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...
by Ken Giffin | Aug 24, 2022 | employee empowerment, leadership, operational efficiency, productivity
A recently overheard leadership story grabbed our attention. It started out as a normal tale of business challenges and “fire drills” taking up everyone’s attention and time. However, as the story kept going, the focus from the leader was to place blame on team...
