Here are nationally published articles written by Joel Garfinkle. They provide practical, “how-to” information and insights to help you become a leader, boost your career success, or develop effective leaders within your organization. The advice in these articles will help you master the essential qualities of executive presence.
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Advance Your Career
- Boost Career Advancement Opportunities for Women, Minorities, & Introverts
- 4 Ways to Get Ahead in Your Company
- Gain Competitive Advantage – 6 Essential Secrets
- Podcast Interview – Getting the Recognition You Deserve
- Mentors on Steroids: How Advocates Advance Your Career
- Tips on Career Advancement
- 5 Keys to Advancing Your Career During Difficult Economic Times
- Podcast Interview – Getting Ahead
- How to get ahead: 5 questions for Joel Garfinkle
- Somebody, help, I’m stuck: Why you’re not advancing
How to Be a Great Boss
Why do good people quit their jobs? According to a Gallup poll, bad bosses are at the top of the list. So what does it take to be a good boss? Check out the articles in this section to learn how you can become a better boss and keep your employees motivated and happy.
- 7 Essentials for Training & Developing Happy Employees
- 3 steps for protecting your most important asset
- Stop solving your employees’ problems
- Trademarks of a great boss: Provide growth opportunities
- Why Talent Development in Business Matters
- Men and Women in Leadership – Helping Their Employees Succeed
- People Don’t Walk Out of Companies, They Walk Out on Managers
- Tip: How Managers Can Improve Employees Workplaces
- Memo to managers: How to use the accountability factor to boost performance
- 3 Ways To Retain And Engage Your Valuable Employees
- Why Employees Leave Their Managers
- Are you a first-time boss? Avoid these 4 pitfalls
- 3 Positive Reactions to Your Employees When Not Meeting Expectations
- The great boss as a visionary leader
- Let your stars shine: Why your team needs a coach, not a manager
- Make feedback a constant experience
- Empower Your People
Build Positive Work Relationships
Making the best of your work situation is important if you want to feel satisfied in your career or have aspirations to advance up the corporate ladder. Building positive work relationships can not only help you enjoy going to work every day, but position you to advance and gain recognition for your accomplishments. Joel Garfinkle, who has written extensively on how to develop effective leaders, discusses common hindrances to positive workplace relationships and provides you with practical leadership development tips that will teach you how to make the best of any situation.
- Building Positive Relationships at Work
- Coping With Critical Coworkers
- Five Guidelines for Improving Relationships With Difficult Co-Workers
- Gossip in the Workplace
- 6 Strategies to Building a Stronger Team
- Lessons on Teamwork from Really Bad Team Members
- 10 steps to positive work relationships
Executive Presence
Do your leaders have executive presence? If they don’t, how can they get it? They can’t realize their full potential as a leader without it. But the good news is that executive presence can be learned. These articles show employees how to convey confidence, command respect, and exude a professional magnetism that influences others. You’ll learn new strategies on how to come across with conviction, be assertive, and lead with gravitas.
- 25 Must-Read Executive Presence Articles That Will Inspire & Guide You
- 17 Tactics to Speak Up & Enhance Your Executive Presence Communication
- The Behaviors Undermine Executive Presence? Survey Research Reveals Top 8
- Executive Presence & Emotional Intelligence
- 10 Key Work Situations Where Building an Executive Presence Matters
- Executive Presence for Leaders
- Executive Presence & Gravitas: Show Up with Confidence, Command, & Charisma
- Understanding Executive Presence Involves Gravitas, Authority, & Expression
- Top 8 Executive Presence Tips
- Maximize Your Executive Presence Strengths and Address Your Weaknesses
- 5 Ways Executive Presence Shapes Professional Success
- 3 Critical Steps to Craft an Executive Presence Development Plan
- How to Develop Executive Presence
- Gain Leadership Presence with 3 Critical Behaviors
- How to Improve Executive Presence
- Executive Presence Assessment & Evaluation
- Poor Executive Presence? What’s Holding You Back?
- Executive Presence for Women Leaders | How to Get it
- Executive Presence and Influence
- What Does Executive Presence Look Like in Action?
- Executive Presence Quiz/Questionnaire | How Do You Show Up?
