Overview: A leader’s role is to actively engage the workforce, empower employees, and get them to assume psychological ownership of organizational goals. The key to engagement is to act with integrity and to listen. Treating workers as human beings requires...
Overview: Leadership vulnerability is a strength that allows leaders to connect with employees on a human level, building mutual trust and improving productivity. Leaders who adopt attitudes predicated on honesty and openness find it easy to determine when they can...
Overview: Distributed leadership is not a new approach to improving personal and organizational performance. Many of its tenets fit the intelligent leadership fold perfectly. Sharing the responsibilities and privileges of leadership empowers people and organizations, allowing frontline experts to devise...
Overview: People don’t trust leaders who pretend they know everything. The job of a leader is not to be a know-it-all that provides answers to all questions. Like leadership coaching, intelligent leadership is a journey of co-discovery. Getting employees to...
Overview: By making their teams feel valued, leaders can boost job satisfaction, employee retention, company morale, and brand image. To boost employee satisfaction, leaders should focus on providing meaningful work, offering fair compensation, and promoting work-life balance. Employees also appreciate...