Gregg Ward speaks up on the Forbes Coaches Council Expert Panel, where top business and career coaches from Forbes Coaches Council offer firsthand insights on leadership development & careers. Public speaking isn’t easy for everyone. Some get the jitters just introducing themselves to an audience, and even experienced speakers may still get butterflies before stepping […]
Gregg Ward joins other Forbes Coaches Council Members as they contribute to the Expert Panel where top business and career coaches from Forbes Coaches Council offer firsthand insights on leadership. As a business owner, you understand the value of each of your clients. However, not every arrangement turns out to be mutually beneficial, and at some […]
One of my first real jobs after college was working as a temp in a college in New York City. I’d been assigned to a crazy busy office in the adult training department. The boss had me keying printed training manuals into our new Apple IIe computer, which required me to save my work onto […]
Gregg Ward is one of 15 Forbes Coaches Council members chosen to contribute to their Expert Panel, where top business and career coaches from Forbes Coaches Council offer firsthand insights on leadership. Every leader faces trying times, both internally and externally. Those external factors are often the most difficult to contend with, since they’re outside of a leader’s control. In […]
Today we’d like to introduce you to Gregg Ward. So, before we jump into specific questions about the business, why don’t you give us some details about you and your story. Back in the 1980’s, I was a starving actor in New York City and working as a temp for the College of Criminal Justice […]
3 big ideas discussed in this episode: The two most common leadership styles “Command & Control” and “Carrot & Stick” are unproductive, unsustainable and disrespectful. A much more effective and positive style is needed, “Respectful Leadership.” Respect is contagious: recent discoveries in neuroscience consistently support the concept that if we treat others with genuine respect, […]
Gregg Ward contributes to Forbes Coaches Council’s Expert Panel where top business and career coaches from Forbes Coaches Council offer firsthand insights on leadership. Leaders have an overwhelming number of responsibilities, often distracting or isolating them from others. Unfortunately, this sometimes impacts their ability to truly hear their team’s concerns and suggestions. They might have […]
A lot has happened in the world since my book, The Respectful Leader was first published in 2016. At that time, employee surveys were giving us early warning signals of disrespectful behavior increasing in the workplace. Leading up to the U.S. presidential election, the political climate and the amount of incivility in public discourse continued […]
In my 25 years of experience working with top industry and government organizations, I know one thing is true: a company with happy employees and a healthy company culture didn’t get there by accident. Its leaders have carefully nurtured and curated their work environments to develop a sustainable foundation of responsive, respectful leadership that significantly […]
When I’m working with a new client and making a case for modeling respectful behavior in the workplace, there is an inevitable hurdle to clear first: acknowledging there is a problem, so leaders stop passing the buck on accountability. If I’ve heard this complaint once, I’ve heard it a thousand times. Every time I show […]