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What Creates a High-Trust Work Environment

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Trust has dramatic business implications for the workplace. With a high level of trust, people feel free to express and share their ideas; communication and collaboration can happen quickly; and innovation and productivity are handsome results. In this Executive Edge, the focus is on ways that trust can be embedded within an organization – in […]
Develop Company Agility

Successful company growth relies on learning by doing and adapting quickly to rapidly changing conditions. In this Executive Edge, we look into the need to stay agile in order to keep your business viable and competitive. Topics include the role of design, streamlining processes, aligning strategic efforts, and leadership advice on how to pause to […]
Cultivate Autonomy Within Your Workforce

Letting people use their knowledge, experience and motivation empowers them to take on more responsibility as they grow and develop. This Executive Edge delves into how to empower your people, the psychological needs for autonomy, making choice an option and understanding that managers have a dual role. It all adds up to proof that when […]
Managing Difficult People in Difficult Situations

It can be very challenging to handle the disappointment of when you set expectations for someone else and they don’t live up to them. It happens to everyone. This Executive Edge will be helpful for managers but also for anyone who is forced to address a difficult person in their lives. Topics include adopting the […]
Unleash the Power of the Front Line

It makes sense to empower the employees on the front line and encourage them to use their judgment in handling any problems that they encounter. As we learn in this issue of Executive Edge, this delegation of power frees managers to pursue the growth of the company, gives the frontline employees a sense of ownership, […]
Tune In to Your Employees’ Needs

When a company puts its employees first, the outcome is hard-working, happy employees who then treat customers in a winning way. This Executive Edge examines what putting employees first means as far as recognition, belonging, culture, feedback and coaching. The proven benefits are many if you are able to tune in to your employees’ needs.
Build a Workforce That Aligns Differences

To meet the needs of your company, it is valuable to have cooperative strategies in which people leverage each other’s strengths and are bonded together by a sense of belonging. When people are encouraged and supported to do their best work individually and collectively, your company wins. In this Executive Edge, you’ll learn how beneficial […]
What Winning Companies Do

Companies that have done well, continue to do well, and seem to be set to do well in the future are enviable indeed. What positions them to be successful? This issue of Executive Edge looks at some of the characteristics that have made the difference in the ascension of many familiar big-name companies. Consideration is […]
Advice on Managing Others

Transitioning from one work level to a higher one often necessitates putting aside the skills that made you successful thus far in order to face new challenges that demand the quick adoption of new skills. In this Executive Edge, the focus is on these kinds of transitions and how to successfully make them. First-time and […]
Transform Your Employees Into Experts

A proactive strategy that can benefit companies is to help employees develop their skills and build new ones in order to keep up with changes in their industry. This Executive Edge offers suggestions on how to encourage employees to learn, build expertise, and become great leaders. It also includes a piece on how you can […]
Clear a Path For Creativity

Creativity can give a business a competitive edge because it involves individuals having the ability to visualize things in totally different or better ways. A company’s future and profitability rely on its ability to innovate and innovation depends on creativity. With this in mind, this Executive Edge looks at ways to nurture creativity within your […]
Drive Company Reinvention

Businesses who choose to cling to the past may be choosing to become obsolete. Change has become essential in order to stay profitable. This Executive Edge considers what it will take from you and your employees to reinvent your company: to make room for continuous innovation, constantly make changes, build and sustain motivation to lead […]

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The Edge

What Creates a High-Trust Work Environment

Develop Company Agility

Cultivate Autonomy Within Your Workforce

Managing Difficult People in Difficult Situations

Unleash the Power of the Front Line

Tune In to Your Employees’ Needs

Build a Workforce That Aligns Differences

What Winning Companies Do

Advice on Managing Others

Transform Your Employees Into Experts

Clear a Path For Creativity

Drive Company Reinvention

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