by Ken Giffin | Nov 12, 2024 | employee engagement, leadership, meeting management
We recently were part of a client meeting with a proposed new team structure approach – including “discussion” on how the team felt about the change. The change wasn’t drastic – but the change was something that would have an impact on a variety of team members and...
by Ken Giffin | Aug 26, 2024 | corporate behavior, employee engagement, leadership, meeting management
According to 2023 statistics, there were over 55 million meetings each week in the United States alone, and 71% of those meetings were designated as unproductive. That unproductivity causes an estimated $37 billion in costs each year! 55 million meetings each week 71%...
by Ken Giffin | Sep 26, 2023 | employee retention, leadership, mentoring, skills development
There is no doubt that mentoring programs are a successful tool in business. Consider some of the following 2023 statistics that support this stance from...
by Ken Giffin | Jul 10, 2023 | employee empowerment, leadership, personal growth
A recent Harvard Business Review article by Giulia Neri titled “The Leadership Odyssey” dives into the challenge of leaders rising through the ranks. To summarize: while moving up, leaders often find a more hands-on, directive leadership style is most effective....
by Ken Giffin | Mar 22, 2023 | corporate behavior, employee engagement, leadership, operational efficiency, productivity
A recent Harvard Business Review article 2023 titled “Beware a culture of busyness” captured our attention. The author provided a term social scientists call “time poverty” that refers to employees being increasingly focused on, and rewarded by, being busy. This...
by Ken Giffin | Oct 18, 2022 | leadership, personal growth
The average person can expect to spend 90,000 hours or more working during their career — which is a staggering number when you stop to think about it. A bigger question though is, “What do you have to show for it when you hit that final mark?” As a number of our...
