Know Thy Successor: How To Retain Client Assets Across Generations
Here is the first step to retaining assets across generations: educate yourself on the generational similarities and differences, and then get to know the different generations in your client’s family so you can make a concrete plan to meet your clients’ successors and cultivate an ongoing relationship with them. STEP 1: Do Your Homework There […]
Male Gender Inequality in the Workforce?
A recently popular business topic has been gender, in particular, the rise of women and the “failings” of men. Or rather, the perceived lack of adaptability that men possess in our 2.0 economic world according to Hanna Rosin’s new book The End of Men: And the Rise of Women. Go ahead, just Google ‘The End […]
From Successful to Very Successful: Why Less is More
“Success is a catalyst for failure,” says Greg McKeown in a recent Harvard Business Review article. The basic premise of his statement is that once someone has a taste of success, a world of opportunities opens up and the temptation to pursue all of those new opportunities is too enticing to ignore. This loss of […]
How to Increase Performance Through Learning
What does the World of Warcraft have to do with retaining your star employees and recruiting the best of the best for your organization? If you keep up in the blogosphere, you may have seen research about the countless negative effects of video games, as well as scattered positive impacts that these virtual environments provide. […]
Fiction, Falsehoods, and Other Myths About Working Mothers
A recent feature in The Atlantic by Anne-Marie Slaughter focuses on the workplace gender struggle. What seems like a clever title, “Why Women Still Can’t Have it All,” is actually a blunt article offering practical ideas that organizations could easily implement. Why implement her ideas? Because these ideas could help organizations recruit and retain valuable […]
Coaching Corporate Athletes
Executive Coaching helps strong managers become even stronger. Their success is ultimately your success as a leader. The same can be said of Olympic coaches and the athletes they coach. A recent article in the Harvard Business Review looked at various coaching tactics and strengths that have helped coaches produce winning athletes in high […]
How Organizations Can Help Turn the Corner on Recession
There’s been some debate on the New York Times Opinion page concerning the relationship between unemployment and skill gaps. Unemployment has wavered to and fro since the recession, yet many employers have been unable to fill over half of their positions with qualified employees, states the CEO of ManpowerGroup in one of the articles. On […]
Situational Leadership: Identifying Your Leadership Strengths
You could say that leaders lead based on situations. Yet Robyn Benincasa in her Fast Company article 6 Leadership Styles and When You Should Use Them claims that “A leader leads based on strengths, not titles”. So what’s a leader to do? Combine the two ideas. In other words, none of the leadership styles discussed […]
This is the Year for Gen Y to Speak Up
According to Matt Miller’s recent Washington Post opinion article, Americans under the age of 35 are getting overlooked, especially when it comes to public policy. Student debt is soaring at unprecedented rates; Pell Grants today cover approximately 33% of public college costs, compared to 70% in previous decades. In addition, Gen Y is having a […]
