Let’s Do an Experiment Go into any search engine and type in “business negotiation” – you’ll learn a lot about negotiating contracts, getting the best deal for your company, and finding win-win solutions. Now try … [Read more...]
About Joshua Cole
Earning Employee Input to Improve Engagement & Innovation
Look around you – are your colleagues yawning through meetings? Are your employees checking their Facebooks? Are managers playing Tetris on their iPhones? The American workplace has an engagement problem. When 600 … [Read more...]
High-Performance Performance Reviews: How to Improve (or Replace) the Annual Review
Let's take a moment to consider all the great things about yearly performance reviews. ... Nothing? Really? You don't look forward to them even a little bit? Well, you're not alone. Lately, Fortune 500 companies have … [Read more...]
Chill Out: How to Work Less and Get More Done
If you're the average American, you're working a 47 hour work week. And one out of three workers don't even take a lunch break. On top of that, unused vacation time has reached a 40-year high – that's over $52 billion in … [Read more...]
Efficient Communication: How to Say More with Less
Not Enough Time in the Day We spend 45 minutes of every hour communicating in one way or another. This isn't a bad thing: leaders need to communicate their intentions as clearly as they hear and understand their … [Read more...]
Trinity Syndrome in the Workplace & How to Avoid It
Ashley was one of the best managers I ever had. She was my age, about half my size, and more driven than anyone I'd ever met. At the time that was difficult for me to understand, considering we worked for a coffee shop. For … [Read more...]
Equality is Easy: A Guide for the Office Gentleman
Here at Progressive Women's Leadership, we're pretty excited that women are taking on more and more leadership roles in the American workplace. The more women are represented, the closer we'll come to the equality women have … [Read more...]
What to Do When a Male Subordinate Goes Over Your Head
Your male subordinate – we'll call him George – disagrees with your plan for the new campaign. When you made it clear that you'd made your decision, and maybe even why, he nodded and left your office. Problem over, … [Read more...]
Lead Furiously: Women’s Leadership Lessons from Mad Max Fury Road
I did not care about Mad Max until Men's Right's Activists started boycotting it. The enemy of my enemy is my friend, I figured, so I started looking into it. The more I read, the more excited I got - by all reports, it … [Read more...]