Respectful Leadership | Gregg Ward Group

The Bad Behavior, People Problems and Sticky Situations, A toolbook for managers and team leaders

December 22, 2014

Bad Behavior, People Problems & Sticky Situations | Revised Edition

by Gregg Ward in Books, Leadership Presence

Back in the 90’s, my clients kept saying things like “We get a lot out of your training programs. How come all your stuff isn’t in a book?” Good question. So, in 2002 I wrote Bad Behavior, People Problems & Sticky Situations: A Toolbook for Managers and Team Leaders. I designed it to be a quick […]

The Respectful Leader: seven ways to influence without intimidation

December 22, 2014

The Respectful Leader |To Be Published by John Wiley & Sons, July 2016

by Gregg Ward in Books, Respectful Leadership

After focusing on the ideas around respect and respectful leadership for many years, I finally decided to put pen to paper – or least fingers to keyboard – and, with the help of author Walter G. Meyer, write my next book which is called The Respectful Leader: Seven Ways to Influence Without Intimidation, A Business Fable. In this […]

December 15, 2014

Gregg Ward Group | The Spark to Possibility

by Gregg Ward in Leadership Presence, Media

Most of us have been treated with respect at some point in our careers. But sadly, many of us have been disrespected at work – sometimes over and over – by customers, colleagues, bosses, and even by the very processes, procedures and cultures put in place by our employers. Today, more and more organizations […]

group of smiling business women and men in a meeting

December 15, 2014

You Don’t Have To Like Someone to Work With Them

by Gregg Ward in Collaborative Innovation

There’s an old saying in business and it goes like this…”You don’t have to like someone to work with them.” I agree, there are many people that we work with who we don’t necessarily like, and we sure wouldn’t want to hang out with them on a personal basis. But, when we do work with these […]

October 30, 2014

Healthcare Business Women’s Association

by Gregg Ward in Events, Respectful Leadership

Recently, I was invited by the Southern California Chapter of the Healthcare Businesswomen’s Association to speak on Respectful Leadership at their Fall 2014 meeting hosted by the giant pharmaceutical company Genentech. The room was filled with executives, staff, physicians and even clinical researchers, who seemed very attentive and interested in the concepts within and practices […]

Man on smartphone during a business meeting

October 9, 2014

Respectful Leadership Means Putting Down The Smartphone

by Gregg Ward in Respectful Leadership

OK, show of hands…how many of you have been in meetings where the boss (or multiple bosses) have been checking their smart phones while you or your colleagues were in the middle of presenting? You can all put your hands down now (uh, ma’am, you can put both hands down now). Yes, this has happened […]

Two business men having an intense discussion

August 8, 2014

Hierarchy Plays A Role in Disrespect

by Gregg Ward in Collaborative Innovation

The manager and subordinate I’d been working with as a mediator were both angry with each other. The subordinate felt disrespected by the manager and vice versa. But, while the manager shrugged it off as the employee being too sensitive (and disrespectful), the employee was stuck in a cycle of feeling disrespected and powerless, growing […]

October 20, 2013

The Introverted Manager’s Dilemma

by Gregg Ward in Engagement, Leadership Presence

Last year I was coaching a mid-level manager named “Ted” who admitted he was having trouble “making small talk” with his team. Some of them even said he was “unapproachable” in an anonymous employee survey. So, when I asked him about it Ted came clean, “I come in Monday mornings and head directly for my […]

Gentleman demonstrating a concept on white board

February 10, 2013

Respect and Trust Go Hand In Hand

by Gregg Ward in Leadership Presence

When I think back to all of the people who made a positive difference in my life, the one thing they all had in common was trust: trust in me. One of my very first jobs after I graduated from college was as a temp for a boutique market research firm in Boston called Wallace & […]

December 15, 2012

Respect for Millennials

by Gregg Ward in Change, Respectful Leadership

Born between the late 1970’s and the early 2000’s, Millennials (aka Gen Y, Gen Next, Echo Boomers) are a consistent topic of conversation in the workplace. Not surprisingly; the US Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates that over 35% of our current workforce is comprised of Millennials, while some studies (Pew Foundation, Lynch) project this number […]

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