Let’s say you and your team members create an amazing new leadership development program to help your leaders build their coaching skills and increase engagement with their teams. Everyone RAVES about the program and demand for the program skyrockets. Naturally, the feedback on the program is extremely positive and your…

More and more, it’s in the news that companies are “returning to work.” And while that phrase makes sense as people are beginning to return to offices, the reality is that we never left work. Here are tips for supporting Leaders in times of transition. Employees have been working from…

One of the challenges organization Leaders face is how to ensure that you’re the Leader you need to be for today’s business needs. Senior Account Executive, Jamie Lane, shares how she gained a fresh perspective on four of America’s great historical figures, pointing to this paradox: the differences in their leadership roles are actually the common thread among them. Read on to see what Jamie believes is the lesson our business Leaders can learn from these forefathers about meeting today’s unique organizational needs.

Moving into the second half of 2021, companies continue to evolve in the way their employees show up to work, whether it is completely work-from-home, hybrid, or returning to in-person work. We are more than a year into the pandemic, and we are still learning how to support our Leaders through the ever-changing face of work. Coaching Right Now’s Judy Sandiford spoke with Regional Lead Coach, Jodi Gold, about the challenges businesses and Leaders continue to face because of the Covid health crisis and its impact on organizations at every level.

Not a week goes by that Coaching Right Now Head of Account Development, Rosanna Riffle, doesn’t hear from a colleague or a manager she’s coaching, “I just need to get better at time management.” …

Many companies have realized that in order to support a successful virtual workplace, they need to intentionally establish that which was taken for granted when employees walked into an office every day. From creating company culture, to hosting online hangouts, or stimulating water cooler talk through Slack channels, HR teams are working hard to keep employees linked to the company mission, to performance goals, and to their teams. In a virtual world, employee development can be a key driver of engagement, and managers play a critical role to ensure that employee development remains a focus.

We in Human Resources have long talked about human capital (HC) metrics: which ones are important, how do you calculate them, where does the raw data come from, and who in the organization cares about them. The answer to who cares about them is now the CEO, CFO, and Investors. As part of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s update to Regulation S-K, a final rule on human capital reporting will be effective November 9, 2020. That means that year end reporting for all SEC registered companies will need to report HC metrics. It’s not just SEC registered companies that will start reporting HC metrics — forward thinking organizations of all kinds will want to be transparent and help shape the standards.

When I look back on the roles I’ve had in companies over the years, a few stand out as special. One of these is heading up a Leadership Institute for a company going through major culture change. My organizational development team facilitated a Leaders-teaching-Leaders program that brought together groups of 20 cross-functional directors from across the business. Each group met every day for a week, over 3 sequential months.

As the story goes, back in 1962, President John F. Kennedy visited NASA for the first time. While he was touring the facility, he met a janitor who was sweeping with a broom. The President asked the janitor what he did for NASA, and the janitor replied, “I’m helping put a man on the moon.” This janitor understood how his work was as essential to the overall purpose of NASA as those who worked in mission control, or the astronauts who would eventually take that walk on the moon. Whether anecdotal or not, this story describes well the importance of finding purpose in our work.