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Leadership Development

7 Inspiring Leadership Podcasts to Add to Your Listening List

19 Jun 2019

When you’re the one your team looks to for guidance and inspiration, who do you turn to? We should all have a few mentors in our lives – but for everyday inspiration, it’s nice to bring in some outside perspectives. Recently, podcasts have grown quite a bit in popularity. What I like about this [...]

Talent Management

Can You Fix a Toxic Work Culture Without Firing Your Team?

12 Jun 2019

We’ve all been there in our careers. One day, you look around and realize something just feels wrong. The tension between employees can be cut with a knife. The tone of certain people’s voices seems strikingly insincere. The mood in the office seems joyless. In my career, I’ve experienced a [...]

Leadership Development

6 Powerful Lessons From TED Talks About Leadership

22 May 2019

We all need a little inspiration from time to time. On mornings when I feel like a cup of coffee won’t cut it, I’ve found that watching a TED Talk can really energize me for the day. While it’s easy to let an hour go by with these quick and powerful presentations, a few of […]

Leadership Development

Surprising Leadership Lessons from Jazz

15 May 2019

No two ‘regular days’ in any organization are truly the same. As leaders, it’s part of our job description to expect the unexpected—resignations, lost clients, critical errors, even situations we never imagined possible. Organizations are living things, and as with all living things, change is [...]

Business Spotlight

How People Analytics Can Change Process, Culture, and Strategy

24 Apr 2019

When you read ‘people analytics’, does your heart sink? Often, when we talk about people analytics we think of the missed opportunities. Turnover rate, exit surveys, and disengaged employees often take up more than their fair share of space in these conversations. As tools for collecting [...]

Human Resources Consulting

4 Digital HR Trends Shaping the Workforce

9 Apr 2019

The world as we know it has gone digital. The proof sits before you as your eyes scan over this page. Yet, over three decades into this digital revolution, many of the core processes of established organizations remain analog. There are times when this is appropriate. We might agree that a [...]

Leadership Development

It’s Time for a New Discussion on “Women in Leadership”

20 Mar 2019

While most companies claim that gender diversity is a high priority, statistics tell a different story for working women. Globally, women have more access to education and more social mobility than ever before. If education and ambition were the sole indicators of leadership, every second [...]

Business Spotlight

ETG’s Top 10 Must-Read Books About Women in Leadership

8 Mar 2019

From the #MeToo movement to exciting shifts in political leadership, the past year has been groundbreaking for women. The gender dynamic, while still imperfect, feels a little different than it did just a few short years ago. Slowly but steadily, we seem to be moving ever closer to gender [...]

Human Resources Consulting

Is Your Company Culture Helping or Hindering Employees from Speaking Up?

13 Feb 2019

Regardless of our role, we all want to work with people who truly value our input. As leaders, it’s our responsibility to craft workplaces which promote a “speak up culture” where everyone feels supported enough to express their opinions, and where they can be confident that their contributions [...]

Talent Management

How to Motivate Your Most Creative Employees

7 Feb 2019

Within any team or organization there are going to be team members who consistently come up with unique and effective methods of getting things done. Whether that’s identifying how to streamline an existing process or coming up with a new method of achieving a goal, some individuals have a [...]