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Eileen Dooley is a talent and leadership development specialist, and a leadership coach, based in Calgary. If you’ve been working long enough, you’ve likely encountered a “gatekeeper” leadership persona. The one who doesn’t let anyone in their organization do anything without cumbersome and often painfully slow personal approvals from them. The signs are easy to spot. The leader requires all significant communications with client groups and stakeholders to go through them, or immediately be reported to them with regular status updates or rounds of forwarded e-mails. Individual team members develop a protective attitude of “I’d better ask if this is okay to do” based on past interactions that have landed them in trouble for acting independently. Clients have learned that the group with such leadership is often slow to respond and often seeks to work around the leader in question when floating new assignments. Unfortunately, this is an all-too-common issue for new or insecure leaders, ...

The best resumes have comprehensive lists of desirable key skills to make employers look twice and choose one candidate over another. If you want to ace your next job interview and make your job application stand out from other candidates, you need to put the best details possible on your resume to impress a prospective employer right from the get-go. But what job skills should you write down? This article will break down 19 of the best skills for a resume that any hiring manager will love. Soft skills employers love to see So-called "soft skills" are usually people-focused, generalized or applicable to various industries and situations. Nevertheless, employers like to see plenty of soft skills in their candidates. Related: How to Make a Resume That Gets You the Job Leadership skills Leadership skills have always been in demand, and that's even truer today. Anyone can be a good worker, but only a few employees can successfully run and manage teams, especi...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Your employee is asking for a raise. And you can't blame them. Inflation is running between 7-8%, and people need to, at the very least, keep up with the cost of living. This is now the norm in 2023. It's happening everywhere. Payroll company ADP recently reported that employees received 7.3% more pay over the past months — with employees changing jobs seeing more than double that amount. And many experts say that trend will continue through this year. But giving raises is certainly easier said than done. Big companies may be able to absorb the additional costs. But if you're running a small or even mid-sized business doing so isn't so simple. The good news is that there are options. So before handing out that raise and shouldering that extra expense, here are seven things you can do that may lessen the impact. Related: 'Ask For a Raise Now': Salaries Aren't Keeping Up Wi...

Eileen Dooley is a talent and leadership development specialist and a leadership coach based in Calgary Early in my career I worked at a national office, which also had employees in four regions, each representing an area of the country: Atlantic, Quebec, Ontario and Western Canada. To say that nobody understood each other would be an understatement. Conversations with the group, especially on national projects and activities went something like this: National office: Here is what we need the regions to roll out … Them (in no particular order): 1. You don’t understand us. 2. We are big and have lots of resources so we will do what we want. 3. No. This is not going to work here (angry tone). 4. We have so few resources, so we will take whatever you give us. It was predictable, and not all that progressive. More time was spent listening to criticism of content and process, as well as defending decisions, than being productive and co-operative. The national office wanted things to look ...