- Learn How To Have Executive Presence | 3 Steps
- 9 Helpful Executive Presence Discussion Questions
- Executive Presence Framework | Key for Success
- 7 Ways to Show Executive Presence Over the Phone
- What you must know about Executive Presence on Zoom
- Executive Presence in Virtual Meetings
- Tips to Radiate Executive Presence on Video Conference Calls
- Executive Presence for CEOs: Why You Need It
- Executive Presence & Leadership Presence Exercises
- 7 Steps to Executive Presence for Sales Leaders
- Executive Presence Statistics
- Developing Executive Presence on LinkedIn
How to Retain Employees
Learn the best tactics to motivate your employees, sustain engagement and retain your most valuable employees. The high employee turnover cost will impact the bottom line when you are unable to keep your top talent. Learn the most valuable ways to appreciate and recognize your employees by applying these tips on leadership development.
- Employee Retention tactics
- Employee Retention & Promotion
- Employee Retention Bonus
- Employee Motivation & Retention
- Executive leadership development program
- 3 Ways To Retain And Engage Your Valuable Employees
- The No. 1 way to retain great employees: Stay interviews
- Employee Retention Survey
- Employee Retention
Succession Planning
What will you do the next time someone in your company gets sick or jumps ship? Are you prepared? A good succession plan can motivate present and future superstars as well as helping you avoid the financial impact of losing good people. A clearly defined succession plan helps prepare and develop effective leaders for advancement or promotion.
- Succession Planning System
- Succession Planning Organization
- Planning Succession Tool
- Succession Planning Assessment
Managing Human Capital
The landscape of human capital management is undergoing rapid and dramatic change. Developing strategies to deal with these changes will be the key to your profitability in the years ahead. Learn how to manage your aging workforce, recruit top talent, and retain and grow the superstars of today and tomorrow. These articles will show you how to avoid costly mistakes and thrive on the challenges you face.
- Human Capital Management – What is it?
- 7 Alarming Future Trends in Human Capital & How to Manage Them
- 9 Powerful Benefits to Managing Human Capital
- Executive leadership development program
- Grow your Human Capital by Identifying Four Critical Success Factors in Recruitment
- Planning Succession Tool
- Why Talent Development in Business Matters
- Human Capital Crises & Danger for America’s Future
- Succession Planning Assessment
- The smart creative: How to spot them, how to use them
- Is your trust factor slipping? 5 tips to increase employee trust
- Developing Leadership Skills
Business Intelligence and Company Strategy
Business intelligence is understanding how your company does business and how it can be a more effective organization. This involves such things as improving how your department is run, working smarter, understanding your customers’ and clients’ needs, seeing how you can differentiate yourself from your competition and partnering more effectively with others.
- 7 Strategies to Define your Competitive Advantage
- Know Your Company’s Strategy
- Six Traps That Destroy Collaboration
- 6 Ways to Get Customer Feedback to Improve Your Service Brand
- Fostering Innovation in the Workplace
- 6 Ways to Create a Credit-Sharing Company Culture
- Power of an Engaged Workforce
- 7 Tips to Prevent Change Management Failure
- 3 Strategies to Build a Team of Relationships
- 7 Saboteurs of Business Success
Talent Development
Grow future senior leaders. Develop high-potential employees. Build a leadership pipeline. This is talent development and it’s a necessity to maintain a competitive advantage for your organization. You’ll learn the best tactics to motivate, engage and retain your most valuable employees.
- Utilize Executive Coaching as a Talent Management Tool
- Minority Talent Development – Win the Human Capital War
- Talent development – Increase Your Job Value
- 7 Steps to Choose a Top Consultant to Manage & Motivate Your Talent
Improve Productivity and Efficiency
Learning how to manage your time for optimal effectiveness is an essential component of feeling good about the work you are able to accomplish everyday. Check out the following articles to learn how you can improve your productivity and efficiency by managing your time, getting organized, eliminating time wasters and properly delegating tasks!
- Making Time for Important Long-Term Projects
- 14 Ways to Increase Productivity
- Be more productive with these tech tips
- Manage Time and Get Organized
- Increased Effectiveness on Projects
- Efficient Use of Your Time
- Avoid Time Traps
- How to Delegate Effectively
- Stop Wasting Time
- Five Ways to Create More Time at Work
Keep Your Employees Happy
Future trends in human capital indicate that retaining the loyalty of top talent is key to leadership development. Happy employees are a key ingredient to creating a healthy business. But with a variety of temperaments and personalities to deal with, how do you make your workplace environment a place where employees are engaged and satisfied to help achieve the goals of the company? In the following articles, Joel Garfinkle identifies proven strategies and practices to increase productivity by increasing employee job satisfaction.
