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By Evan Hackel An excerpt from my new book Ingaging Leadership Meets the Younger Generation Members of older generations generally are generally cautious, and often observe organizational hierarchies before proposing ambitious plans within their organizations. Why? Because they have been taught to do so in their professional lives. And they are generally cautious. In contrast,…
Many companies do not consider training when they are making long-range strategic plans. Some do include training in their planning, but don’t inform their training departments until afterwards. What a mistake. Training is critical when launching new initiatives. That is another way of saying, it is essential for growth and progress. When training has become…
Have you or colleagues at work ever made a statement like this? “It’s total chaos around here today” It’s something we have all said at work at one point or another, usually when we can’t keep up with our workload. But we also know that when chaos reigns (and even when people in a company…
Do great athletic coaches and great trainers use the same strategies to get people to grow, exceed their own expectations, and succeed? We think they do. And a recent article that was published by Competitive Advantage supports that opinion. The article, “What Makes a Good Coach?”, outlines some winning traits of top athletic coaches. We…
When I was starting out in my career, I was comfortable with the idea that I would get promoted after “learning the ropes,” making mistakes, and moving upward gradually. Most often, I would get feedback about my performance only when I went into a job review session with my boss. In those sessions, I would…
Martin Luther King Day 2019 has come and gone. Hopefully, it provided you with an opportunity to reflect on many important issues – Dr. King’s legacy, the history of the civil rights movement, and more. But we would all be missing the point if we only tried to consider how Dr. King’s lessons apply to…
As we put up this post today, Evan Hackel is skiing in Canada. We have taken the liberty of publishing this excerpt from his book Ingaging Leadership. It has to do with skiing, but so much more I love to ski. I actually love skiing through groves of trees. The trick to successfully skiing in…
Keeping employees from quitting their jobs after only a year or two is becoming a bigger challenge for many businesses across the county. Is it a problem for you? One recent article, “The New Reality of Employee Loyalty” that Peter K. Murdock wrote for Forbes, suggests that in order to keep new employees, companies should…
By Evan Hackel If you say the word “attitude” to people in the training community, most of us will think about presenters who burst into a room and try to knock trainees over with high bursts of energy. That’s not a bad image. Energy is absolutely part of attitude. Yet attitude is a lot more…
I’m an executive who was born before 1980. Are you too? If so, I believe we have something in common . . . We worry about supervising millennial workers Some managers our age are even scared to work with millennials. We don’t need to be. In my experience, the key to leading millennials is to…
