Archive | Leadership Development

There are several questions you’ll want to ask a wide range of people to understand a company’s culture. Here are eight you can use to start.

There are several strategies to negotiate compensation that you’ll want to use and actually work. In any case, always negotiate!

Job candidates are often unprepared for salary questions in interviews. Learn how to manage them with ease using five key strategies.

Pam McLean, PhD, of The Hudson Institute joins the Career Stewardship podcast with Michael Melcher and discusses how to coach yourself.

Rebecca Zucker joins the Career Stewardship podcast with Michael Melcher and discusses how to score better compensation packages.

Rebecca Zucker joins the Career Stewardship podcast with Michael Melcher and discusses how to make effective networking requests.

Rebecca Zucker discusses self-compassion with Kristin Neff, author of Self-Compassion: The Proven Power of Being Kind to Yourself.

Chip Conley joins the Career Stewardship podcast with Michael Melcher and discusses building a midlife career of meaning and relevance.

Rebecca Zucker discusses work overload with Erin Kelly and Phyllis Moen, professors at MIT and University of Minnesota.

Don’t skip your vacation to keep working. Instead, here are suggestions for experiences that will leave you refreshed and re-energized.

A podcast by Michael Melcher that offers best practices, stories from the field, and bite-sized tips to help build your career.

How your organization supports medically vulnerable employees needs to be a key part of your reopening plan.

The pandemic has resulted in many people with more emotional and cognitive fatigue than usual and good managers know they need to adjust.

Leaders understand the logic behind a layoff – this is the “thinking” part, but not everyone gets the “feeling” part right. As a leader, you need both.

Career stewardship is something that often gets deprioritized until something makes it more urgent. Now is the time to evaluate and invest in your career.

With a looming threat like COVID-19, an often overlooked aspect of leadership, self-management, becomes vital. Here are questions to get you started.

You know you need to do it. But your business development efforts are not happening or you’re not actually seeing results. Here’s what you can do about it.

Rebecca Zucker discusses how to assess the coachability of one of your leaders before engaging an executive coach.

How do you show leadership development ROI? Start with the realization you may be chasing a unicorn. Instead, there are four important questions you need to ask.