The COVID-19 pandemic has changed our expectations of the leadership role. The swiftness of change and the uncertainty it inflicted on us has altered our values. We’re seeing leadership in a new light. Existing leaders now need to reassess their roles in response to the change. There are five major shifts…...
How company culture affects employee engagement
What is Employee Engagement? While many leaders think employee engagement surveys alone can improve their organization, CultureIQ’s decades of research show that improving overall culture is a far more effective way to improve business outcomes and propel growth. Employee engagement, while important, is a direct outcome of a strong company culture.…...
Scaling remote leadership
Remote working has been on a global upward trajectory, with the U.S alone witnessing a 103% increase over the last decade. In 2021, this growth will likely accelerate with organisations forced to limit physical interaction and scale up work-from-home alternatives. With remote working showing no signs of slowing down, leading and managing…...
How Finance Leaders Can Equip Their Team To Tackle Change
In the face of economic turmoil, agility has taken on a new meaning for organisations. For modern enterprises, agility has become a defining characteristic of businesses that can better anticipate what is coming, act quickly when faced with change, and more decisively respond to the demands of customers, market shifts,…...
What to Expect of Great Sales Leadership
“How do I build a great sales culture at my company?” I get that question often from small business owners. And what I always share is that it starts with your leaders. When hiring for sales leadership roles, you have to think well beyond just promoting an experienced account executive…...
Are You Getting the Best Out of Your Leadership Team?
Almost all successful organizations are grounded by a skillful and talented leadership team. But how can you ensure that your team leaders are hitting their full potential? If you want to get more out of your business, you have to get more out of your team. And that means investing…...
Are You the Leader Your Work Team Needs?
Being the leader of a work team is not only about distributing or assigning activities and waiting for progress to be reported, it goes much further than that. Today more than ever, being a leader represents a great challenge for the people who perform this role. Why? Because the generations…...
5 Pivotal Frontline Manager Skills to Hire For
Though 77 percent of executives say frontline managers are crucial in helping their business reach its goals, only 12 percent of executives actually invest in growing and developing frontline managers. How can you recruit the best candidates for the job and better develop their roles? We’re here to provide some insight with…...
15 Things Every Great Sales Manager Knows
What do you consider the greatest job in the world? Maybe I'm biased, but I'm convinced I have that job. Why? Here’s what I do every day: Talk with people who are actively engaged in sharing important information with me Figure out what makes those people “tick” Work with sales…...
Effective leadership skills: why would you want to be a leader?
Leadership is a tough gig. Taking up a leadership position is one of the toughest roles we can choose but many of us enter into it without giving much thought to whether we truly want or understand all that comes with it. For some of us, leading comes naturally. For…...
CEO Leadership During COVID-19
The coronavirus pandemic has been an epic test of character and determination for millions of people around the world. Nothing compares with the sacrifice of workers on the front lines in hospitals and other essential services. In the business context, CEOs have had to cope with extraordinary demands: for them, the…...
Focus on strengths to build high performing teams
The organisational practice of investing in those with potential and casting aside others who are deemed as not being able to grow is unsupported by evidence and can be harmful. Many of our youngest workers suffer from this because current tertiary education focuses strongly on developing technical skills but not…...
What If Your Assumptions About Your Culture Are All Wrong?
In our research, two-thirds of organizations that successfully changed their culture reported that they first gathered sentiment and related data from the workforce to understand how they viewed the existing culture and ascertain what they’d like the new culture to be. Too often the senior team assumes they know what…...
The toughest challenges facing CEOs: Post-pandemic leadership
This is the moment for strong, inspirational leadership. As businesses recover and rebuild themselves for the post-Covid world, the way in which CEOs lead the change will determine how successful they are. So how do you lead on the road to recovery? When we speak about rebuilding and recovery, this…...
How to Create an Inclusive Workplace Culture
Learn how to improve your organization by creating a diverse and inclusive workplace. Cultural inclusion starts from the top down. It is imperative that business leaders display inclusive behavior. Ask employees for feedback on how to improve your company's diversity and inclusion in the workplace. Cultural inclusion can improve your…...
5 Types of Executives Found at Thriving Organizations
Executives lead departments such as marketing, financing, legal, human resources, and administration, to name a few. At some stage, every organization needs to build its executive team in order to take its operations to the next level. An organization with a strong executive team is usually productive, creative, empowered, well-managed,…...
