Leadership and Team Building: Satisfy Short-Term Quarterly Goals or Plan for Long-term Sustainability?
The need for instant gratification and to show a profit no matter the cost to employees, society, or an organization’s welfare seems to be the motto in today’s business culture. Yet there are those few stellar organizations…and they are not all Fortune 500’s….that beg to differ. These companies invest in team building ideas that value […]
Can Your Company Win An Award For Ethics?
Early on in the history of TIGERS Success Series, we were tapped by the National Institute of Applied Business Ethics for creating a system that promotes ethics and cooperation in the workplace. Are you aware your company can now win an award recognizing you as one of the most ethical companies in the country? There […]
How Do Teams Juggle Assignments For National Guard Team Members?
How Do Teams Juggle Assignments For National Guard? Assigning team roles and goals to military active team members does not need to be a problem. The leading example of how to do it well is something Bank of America can be proud of. Bank of America has been named a 2013 Secretary of Defense Employer […]
Replace a Cut-Throat Work Culture with an Empathetic Culture To Spark Engagement
When you walk a mile in someone else’s shoes, you understand their situation, feelings, and motives. That’s empathy…and today’s corporations, leaders, and employees seem to come up short on this basic soft skill. Empathy is a skill important to building good workforce relationships. When individuals are empathetic, they recognize emotions being experienced by another, […]
Trust is a Key Ingredient Missing From Business Team Building
What is the definition of trust? According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary it is defined as having assured reliance on the character, ability, strength, or truth of someone or something. A pretty straightforward definition with very little room for misinterpretation. So why is trust so hard to come by these days to encourage team work in […]
Copyright Infringement Is A Big Risk for Executives
Is it OK to glean information off the internet to share with employees in your company. According to a recent study by the Copyright Clearance Center, Inc. (CCC), a not-for-profit organization creating global licensing and content solutions that make copyright work for everyone, the answer gives rise to concern. CCC recently announced key findings from […]
Are Women Leaders Still Slamming Into The Glass Ceiling?
An in-depth survey of women in leadership roles at the Am Law 100, the largest U.S. law firms, finds the glass ceiling largely intact. When I read reports like this I wonder whether women leaders in this position should launch out on their own? Why press your nose against the glass when collaboration could transpire […]
Have Good Intentions Killed Employee Values and Work Ethics?
Copyright TIGERS Success Series By Dianne Crampton Leaders strategize, make action plans, define goals, identify core values and tie behaviors to ethics with the best intentions for their organizations. Happens every day and in every company…right? But, what if these companies don’t revisit and re-evaluate policies set in stone from time to time? Or worse, […]
Beware the Narcissistic Employee – He’s All That and a Bag of Chips!
Copyright TIGERS Success Series By Dianne Crampton He’s suave, debonair, smartly dressed, and says all the right things you want to hear. Sound like the ideal date? Hardly… he is sitting right across from you at the interview table and could be your future employee from hell. In a recent post, I reported that as […]
Are Unethical Business Leaders Spawning the Next Generation of Toxic Leaders?
Copyright TIGERS Success Series By Dianne Crampton There has been an outpouring of reaction and response received from the NY Times editorial of “Why I am Leaving Goldman Sachs .” When executive director, Greg Smith blew the whistle on Goldman Sachs before retiring, he put in writing what most of us already knew. Greed rules the […]
