too. A 2024 study from mentorcliQ found that 98% of Fortune 500 companies have mentoring programs, and the...
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