Yearly Archives: 2022

To grow a company to over 5,000 employees and 1,000 leaders distributed around the globe, and to do so in just a decade, you of course need great leaders. And that’s exactly what Wix has done—focus on developing great leaders. 

Duck Creek Technologies was founded in 2000 by a group of insurance experts from Ozark County, Missouri. Two of those insurance experts, Doug Roller and his brother John, grew up playing on Duck Creek, a creek that ran through their grandfather’s farm. 

Putting together a brilliant emerging leaders program is an incredible opportunity to uplevel your career by delivering hard results. Instead of leaving you to forge your own journey and learn these lessons through trial and error, follow this article, which acts like a map laying out a tried-and-true method for building and executing an emerging leaders program from start to finish.

The phenomenon of “quiet quitting” has recently taken the workforce (and the internet) by storm. Unlike actual quitting, a manager wouldn’t necessarily know if an employee has “quietly quit,” which perhaps explains why the trend is so unnerving.

At firms like Grant Thornton, managers play a uniquely pivotal role in their company’s success. Managers drive the engagement and performance of their team members as well as the firm’s commercial success through the total value of the engagements they manage and their total billable hours. These outcomes are the building blocks of the firm’s $2+ billion in revenue. 

LEADx TeamView, the newest feature in the LEADx mobile platform for Leadership Development, gives managers one-tap access to the personality reports for each individual team member. Built-in assessments include LEADx DISC, LEADx Big 5, LEADx LQ-i, and LEADx Resilience.

Guidewire is a user-friendly cloud platform that helps insurers to engage their customers, innovate products and services, and grow their business more efficiently and agilely. 

Christopher Shryock began his role as the SVP and Chief People Officer of Sam’s Club nearly two years ago, in the midst of the pandemic. Responsible for all aspects of human resources for Sam’s Club, Shryock had (and still has) his work cut out for him. How, for example, does he scale leadership development and culture to 100,000 associates across 600 locations? And, with so much under his purview, how does he decide which problems and ideas to focus his attention on? 

Most organizations leverage some form of coaching. Leadership coaching programs have a proven positive impact on performance, well-being, coping skills, engagement, and attitude. Business coaching is one type of coaching that tends to focus less on people and leadership skills, and more on business processes, performance, and strategy.