- Keep Your Employees Happy
- Ten Ways to Keep Your Star Employees
- How to Keep Your Top Talent
- Give employees what they need
- 7 Essentials for Training & Developing Happy Employees
- Men and Women in Leadership – Helping Their Employees Succeed
- Highly Engaged Workplace
- How to Find and Mentor Future Company Leaders
- People Don’t Walk Out of Companies, They Walk Out on Managers
- Tip: How Managers Can Improve Employees Workplaces
- How to Train Employees to Be Critical Thinkers
- Achievement Awards – Celebrating & Honoring Valuable Employees
- Why Employees Leave Their Managers
- The No. 1 way to retain great employees: Stay interviews
Women in Leadership
Women leaders represent a real competitive advantage for companies. An organization has to focus on advocating for women to occupy more leadership roles. These articles will help you make the development of women leaders a top priority.
- Smashing through the Glass Ceiling: Three Career-Advancing Strategies for Women and Minorities
- What Women Leaders in Every Business and Industry Need to Know to Survive
- Three Ways of Recognizing Women Business Leaders for Greater Profits
- Women in Leadership – Using Coaching to Take Charge of Growth
- The Business of Placing Women in Leadership
- How Women Entrepreneurs Enrich their Lives and Businesses with Coaching
- Women in Leadership
Build and Manage Great Teams
Building strong intrapersonal relationships within your team creates a work environment that is more conducive to working together and getting things done. These articles show you how to develop and manage strong teams. You’ll learn how to foster teamwork, create more team engagement and improve communication between employees.
- Celebrate mistakes: Creating a culture of forgiveness
- 3 Strategies to Build a Team of Relationships
- 6 Strategies to Building a Stronger Team
- Lessons on Teamwork from Really Bad Team Members
Create Work-Life Balance
Coping with the pressures and stress of work can take a tremendous toll on your life if you don’t take control. But how do you set boundaries that enable you to have a satisfying work life and personal life without appearing uncooperative at work? In the following articles, Joel Garfinkle helps you establish a healthy work-life balance for increased satisfaction in every area of your life.
- Bring Your Work and Life Into Balance
- Are You Suffering from Burnout at Work?
- Four Ways to Say No At Work
- Reduce Your Workload
- Top 10 Ways to Set Boundaries
- Workaholism
- Balance Work and Play
- Work Hard No More
- Want to Live Longer? Take Your Vacation
- Unshakable Confidence During Shakable Times
- How to Eliminate Stress from Your Life
- How to Disconnect from Work and Enjoy Your Vacation
- Podcast interview – How to Unplug at Work and Be on Vacation?
The Rush Syndrome
Are you feeling overwhelmed? Do you frequently find yourself getting impatient with other people? Do you feel like there is no way you can possibly get everything done? If so, you just might be suffering from rush syndrome.
- Are you suffering from “rush” syndrome? Take this 7-point quiz
- The “rush syndrome”: How it affects your health and your job
- Feeling rushed? Break the habit of hurry and overwhelm
- The fear of slowing down
Get Promoted at Work
These articles can help you jumpstart your career and make you stand out from the corporate crowd. You’ll learn valuable, proven strategies you can begin using today to get the promotion you deserve.
- How to Get a Promotion
- Are You Ready For a Promotion? 4 Questions to Ask Yourself
- Two Questions The Most Successful Ask
- The Importance of Updating Your Resume to Ask for a Promotion
- Smashing through the Glass Ceiling: Three Career-Advancing Strategies for Women and Minorities
- Get Paid What You’re Worth
- Five Ways to Set Up Promotions for Success
Stand out and Get Noticed
Learn the best strategies to stand out, be noticed and get ahead at work by reading the following articles on leadership communication. You’ll not only learn how to be seen as an up-and-coming star at work, but gain more satisfaction as you put into practice these tips that will help you advance up the corporate ladder.
- Stand Out! Seven Ways to Increase Your Visibility at Work
- One Simple Technique to Appear More Competent at Work
- How do I Assert Myself at Work?
