Employee training has moved beyond a “nice-to-have.” It has now become a “must-have.” There’s an increasing need for companies to invest in meaningful training for their people—a level of training that moves beyond technical skills and provides the kind of ongoing...

I am so grateful to those of you who tell me personally when we see each other that you enjoy this column, or write a note saying so. A few weeks back at a CivicCon event in Pensacola, Rhette Anderson shared that he likes the weekly column. He also said, “I don’t know...

How effective are you at attracting and recruiting talent? How effective are you at retaining talent? The two go hand in hand. If you’re effective in retention, it makes for much better attraction of talent. It means an organization has fewer spots to fill and can be...

Part Six of a Six-Part Series This column is the final installment of our six-part series on mental well-being. In the past weeks, we’ve covered a lot of territory on how leaders can assess mental health in the workplace and reduce the stigma associated with mental...

Part Five of a Six-Part Series Over the past month or so, we’ve been looking at how leaders can help organizations navigate stress, burnout, and trauma and refill their own emotional bank account as well as those of their employees. We’ve talked about the...

Part Four of a Six-Part Series Welcome back to our series on creating cultures of mental well-being in the workplace. Last week, we zeroed-in on the importance of empathetic leadership. As discussed, one of the key ways to become more empathetic is to focus on...

Part Three of a Six-Part Series Empathetic leadership has always been important. But it really matters right now. The COVID-19 pandemic and its fallout have created extreme, accelerated change in a very compressed time frame. People’s lives at work and at home have...

Part Two of a Six-Part Series We live and work in challenging times. The scope, pace, and intensity of change have been increasing for years, even decades, and bringing greater stress with them. Obviously, the upheaval brought about by the past year and a half has...

I have always had a lot of interest in mental health issues. For one thing, I’ve had my own struggles with alcoholism and depression. And after serving on the boards of Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation and TriHealth, I have seen for a while that there’s a great need for...

Leaders want to make real connections with employees. We know building solid relationships with those who report to us is vital. We’ve all heard that most employees don’t leave their job, they leave their boss. And the stronger this relationship is, the happier and...