by Scott Anderson | Feb 3, 2016 | Leadership, Personal Enrichment
As this article in the Huffington Post points out, we typically get promoted for our technical skills rather than our leadership ones. Some leadership skills are innate but for the most part, excellence in leadership is gained through a wide variety of accumulated...
by Scott Anderson | Jan 27, 2016 | Leadership, Workplace Issues
The efficacy of employee surveys for the majority of companies has been on a downward slide for some time now. For many organizations, frustration and futility are the primary associations with these annual or bi-annual surveys. That’s because the dominant perception...
by Scott Anderson | Jan 15, 2016 | Leadership, Workplace Culture
Remote workers are becoming an increasingly integral part of many organizations. In fact, I have the increase in remote work listed as one of my top workplace trends to watch in 2016. Research shows that as much as 40% of the U.S. workforce self-identifies as a...
by Scott Anderson | Jan 13, 2016 | Leadership, Playing Big, Workplace Culture
I’ve been thinking and writing a lot lately about the importance of employee satisfaction to the overall health of the organization. I think it’s one of the major trends that will define conversations about work and changes in how we work this year and beyond....
by Scott Anderson | Jan 8, 2016 | Leadership, Personal Enrichment, Workplace Culture
I recently wrote a blog about which management and organizational trends I think we will see continue to develop in 2016. I think one of the major overarching themes that ties many of these trends together is a serious focus on employee happiness. For years,...
by Scott Anderson | Dec 18, 2015 | Leadership, Workplace Culture
If you spent much time in 2015 reading about the future of work, you undoubtedly came across countless articles about millennials and why they are so entitled, lazy, passionate, difficult to work with, etc. The list goes on and on but the fact remains: millennials are...