- 10 Ways to Increase Visibility in Meetings
- Ask For What You Want at Work and Get It
- Speak Up at Work to Enhance Your Work Career and Job Advancement
- Six Tips for Building Your Own Brand
- Feeling Equal to Someone Senior to You
- Bringing New Ideas to Life
- Increase Your Job Security by Increasing Your Visibility
- Don’t Make Your Work Look Too Easy
- 6 Tips to Increase Your Visibility at Work Without Self-Promoting
- Blow your own horn: does senior management know how valuable you are?
- If you were replaced, would anyone notice?
- Women in Leadership
Managing difficult conversations
Work communication is not always easy. Difficult people and difficult subjects both require extra sensitivity and special handling. The articles in this section will help you improve your relationships with difficult people and demonstrate empathy when delivering bad news.
- How to have difficult workplace conversations that produce positive results
- Five Guidelines for Improving Relationships With Difficult Co-Workers
Power of Perception
People constantly are forming opinions of you based on how you act, what you do, and how you behave at work. These impressions have a direct impact on how you are perceived. Perception management is vital to your professional success. If you don’t take control of how others see you, you will undermine both your career and your future success. People will form opinions about you without any input from you. You can’t leave the fate of your career in someone else’s hands.
- Transforming Perceptions: 10 Steps to Managing the Way You Are Perceived at Work
- Top 5 Ways to Assess Your Work Ethics on the Job
- Do I Dare Say Something? How to be Assertive at Work
- Perception is Reality: 8 Steps for Changing How Others See You
Exert Your Influence
With influence, you move organizations forward and change outcomes for the better. You motivate, arouse interest, and sway others to do what is deemed important. You are depended on and seen as a difference maker who has the courage to make tough and important decisions. Without influence, your career stalls and comes to a standstill. You must have the courage to make an impact and be influential. Read the following articles on leadership communication and learn how to influence others in and outside of your organization.
- 5 Traits All Influential Leaders Possess
- 3 Surprising Ways to Influence Your Employees
- 5 Ways to Be a More Influential Leader
- Podcast Interview – 3 Ways to Increase Your Influence
Conduct Productive Meetings
The majority of workers cite meetings as the most frustrating and unproductive part of their week. And it’s no wonder since many meetings really aren’t necessary and serve as time-wasting formalities. Joel Garfinkle, who has written dozens of articles on leadership communication, tells you how you can make the most of meetings.
Provide Quality Employee Feedback
Learn how you can provide quality feedback that gets results. The following articles on leadership communication by Joel Garfinkle explain why quality feedback is so important to obtaining quality work from your employees—and—increasing employees’ satisfaction with their work. In addition, providing quality feedback to employees is crucial to developing effective leaders within your organization. Future trends in human capital point to the need for a stronger, deeper leadership pipeline to navigate today’s business climate.
Utilize Executive Coaching for Career Success
Executive coaches are to business professionals what master musicians are to aspiring performers: they guide the thriving careers of their clients to help them reach the peak of their abilities. If you want to overcome your leadership shortcomings, fulfill your executive potential or advance up the corporate ladder quickly, hiring an executive coach may prove to be one of the strongest career moves you could ever make.
- 3 Areas That Business Leaders Learn from Consulting with an Executive Coach
- Utilize Executive Coaching as a Talent Management Tool
- 7 Steps to Choose a Top Consultant to Manage & Motivate Your Talent
- Women in Leadership – Using Coaching to Take Charge of Growth
- 5 Signs that You’re Ready for an Executive Leadership Coach
- What Can You Expect from Executive & Corporate Coaching? Results!
- 3 Questions to Ask Before Investing in an Executive Coaching Program
- Six Hidden Benefits of Leadership Coaching
- Business Leadership Coaching
- 3 Signs that Your Company Needs an Executive Coaching Consultant
- Leadership & Executive Coaching
- Leadership Coaching – Executive Training & Development
- Two Sources to Build Company Success with Corporate Coaching
- How Executive Coaching Can Help Your Family Business
- 3 Reasons to Invest in Leadership Development
- The Four Kinds of People that Must Use Executive Coaching In Denver
- How Women Entrepreneurs Enrich their Lives and Businesses with Coaching
- Exploit More Career Changes in Lifetime with Help of an Executive Coach
- Executive Job Coaching – Need a Job or Career Coach?
