Learning how to develop and convey a more ‘strategic executive voice’ — in part by understanding context — can help leaders avoid finding themselves in a potentially career-damaging situation. Your executive voice is less about your performance; it relates more to your strategic instincts, understanding of context, and awareness of the signals you send in your daily interactions and communications. Read on to learn more…
For many years, marketing, corporate communications and investor relations have been loosely connected by a dotted line in many organizations. Today, however, as organizations undergo digital transformation, rethink traditional approaches to communication and strive to underpin all business strategy with a sense of purpose, it’s more essential than ever that these divisions be fully integrated to achieve the kind of consistency and efficiency in messaging that key stakeholders expect.
Level 5 Leadership is a concept developed by Jim Collins in his classic business book, Good to Great. In today’s fast paced corporate climate, it’s powerful to reflect on these findings - still fully relevant and essential to success. How do the leaders in your company score within this framework? What kinds of strategies can be used to move from Level 3 or 4… to Level 5 leadership? And what role does effective, strategic, high EQ communication play among team members?
Strong, positive culture is a sustainable advantage — leading to outsized rewards in customer loyalty, brand credibility, employee engagement, strategic agility, and stakeholder trust.
Yet leaders have the most impact when they take the company mission and values off the wall and translate them into everyday practice…
It’s not surprising that people benefit significantly from positive feedback about their strengths and contributions - both inside and outside of the workplace. This kind fo feedback fosters healthy emotions, builds personal agency and resourcefulness, and helps to bolster the quality of our relationships with colleagues, friends and family members. Sharing information about our reflected best selves with new colleagues as a part of onboarding processes, for example, increases job satisfaction and reduces employee turnover. So why aren’t we doing more of this? Dale Carnegie and John Maxwell liken the process of developing people to mining for gold: you must move tons of dirt in the process, but you go in looking for the gold, not the dirt. Read on to learn about how to do this more deliberately in the workplace to increase productivity and feelings of engagement…
What's the overall result of ineffective internal communication efforts? 70% of employees say they are "not engaged", and as a direct result, companies are losing 20 to 25% of their revenue each year due to disengaged employees. How can you turn this trend around within your own company? Click here to review some leading strategies so you can get started right away...
