by Dr. Rick Goodman | Mar 4, 2019 | Leadership, Workplace Culture
All of us want to connect with people—with friends, with co-workers, with clients and customers. Of course, connection isn’t something you achieve easily. It takes ongoing work and long-term commitment. What’s more, it requires a company culture that actually...
by Dr. Rick Goodman | Feb 28, 2019 | Leadership, Self Care, Workplace Culture
Is workplace wellness hardwired into your company culture? For many companies, the answer is a resounding yes. And for those companies that do take employee health and wellbeing seriously, it’s exciting to consider some of the innovations coming down the pipeline. In...
by Dr. Rick Goodman | Feb 25, 2019 | Leadership, Workplace Culture
Even if you’ve never taken the time to articulate your company culture, you probably have some feeling of what it is. When you go to work each day, you have some general sense of what the team values, what it takes seriously, what it pursues—and what it doesn’t. There...
by Dr. Rick Goodman | Feb 21, 2019 | Entrepreneurship, Leadership, Management Skills
As a leader, it’s important to always have a plan. At the same time, however, it’s important to realize that your plans won’t always unfold smoothly. You’ll run into problems. You’ll hit a wall. You’ll be thrown off course. Pick whichever turn of phrase you like—the...
by Dr. Rick Goodman | Feb 11, 2019 | Leadership, Productivity
For many of us, there’s an innate tension between productivity and mental health. We want to get things done, but we also want to maintain some balance and some sanity. We want to stay productive without feeling constantly stressed over everything on our to-do list....
by Dr. Rick Goodman | Feb 11, 2019 | Leadership
Simple question for today: Do the people on your team take you seriously? That can be sort of a fuzzy thing to define, but you probably have a pretty good instinct for it: Your team either respects you and deems you credible or they don’t, and whatever your gut’s...
