Category: Leadership Development

  • Servant Leadership – How Meeting the Needs of Your Team Can Make You a More Effective Leader

    A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.– Jim Rohn, American entrepreneur. By the Mind Tools Content Team Why Servant Leadership? Through servant leadership, your team learns to trust you,  knowing that you are  “there for them.” …

  • Can Work Friends Become Real Friends?

    Friendship and colleagues:Can workplace bonds cut it in the real world? Oct 7th 2016 This article is part of our Change Generation project, supported by KBC. To read more click here. MAKING FRIENDS AT WORK can be a tricky business. As we get older, we spend more time with work colleagues and less with even our…

  • Office Friendships Can Hurt Your Career–A Lesson Learned The Hard Way

    BY ALLIE HOFER Regardless of our specific fields, we all have experience with personal relationships in the workplace. Anywhere from the daily exchange of a cheesy colloquialism to a close friendship cultivated over years of working together, it’s inevitable that the line between personal and professional will be blurred and the two sectors will intertwine.…

  • The Importance of Emotional Intelligence at Work

    Use These 7 Emotional Intelligence Tips to Be a Better Leader Mariah DeLeon • Guest Writer   Scholars may have coined the term “emotional intelligence” in the early 1990s, but business leaders quickly took the concept and made it their own. According to emotional intelligence, or EQ, success is strongly influenced by personal qualities such as perseverance, self-control…

  • Is it Legal?  The Key to Derailing Harassment Suits

    DECEMBER 21, 2015 BY TOM D’AGOSTINO   An employee gets a bad write-up – and then complains he’s being harassed. Does that sound familiar? If so, take a look at Goodale v. Landscape Forms, Inc., a favorable new ruling for employers. Took Complaint Seriously In Goodale, an employee in Michigan complained to human resources (HR) that his co-workers were making fun of him…