Posts Tagged ‘leadership’
How good of an example of living a balanced life are you for your team?
SmartPulse — our weekly nonscientific reader poll in SmartBrief on Leadership — tracks feedback from more than 160,000 business leaders. We run the poll question each Tuesday in our e-newsletter. Last week, we asked: How good of an example of living a balanced life are you for your team? I’m a perfect example. My life [...]
How well do leaders in your organization compromise with each other to achieve the best result?
SmartPulse — our weekly nonscientific reader poll in SmartBrief on Leadership — tracks feedback from more than 160,000 business leaders. We run the poll question each Tuesday in our e-newsletter. Last week, we asked: How well do leaders in your organization compromise with each other to achieve the best result? We always negotiate and compromise [...]
Your leadership trump cards
Eileen N. Sinett, author of “Speaking that Connects,” is a coach-consultant and keynote speaker whose knowledge spans several cross-functional disciplines: the speech arts, communication sciences, psychology, career management, and training and development. She is committed to promoting confidence and clarity in speakers worldwide, enhancing personal and business relationships through communication improvement, and raising the bar [...]
4 tips for managers to help employees realize their potential
Kate Matsudaira is vice president of engineering at Decide, a technology startup focused on helping consumers make smarter purchases through science and data. She has extensive experience managing software teams at some of the top software companies, such as Amazon and Microsoft. Almost every company focuses on hiring and recruiting star employees, but it is [...]
Spotlight on Association Leadership: American Cleaning Institute President and CEO Ernie Rosenberg
Ernie Rosenberg is president and CEO of the American Cleaning Institute, which represents producers of household, industrial and institutional cleaning products, their ingredients and finished packaging; oleochemical producers; and chemical distributors to the cleaning product industry. ACI’s The 2012 ACI Annual Meeting & Industry Convention is Jan. 30 to Feb. 4 in Orlando, Fla. Rosenberg [...]
As a leader, how much of a project’s success or failure can you influence?
SmartPulse — our weekly nonscientific reader poll in SmartBrief on Leadership — tracks feedback from more than 160,000 business leaders. We run the poll question each Tuesday in our e-newsletter. Last week, we asked: As a leader, how much of a project’s success or failure can you influence? I can affect every aspect of a [...]
4 choice leadership acts for 2012
Shawn Murphy is president of Achieved Strategies and a learning and organizational development consultant. He is @shawmu on Twitter and can also be found on LinkedIn. 2011 was a bully. It relentlessly beat up managers and employees equally. Now with skinned knees and black eyes, we stand in a new year. We have a new [...]
Sales leadership and training are key to peddling a new product
SmartPulse — our weekly nonscientific reader poll in SmartBrief on Sales — tracks feedback from sales managers and executives. We run the poll question each Wednesday in our e-newsletter. Last week, we asked: Do your long-standing team members have trouble selling new products? Yes, but only sometimes: 46.81% Yes, almost always: 27.66% No, almost never: [...]
