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A new CEO took over the reins of a small manufacturing company in a rural community in Minnesota. She was tasked with turning the company around and rebuilding the executive leadership team.

Management talent exists in every company. It’s often hiding in plain sight. Gallup has found that one of the most important decisions companies make is simply whom they name manager. Yet our analytics suggest they usually get it wrong. In fact, Gallup finds that companies fail to choose the candidate with the right talent for […]

Straight up and honestly, the last five or six managers I’ve had have been somewhere from “horrific” to “OK periodically.” No one has been great. The reasons can vary — most of the time it involves simple communication, but sometimes it does involve the idea of micro-managing, or expecting things an exact specific way even […]

– Great managers create the right environment for engagement
– Only 30% of U.S. employees, and 13% worldwide, are engaged
– Good news: management talents exists in every company

Whether you own a business or you’re spending most of your time on your nine-to-five, leadership skills have never been more important for one simple reason: so many more of us are on our own. Last year the percent of Americans working from home nearly doubled from 22% to 42%, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

The need for leadership development has never been more urgent. Companies of all sorts realize that to survive in today’s volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous environment, they need leadership skills and organizational capabilities different from those that helped them succeed in the past. There is also a growing recognition that leadership development should not be restricted to […]