Toxic leaders are like weeds in a garden. If allowed to flourish, they will choke the productivity out of others around them.
Utilizing an Evidence-Based DEI Strategy
The most frequent arguments against DEI initiatives are focused around competence and merit. On competence, they argue that a less competent person is receiving an opportunity because they are from a historically disenfranchised group. In actuality, less competent people have been receiving opportunities because they were from the majority population and/or had a relationship that provided them an unfair advantage for decades.
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Toxic leaders are like weeds in your garden or lawn. If you don’t remove them right away, they will infest your entire organization resulting in stifled growth, reduced morale and the departure of quality employees.
Continue reading “Weeding Out Toxic Leaders in Your Organization”Identifying and Filling the Gaps in Your Leadership Practice
After having lived in the Midwest most of my life, I have come to recognize spring as pothole repair season. It usually takes place from December to April as municipalities repair potholes caused by the snow, rain and ice from winter storms. Already in 2023, the city of Chicago has repaired 215,000 potholes. If not repaired, potholes can damage a car’s tires, alignment and undercarriage, as well as posing a problem for bicyclists.
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Millennials and Generation Z: Your Leadership Skills Need to be Practiced for Career Success!
Here is my interview with Cascading Leadership’s Lawrence O. Brown, MBA on becoming a better leader.
Please listen to the full podcast wherever you get your podcasts or on Spotify.
Advancing Your DEI Initiatives With Data
Implementing a diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) program requires an organization-wide cultural change. This change needs to start from the top and permeate throughout every level. Some of the areas impacted by the change include promotions, assignments, hiring practices and resources planning. Additionally, individual managers will need to change the way they select or recommend people for an opportunity as well as embrace new processes while selecting from a broader pool of qualified candidates.
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Radar is used in several aspects of our everyday lives. It works by using electromagnetic sensors to detect, locate, track and recognize objects from a distance. Some common uses include:
- Tracking weather patterns and storms by the weather service
- Tracking and monitoring airplanes by traffic control
- Tracking spacecrafts and other objects by NASA
- Tracking friendly and enemy forces by the military
Strategies to Retain Your Best Leaders in 2023
Organizations lose good people every year. In this current era of workforce disruptions, the losses can be even worse. The challenge for organizations is to minimize the loss of their best leaders. This has implications not just for the current year but could reverberate for years to come from an interruption of your leadership pipeline. There are two strategies organizations should deploy immediately to minimize the loss of their best leaders in 2023 and beyond, including:
Continue reading “Strategies to Retain Your Best Leaders in 2023”Step Up to Leadership Resources Management for 2023
Organizations spend billions of dollars each year on leadership development programs, but very little, if anything, on managing the leadership resources they developed. Leadership resources management is a data-driven approach to managing an organization’s leadership resources. It enables more informed decisions in promotions, assignments, retention and hiring by replacing subjective interviews, relationship-based promotions and selections with a quantifiable, repeatable and unbiased leadership management process. It goes beyond leadership development and helps organizations better manage their leadership resources.
Continue reading “Step Up to Leadership Resources Management for 2023”Tales From the Leadership Front: The Negative Impact of Toxic Leaders
Have you ever worked for a toxic leader? Fortunately for me, I have never been in that situation. I’ve worked for bad or ineffective leaders, but not a toxic one. Toxic leaders disrespect their employees, are abusive, unethical and typically don’t take responsibility when something goes wrong (but will take the credit when things go right).
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