Archive | Leadership Development

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.

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.

A successful career requires occasionally taking a step back and looking at the big picture.

Most leaders are good talkers but not such great listeners. Real leadership depends on two key skills: listening effectively and asking powerful questions.