by Dr. Rick Goodman | May 14, 2018 | Leadership, Personal Development
If your career plan culminates with you becoming the CEO of a company—if that’s the end point you seek—then I recommend investing in executive coaching. The reasoning is actually pretty simple: While you can learn a lot of key leadership skills simply from going to...
by Dr. Rick Goodman | May 9, 2018 | Leadership, Productivity, Self Care
Being good at time management has very little to do with intelligence. In fact, some of the sharpest leaders I know really struggle to use their time effectively. In many cases, they get into their own heads, overthinking things rather than developing the simple yet...
by Dr. Rick Goodman | May 7, 2018 | Human Resources, Leadership, Team Building
Let me start by saying that there’s a time and a place to let people go. When you have an employee who’s simply not aligned with your culture, and whose toxicity is bringing the entire team down, your best option, frankly, may be to fire that employee. Yet firing an...
by Dr. Rick Goodman | Apr 30, 2018 | Hiring and Retention, Human Resources, Leadership, Workplace Culture
To build an effective team, you’ve got to do more than just hire the right people. You’ve also got to create an environment in which they can do their best work—an environment where your team members feel motivated and missional. And sometimes, that’s going to require...
by Dr. Rick Goodman | Apr 25, 2018 | Leadership, Productivity
First things first: You should be getting at least eight hours of sleep each night. You may think you’re superhuman, you may think you don’t need as much rest, you may think you can get by on just four hours—but you’re wrong. We all need good, deep sleep to function...
by Dr. Rick Goodman | Apr 23, 2018 | Leadership, Team Building
Today, most companies are intentional about codifying their culture. They write mission statements and mantras. They develop complex strategies for ensuring that those cultural values permeate every aspect of their corporate life. But none of that means anything if...
