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Archive for category: Leadership
What is Your Leadership Mantra?
Karen Colligan, Leadership, Learning, Personalities, Professional and team leadership, leadership, personality types, 0One of the activities I often incorporate into the Leadership Workshops I facilitate is having each participant develop their...
Adapting Your Extraversion to the Introverts on Your Team
Karen Colligan, Communication, Diversity, Leadership, People, leadership, personality types, 0More than one-third of the world’s population are introverts, according to Susan Cain, author of Quiet: The Power of...
Lessons from Improv: “And” not “But”
Karen Colligan, Communication, Leadership, Life, Professional development, communication, leadership, 0One of the things I do in my business (and love to do) is speak to all sizes and...
Let’s Talk about Organizational Health
Karen Colligan, Engagement, Leadership, Life, Organizational health, People, Teams, Work-life balance, employee satisfaction, leadership, people, 0Personal health is a hot topic these days, with myriad applications and devices to record our steps, our calories,...
Invest in Your People – Invest in Your Future
Karen Colligan, Engagement, Leadership, People, Performance, Professional development, Succession planning, Uncategorized, bench strength, employee satisfaction, leadership, people, 0Employee engagement has been a hot topic for awhile now, with some pretty staggering statistics around engaged vs. disengaged...
Succession Planning – Not a Nice-to-Have, a MUST-HAVE
Karen Colligan, Career planning, Leadership, Professional development, Succession planning, leadership, strategy, 0Companies succeed in large part because of strong leadership. Yet, according to a recent succession planning survey by Human...
Attention Interviewers: No One Is Perfect!
Karen Colligan, Interviewing, Job search, Leadership, People, interview, job search, people, 0The job interview process has turned into the “perfection process.” It used to be that if you had 80%...
Recognizing the Value Millennials Bring to the Workplace
Karen Colligan, Communication, Leadership, Management, Multi-generational workforce, People, Teams, communication, people, professional and team leadership, 0In the past couple of blogs we’ve looked at Baby Boomers and Generation Xers in the workplace and how...
Managing Generation Xers in the Multi-Generation Workplace
Karen Colligan, Communication, Diversity, Leadership, Multi-generational workforce, People, Teams, communication, people, professional and team leadership, team diversity, 0If you read my last blog (which of course you did!) you now have a better idea of how...
Professional/Career Development – Key to Keeping Your Employees Engaged
Karen Colligan, Career, Engagement, Leadership, People, Professional development, Career, leadership, people, 0Now would be a brilliant time for organizations to be thinking about how to engage their employees, and keep...
Want to Succeed as a Leader? Cultivate your Emotional Intelligence!
Karen Colligan, Communication, Leadership, People, Professional and team leadership, Uncategorized, communication, Emotional Intelligence, leadership, people, 1We’ve all experienced them. Those bosses who are incredibly good at the business or technical side of their role...