Mindset refers to attitudes, beliefs, and values which shape one’s perceptions, behaviors, and decision-making. A leader’s mindset can separate a great leader from a good one and an effective leader from a struggling one.
Leadership
Managing and Engaging a Multigenerational Retail Workforce
We’ve created a guide to help retail leaders better understand how to motivate and engage multigenerational teams. Download the guide for worksheets, expert advice, and more.
What Trends Will Impact Banking and Financial Services in 2023?
A possible recession, digital transformation, culture shifts, and leadership training needs will provide both challenges and areas of opportunities for banks and financial institutions in the future. In a recent interview, Graduate School of Banking President and CEO Kirby Davidson shared his insights into current trends in the banking and financial services industries and what executives will need to do to stay ahead of, and benefit from, these trends.
The Power of Mentorship and How to Make it Happen at your Organization
Research has shown mentorship increases employee engagement and satisfaction. While mentorships often happen naturally, the reality is, these tend to be two parties of the same gender or race; and while they feel good, they lack some of the benefits of diversity that organizations need to flourish. The good news is organizations can formalize mentorships without losing the authenticity that natural mentorship brings. Here is how to do it.
How Your Organization Can Benefit from Artificial Intelligence
Artificial intelligence sounds very futuristic. But the fact is that organizations, even those outside of the technology space, can benefit from the use of artificial intelligence (AI). Many organizations are already using AI to improve efficiency.
Culture Change Agents and Their Role in Transforming Organizations
Being an agent of change for an organization’s culture requires solid strategic and communications skills. Those experienced in helping organizations to change their culture confirm that it can be a massive undertaking.
Now is the Time to Focus on Upskilling and Reskilling Your Workforce
Business leaders, association leaders, and peer academic leaders need to collaborate on identifying, and filling, emerging skill gaps. This is your call to action.
5 Ways to Encourage Strategic Thinking
Strategic thinking may not come naturally to all your team members, but it is a skill you can help them develop.
Five Lessons for Executive Leaders
As we move to higher levels of the organization, it’s not always our job to make decisions – it’s our job to make sure decisions get implemented. This takes intentionality and an understanding that our “value” to the organization becomes more difficult to see. As with the transition from functional expertise to leadership expertise, our value goes from short-term wins and projects to long-term strategies that increase value to the organization over time.
Change Efforts Fail If Managers Are Poorly Prepared
Frontline managers often feel responsible for doing the heavy lifting of organizational change efforts. This “manager’s dilemma” is not a guarantee of failure. When managers embrace four specific roles related to change efforts, they can be more successful in moving a change forward.