Research shows that 41% of the global workforce is likely to consider leaving their current employer within the next year, with 46% planning to make a major pivot or career transition. What can you do to keep your team and your talent?

Here are 3 tips to ensure you keep your talent on your side.

Tip #1 — Communicate Your Future Plans

First and foremost, communicate your plans — and soon! Most executives seem to be holding off on announcing sweeping plans and detailed timelines to bring people back. …

Thanks to the pandemic, we have a once-in-a-lifetime reset on the way we work. After a forced evacuation from workplaces in March of 2020, 50% of employees now say they don’t want to go back to the office full time. The bird is out of the cage. We have tasted freedom — freedom from commutes, freedom from mandated “face time” at the office and too much air travel for work.

We now know what’s possible. We can work and get our jobs done more efficiently working remotely than we ever imagined possible. For many employees, being forced to go into…

My smartwatch keeps telling me what a disappointment I am. Pace, distance, move, stand goals — all my stats all down. And I’m discouraged.

But, hey, I’m at the tail end of a global pandemic! I sit all day at my computer, in front of a Zoom screen with my team members and clients staring back at me from their home offices in front of their Zoom screens. It’s exhausting.

Meanwhile, my smartwatch shouts at me, “Get up! Move! Reach your workout goal!”

I feel like an insolent teenager trying to dodge my mother’s nagging. Some days, when I’m tired…

Many leaders still hold on to the increasingly outdated habit and idea that, above all else, work is the most important thing — that they and their team members should sacrifice their time, energy, and well-being to deliver on the organization’s goals.

If you are a leader, it’s important that you recognize and re-calibrate this habitual way of thinking and being. Because more than just the work, you need to be paying attention to your own fulfillment as well as the fulfillment of your team. …

Most of us are intrigued by the idea of innovation, which is the art of thinking, listening, and learning through experimentation. But most of us have no formal training in it. Odds are, you also didn’t learn how to embrace mistakes as “opportunities to learn.”

“Innovation is all about learning from doing,” says Tim Brown, Chair of famed design consultancy IDEO. “That’s how we evolve to the best solution.”

Of course, that means you have to actually do something in order to get to there. What often holds us back from taking action is fear — fear that it will…

Minds, like parachutes, work best when they are open. And this is even more true today in the era of learning and unlearning about racism, sexism, diversity, and inclusion, not to mention our ever-expanding global marketplace. Leaders are being pressed to challenge most things they have been so sure about.

Open-mindedness is a combination of intellectual humility and openness to experience, that is, being willing to seek out different viewpoints. It’s also the ability to let those viewpoints change your beliefs.

In 2016, professors Elizabeth J. …

Queen Victoria had two great prime ministers, William Gladstone and Benjamin Disraeli. Both men dined with Jennie Jerome, Winston Churchill’s mother. When a journalist asked Jerome about her impression of the two men, she offered, “With Gladstone, I came away thinking he was the wittiest, most intelligent, most charming person I had ever met. With Disraeli, on the other hand, I was sure I was the wittiest, most intelligent, most charming person ever.”

It wasn’t that Disraeli wasn’t as brilliant as Gladstone. He was. However, Disraeli had mastered the art of making other people feel brilliant, respected, and important.

Which…

I am dedicated to creating workplaces where all people thrive. And most certainly, there are things that a leader can do to enable this — engage strong communication, encourage belonging, be skilled when navigating conflict, develop the ability to build and maintain a cohesive team, demonstrate true caring about people and their lives. These are the things that can be learned.

Then there is a deeper dimension of leadership to consider: nurturing your own soul. Bringing heart and meaning into your work. What I call the sacred.

Without this, you may end up feeling dried up, brittle and exhausted. To…