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You can make meetings much more valuable and effective -- and have high-performance and mindful meetings. Use these steps to bring more creativity and emotional intelligence to the table.

Over the years, I’ve traveled for business a lot — sometimes alone, but often with colleagues. One time, I found myself traveling with a colleague I didn’t know very well....

As a small-business owner, trying to maintain a work-life balance can be like walking on a tightrope. At any given moment you have to lean one way or the...

Budget cuts and hiring freezes. Regulatory headaches, stalled initiatives, or the loss of a well-loved leader. Sound familiar? If so, rest assured, you are not alone. In over a decade's...

If you are like me as a child you grew up under the premise of "sticks and stones may break my bones, but names will never hurt me." The...

Many organizations deal with employees that do not perform to standards. One of the most frustrating things for managers and supervisors is to have employees who continually repeat the...

There are seemingly endless ways a company can find itself dealing with legal issues and more particularly in a situation where litigation is involved. Here are some of the...

Succession planning done right sets the growth course. It aligns with talent processes, mends gaps and develops future leaders for success.

The best defense against an unnamed elephant trampling your team's performance is to agree to rules of engagement.

Being open-minded to looking outside of your defined criteria or even your industry can yield a more diverse but equally qualified short list, and may result in a better fit between the successful candidate and your organization.

Behaving appropriately emotionally is not only something that can be learned over a lifetime, but it is something that must be learned if we are to live happy and productive lives. Furthermore, it is essential to successful leadership.

Employers need to determine if they want to face the risk of having a pool in the workplace and, if so, among other considerations, should assure any such pool should not be conducted for value.

Although you may want your staff to have positive feelings toward you, being the boss means doing what’s right for the company — and that sometimes means making unpopular decisions.

When striving to get ahead, try to recognize how easy it is to go off course, forgetting that success and fame are not what matters most. Remember that in the end, family is what is most important.

As businesses evolve and their space and location needs shift, corporate leaders need to understand when and how to manage substantial real estate change. In this second of two articles, real estate consultant Emery Matthews of Real Estate Interests LLC explores strategies, transactions, location and market considerations.

Getting ready for a presentation or other high-profile even? It turns out that changing just one word in your self-talk can make all the difference in how confident you are.

In "Time Bandit," author Edward G. Brown eloquently outlines a solution to the distractions that those around us (ourselves included) create every day.

In a rebounding market, many entrepreneurs are settling on brick and mortar sites. Negotiating that first lease for your growing business is crucial. When caught in an unfavorable lease, a business can be doomed before it even begins. Here are expert tips to get it right.

You can be good, maybe even very good, at what you do without having tremendous passion for it. But to be great, you must excel with unrelenting fire. This is the fourth in a series from “Fearless Leaders--Sharpen Your Focus” by TC North.

How you can be more creative, a better problem solver and wiser in your decisions by being mindful. This is the third of four parts from the best-seller  “Fearless Leaders – Sharpen Your Focus” by TC North.