by Ken Giffin | Sep 24, 2025 | leadership, strategic planning
While you might think end-of-year planning is still a couple of months away, now is actually the time to get started. That’s because creating a meaningful and measurable strategic plan requires more than just leadership’s input. By starting the process now, you’ll be...
by Ken Giffin | Sep 9, 2025 | career advice, corporate behavior, personal growth, self-improvement
I have run into many talented and accomplished people in the workplace who did not have strong self-awareness. In most cases, their issues of handling conflict or challenging office incidents were more destructive than productive and could have yielded much better...
by Ken Giffin | Aug 12, 2025 | career advice, corporate behavior, self-improvement, skills development
I’m going to start this blog post with my own cautionary tale of poor storytelling while interviewing for my first job many years ago. I was fortunate that the business school from my undergraduate days (Indiana University) had a strong recruiting organization that...
by Ken Giffin | Jul 17, 2025 | change management, employee engagement
We came across a 2023 Forbes article recently by Sherzod Odilov that addresses the resistance to change in the workplace. The author had worked with over 200 companies to help them manage change, and saw a common thread of employees hesitating over the uncertainty...
by Ken Giffin | Jun 18, 2025 | employee engagement, employee retention
A recent conversation with a leader who had just lost one of their superstar employees after five years of great contributions, made me stop and ponder this question: How well do you really know your employees and their overarching goals? In this case, leadership had...
