For leaders, keeping your workforce engaged and happy in 2025 is more than just the pay packet, working conditions, and benefits. The social contract between employers and employees has changed ...

Managers and employees need to have meaningful conversations. In professional collaborations, the reluctance to engage in challenging conversations can unravel the threads that bind a team together.

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Most of us don’t enjoy having difficult conversations, period — but when they involve someone from our own culture, we can usually rely on some basic shared assumptions about what the interaction ...

Many of the people I coach tell me, “If the conversation is difficult, people don’t open up to me.” I then ask, “How are you listening?” Source: lozochka/Dollarphotoclub Time is NOT the greatest gift ...