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  How to Successfully Transition Into Your New Leadership Role with Kat Rippy Hello Leaders! Today I thought I’d cover a pretty hot topic – leaders in transition. A while back, we posted an article on how to manage a transition to a new leadership role after I realized that a many of the leaders [...]

Recently on the blog, we gave you a list of 10 Tips To Help You Adapt To Your New Boss. We talked how to deal with the dynamics of your new boss, have the difficult conversations in an appropriate manner, and improve your overall relationship with them. All that being said, those are all suggestions […]

  Administrative Staff as a Strategic Advantage: How to Be a Better Partner with Those Who Support You with Debbie Gross Debbie Gross is the former Chief Executive Assistant to the former CEO of Cisco and has over 30 years in the field of administrative service. She is not your typical administrative assistant. She is [...]

Folks, we had an important conversation recently on The Everyday Leader podcast. Lately, we’ve been working with several leaders who are dealing with the very real situation of having to adjust to a new boss, and having a difficult time with it. We wanted to share some useful thoughts on the topic in case you are […]

If you’re interested in retaining the star players at your company, you’re going to need a good strategy to fight the constant threat of your competitors enticing them to jump ship. High performers have been found to deliver 400% more productivity than the average performer, and with the labor market being as tight as it […]

Its early on Monday morning and you just arrived at work. You spent your entire commute once again thinking about — and dreading — all the various conversations you have to have this month with your direct reports, and its really starting to weigh you down. Some are retiring soon but already appear to have […]

One of the many responsibilities we have as leaders is to effectively manage the organizational systems that are in place to support the retirement and exit processes of our longtime employees. And this is no trivial matter — we have seen all too often soon-to-retirees mentally checking out before they’re physically out the door, because […]

  More Than Just a Headshot: How Leaders Can Manage Their Own Personal Brand Through Visual Imagery with Stephanie Simpson Stephanie Simpson is a business and personal branding photographer with her own firm called Simpson Portraits. She started her company because she loves to help leaders like you show the world why you are different, and [...]

We recently had the opportunity to meet with Andi Campbell, SVP of People and Culture at LAZ Parking, and picked her brain on some pretty meaty topics. Among these include her nontraditional approach to HR, her secret sauce to success as the only lady leader on the executive committee at her company, and some of […]

Have you ever experienced a big “wake up” on your life journey–where one day, everything is different and you can’t go back to what was before? After my first child I had two miscarriages, and then I entered into a period that was of deep introspection for me. Caught off guard by my dark yet […]