FINALLY - A Place for Leaders Like You

Join Now for Access to Leadership Ideas, Tools, and Techniques Designed Especially for New and Aspiring Leaders

The Bud to Boss community is a place for people making the transition to becoming a remarkable leader to learn and grow.You can join as a member of the site (it's free), and you will gain access to videos, special reports, and articles designed to assist people who are new to the leadership role. From Bud to Boss is available now. You can use the links below to purchase it at your favorite online retailer. When you purchase the hard cover book, you will find instructions on page 5 of the Bonus Bytes section for upgrading your free site membership to a full community membership with additional content and the opportunity to interact with the authors of the book (Kevin Eikenberry and Guy Harris).

5 Steps to More Beneficial Conversations

Engaging conversation with your employees does more than just provide you with something interesting to talk about. Each time you dive into an insightful conversation, you are building rapport, understanding and trust with employees. Your relationship improves, and with it, so does employee collaboration, cooperation, performance, motivation, engagement, morale and more. Conversation, even seemingly casual […] [READ MORE]

---

The Leader’s Role in Onboarding

When you’re a new leader or you’ve made a shift and are leading a new team, thinking about the onboarding of others is not usually top of mind. And the reality is, it should be. In today’s video, I’m giving five pieces of advice to help you onboard your new team more quickly and more […] [READ MORE]

---

Actions are Louder than Words: Simply Responding to Controversy Won’t Make You a Strong Leader

This is a guest post by Vishal Agarwal, author of Give to Get: A Senior Leader’s Guide to Navigating Corporate Life.  Much of the news run over the past few weeks has focused on what Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg did not do once the Cambridge Analytics information came to light. Much of the anger has tied […] [READ MORE]

---