Understanding why people quit jobs is critical to building a positively charged talent magnet for your organization. Managers who invest in their people and understand the drivers of engagement attract rather than repel talent. How do your managers stack up? We offer some tactics to drive positive talent magnetism.

Do you wear a mask for physical or psychological safety? Authentic leadership is about being genuine in your actions. Halloween and the idea of donning a costume to be someone you are not brings to mind the concept of authentic leadership. While it is fun to dress up for Halloween and wear a mask, I wonder how many of us really get to be our authentic selves at work? Do you have to wear a mask to work each day to fit in with your corporate culture or can you be your true self?

An investment in the team provides the greatest ROI for a small investment. Choosing how to spend limited resources to create the greatest leverage is the job of every business leader.

Turtles while know for being sure and steady make progress when they stick their necks out.

Two simple life hacks to reduce personal stress. CONTROL, ATL, DELETE and shutting down the background apps that are draining energy.

Executive coaching should model the changes expected of the coachee. By shifting to an unconventional venue, the coachee can feel liberated and begin to make the changes required to improve performance.

A greeting by a tech influencer warned me about the real threat of the Covid 19 virus back on January 7, 2020.

While helping to select mentors for The Sandbox non-profit, I learned a valuable lesson from a 14 year old mentor candidate. Serving others is the key to effective leadership and our youth understand it, but adults often forget the power of servant leadership.

Making work from home work for your organization.

I am an early adopter of technology. However, I wanted longer that I usually do to embrace electric vehicle technology. In hindsight, I question what took me so long.

Forget the corporate ladder and replace it with a career scaffold. Building stronger lateral foundations allow employees to progress further in their careers

There is a big difference between team building and team bonding. Adam Cannavo highlights the difference and provides some advice for planning your next offsite.

Brian Formato shares one of the best failure stories ever. He’s the founder and principal at Groove Management, a human capital consulting firm focusing on organizational and talent development. He also created LeaderSurf, a professional development program that teaches leadership through surfing.

As a senior executive are you carrying too much of the burden for your organization on your shoulders?

In business we often talk about the iceberg theory and the fact that more lies beneath the surface, but to witness it firsthand and to take away new learnings in Iceland was even more impressive.

Too many organizations focus on employee retention when the goal should be employee engagement.

Green Syn-energy is a unique approach to solar farm grounds maintenance employed by O2/EMC and Sun Raised Farms.  Sheep are raised on the solar farm and they maintain the grounds.

Excerpt of keynote address to the SCTE on disruption, innovation, change and resilience.

If HR is responsible for managing under-performers in the organization, what happens when the head of HR is the under-performer?