If you're a leader, do you manage with the wellbeing of your knowledge workers' brains in mind? I talked about why this is essential during my recent interview with Andrea Simon for the On the Brink podcast. Andi is a principal and founder of Simon Associates...
Your leadership style has a big effect on your own productivity — and the productivity of your team. I dug into this and other productivity tips for leaders as a guest on a recent episode of The LEADx Leadership Show podcast with Kevin Kruse. Kevin is the founder +...
According to Training Magazine, average corporate training budgets depend on the size of the company, and range from $290,000 (fewer than 1,000 employees) to $13 million (more than 10,000 employees) annually. Throughout my 20-plus years in the corporate training...
Employee retention is business leaders' top concern right now. In a competitive job market, how can your company retain star performers, making sure they are are happy and that they don't leave for greener pastures? Raises can be part of the equation, but other perks...
I present and train at corporate offsite events and meetings of all sizes, and I've seen many that could have been improved. To prevent you from making the same mistakes, this is the second half of my two-part article on improving your annual corporate offsite...
Lots of articles have been written about how to improve meetings, but they're mostly about the day-t0-day meetings you have at your organization. Not a lot has been written about your biggest and most expensive meeting: your annual corporate conference. Yet this is a...
Does working only 40 hours (or less!) per week seem like an impossible dream? Are you convinced that your career will suffer if you don't work "all the time?" Limiting your hours so that you can have a balanced life is actually very possible, if you use the right...
My latest book, Work Without Walls, has been steadily gaining momentum since its launch in February. It's great to see the book resonating with readers and reviewers who want to learn how to create thriving, productive workplace cultures. I'm especially excited about...
Before you can improve productivity, you have to define it for yourself . The definition I use for myself and to inform my work with clients is, "achieving or producing a significant amount or result." (Emphasis mine). Productivity is subjective (and hard to measure)...
My latest article for Harvard Business Review is based on something that happens to me a lot as a productivity trainer: Executives want me to teach their team time management tips and techniques to help them be more productive. But, in talking to them, it becomes...
