New managers and supervisors have a unique opportunity to build their own team of high performing and successful employees. But they need to now how. The answer is coaching.

Incivility is out of control. From raunchy reality TV to shameless shouters on cable news to raving wild-eyed parents at kid's sporting events, it's a rude race to the bottom of bad behavior. Not to mention what's coming out of Washington, talk radio and social media. A recent study reports that 70 percent of U.S. adults say incivility is at a crisis level.

The legal and financial risks of mishandling employee expense reimbursements have spiked in recent years. And the IRS is in the middle of a wide-ranging audit crackdown on employment-tax issues.

We all make silly writing mistakes. It's a virtual guarantee in today's fast-moving digital business world. Clean it up and improve your writing with ProWritingAid, a grammar checker, style editor, and writing mentor all in a single package. Exceptional writing requires more than just correct grammar. ProWritingAid's editing technology uses artificial intelligence to go way beyond grammar, helping you to enhance your style, better express your ideas, and reach new writing heights.

The 12min App is the perfect way to absorb tons of knowledge to accelerate your career. For $39, listen to or read 12-minute book summaries of hundreds of best-selling books.

In this course, you'll learn the entire, step-by-step blueprint the instructor uses to read over 300 book per year.

As aging Baby Boomers retire in large numbers, employers are seeing decades—if not centuries—of cumulative knowledge and skills walk out the door. If they have not prepared for those departures, organizations could end up with critical gaps in their talent and knowledge bases. To protect themselves...

Groucho Marx got it right when he said he did not want to belong to any club that would have him as a member. I feel much the same way about the inclusion mantra that is being parroted from corporate offices to nonprofit stalwarts and piggybacking on the diversity whale like a pilot fish. Diversity itself has...

As a business owner, you need to be ready for anything. You never know when you may be approached by investors offering growth capital or faced with a changing economic landscape that requires scaling your team up or down. To make sure you have...

This is the second Valentine’s Day since the #MeToo movement erupted in 2017, and these new survey results reveal that office romance is still alive and well. Despite organizational efforts to...

When economists and editorialists speak in worried tones about America’s “skills gap,” they’re referring to the mounting number of jobs that require some degree of technical know-how and the relative dearth of qualified candidates to fill them. For Traci Tapani...

Resistant “employees” don’t exist in the SEAL teams. Everyone is all in, every day. We have a learning culture that thrives on transparent peer-to-peer feedback. Personal and professional development are a regular occurrence. But when I transitioned into the civilian sector and became an entrepreneur, I had to quickly change my expectations...

Efficiency is crucial in most business operations and, in particular, manufacturing. Like judges in a footrace, consumers usually only care about the result of a production “run”—the product itself. They don’t want to know how many working hours it took to assemble it; they could care less about...

Science tells us that when each of us wakes up, our brain operates at 10.5 wave cycles per second. The first 20 minutes after we wake up is called the alpha stage.

Until now, our series has focused on tangible, measurable initiatives. In parts 1-3, we looked at how to systematically determine where the sales machine is "broken," how to get at the root cause of why it's broken, and how to create an effective roadmap for "fixing" it by moving the organization systematically along the Sales Maturity Curve. In this final article...

Grab your slate chalkboard and jot this down: “The old performance management model is dead.” But of course you don’t own a slate chalkboard, because its time has come and gone. And just as it no longer makes sense to use an antiquated method to take notes...