- Professional Development Programs
Enjoy Your Work More
In a rut? Wish you were still excited about going to work everyday? Enjoying your work can go a long way to feeling fulfilled in life. By taking a little time to consider what you really value, you can advance in the direction of ultimate satisfaction. Learn how to change your perspective to enjoy your work more by reading the articles below.
- Bring New Vigor to Your Job
- Love Your Current Job!
- Stay Motivated At Work
- Happiness Is More Important than Money
- Six Ways to Enjoy Work More
- Tips on Slowing Down, Appreciating Colleagues and Being Grateful
- Get the Most from Your Life
- Minimize Self-Criticism
- Parents Who’ve Been Poor Work Models
Enhance Your Career
Enhance your career by learning how to demonstrate commitment to your company’s core strategies, enact proven methods to reach your goals faster and unleash your leadership potential. Read on to learn more tips on leadership development from Joel Garfinkle to enhance your career for a more satisfying work life.
- 5 Steps to Enhance Your Career
- The Time to Start Networking is When You Already Have a Job
- 7 Steps to Career Success
- Leadership Lessons from Geese
- Ways to Reach Your Goals Faster
- Interview with Executive Coach Marshall Goldsmith
- Procrastination: What is it costing you?
- To succeed today, you need wisdom
- How to Ask for a Pay Raise
- Executive leadership development program
- Articles on Leadership Skills
Improve Your Communication Skills”
Communication skills were ranked the number one quality sought after by employers. Yet, communication skills are often overlooked as something to develop as an employee since many believe that communication skills are something you either have or don’t have. The truth is, good communication skills can be learned and implemented by anyone willing to put forth a little effort. Learn how by reading the following articles on leadership communication.
- Gain Competitive Advantage – 6 Essential Secrets
- Improve Communication When Times Are Bad
- 9 Tips for Improving Your Communications Skills
- See MY Point of View at Work
- Seven Steps to Clear and Effective Communication
- Ask For What You Want at Work and Get It
Self-Promotion Spread the Word about You
Learn the art of self promotion so you can use it to your advantage. If you don’t self-promote effectively, your work goes unnoticed and your career will suffer. You’ll be overlooked and unnoticed. It’s vital to let people know of your achievements, their impact and how you provide value.
- The Keys to Effective Self-Promotion
- Get Credit For Your Work
- How Fear of Self-Promotion Can Kill Your Career
- Getting Credit at Work: Behind Every Successful Woman is Herself
- Promoting yourself as a thought leader
Survive Office Politics
No matter what size company you work for, office politics will eventually come into play in your work environment. Not knowing what to expect or how to play can greatly impact your job satisfaction and ability to move up in a company. Learn how to effectively navigate office politics when you read the following article by Joel Garfinkle.
First 90 Days on a Job
Many people fail within the first 90 days of a new job or promotion because they do not yet possess the skills and experience needed to thrive at that level. Read the following article and learn how to avoid this obstacle and set yourself up for future success.
Reduce the Impact of Layoffs
When times are tough, it can be difficult to thrive when others are being laid off. You may be wondering if you’re next. The following articles address the challenges employers and employees face when times are tough. Joel Garfinkle, who counsels corporations on ways to develop effective leaders, offers advice on how you can reduce the impact of layoffs in the following articles.
- Tips to Reduce Your Chances of Being Laid Off
- 7 Ways to Keep Employees Motivated During Layoffs
- Layoffs and Downsizing: How to Help Surviving Employees
Books to Help You Succeed
Executive book summaries can help develop effective leaders. Whether you are gaining tips on leadership development or articles on leadership communication, books can provide the necessary information to help you with career success.
- Transformational Leadership Research 7 Books & Articles
- 8 Free Business Leadership Books You Can Find Online
- Three Executive Book Summaries – Joel Garfinkle’s Leadership Books
- 3 Free Motivational Books to Help You Succeed
- Getting Ahead — Not Your Average Career Coaching Book
- Use Books on Tape to Capture Your Ultimate Competitive Advantage
- Leadership Development Articles
360 Assessment Tool Measuring Executive Presence
This Executive Presence 360 Degree Evaluation Tool provides an in-depth understanding of a leaders executive presence. Contact us now to discuss this feedback tool.
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