5 Steps to Better, ROI Driver Team Building

Team building in the workplace usually conjures images of teams mandated to be in a training room, checking their iPhones, Blackberries, and iPads to see what they should be working on and waiting for someone to provide an assignment with little to no connection to their work that provides a predictable outcome – teams are…

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Leadership is All in Your Head

What makes a perfect leader? It’s a great question with no defined answer – until now. Are you ready?? Perfect leadership is all in your head. Literally – it comes down to this: What’s going on inside your brain. How you’re expressing those thoughts, ideas, and beliefs to others. It is your ability to harness…

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Why Employee Engagement is Costing You Money and How to Fix It

Think employee engagement isn’t quantitative? Think again. Employee engagement – that warm, feel-good tenet of a happy office environment – starts to escape into the ether when budgets start tightening and projections start being made. And the reasoning isn’t that engaged employees aren’t important or that a productive, focused, and happy workforce cannot make a…

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Strategies for Managing Change

Change is a constant in our lives, and as a result we’re always looking for strategies for managing change. Do you know how you actually process change on a personal level? We all inherently have a way to work through trying or fast-shifting times – it is our own change management process. However, I’m not…

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Creating a Great Place to Work

Recently, a friend sent me a Harvard Business Review blog that helped me think about how I can make my office a truly great place to come to work. The opening paragraph of the blog was particularly striking: More than 100 studies have now found that the most engaged employees — those who report they’re…

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Want Innovation? Get Out on the Golf Course

I hope I don’t turn away non-golfers with this blog, but it’s Friday, the weather (at our office in New York, at least) is beautiful, and I’m wishing I was hitting the links. That being said, I’m not going to go into a “sports as life or business metaphor”…too much. So here is why getting…

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The Happiness Index

Well, this blog isn’t exactly about a specific index, but wouldn’t it be nice to know just how happy we are? Just googling “Happiness Scale” threw up online tests such as the “Subjective Happiness Scale” developed by Dr. Sonja Lyubomirsky, author of The How of Happiness. But what has this got to do with anything?…

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Managing Relationships

One of the things I love talking about – both in a personal and work capacity – is relationships. I would like to say it is a topic close to my heart, but I know now that it is actually in my brain. Relationships are everywhere. We can talk seriously about relationships between business partners…

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