Alaant Advisor: Different Leadership Styles, Overcoming Career Odds, Digital Employee Experience, and more!

Leadership styles within your organization can play a key role in attracting and retaining top talent. Understanding how different leadership styles affect employee engagement as well as productivity within a company is critical as you develop your organization’s culture and brand. Everyone has probably had the experience of working for a “micromanager.” And if you have, you have our deepest sympathies. So, how does this style affect employee retention?...

Gaby Gemetti thought she was failing. After having a second child, she struggled to be a good mom and also a good employee. "I felt like I wasn't a good mother," she says. "I was waking up in the middle of the night thinking about, 'Oh, my presentation,' or just work in general." So, even though Gemetti was moving up the management ranks at a top tech company in Silicon Valley, she gave up the job…

Emotional intelligence, the ability to understand and manage emotions, is an invaluable quality in the workplace. And more and more employers are recognizing this, as illustrated by a CareerBuilder survey of more than 2,600 hiring managers and HR professionals which found that: 71% said they value emotional intelligence more than IQ in an employee & 75% said they were more likely to promote a candidate with high emotional intelligence over one with a high IQ…

I’m a black engineer and these are three ways I’ve learned to overcome career odds. Engineering is in my DNA. But as an African American, I may never have turned my natural aptitude into successfully doing my life’s work at the technology consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton if I hadn’t found it within myself to seize every chance I had to expand my network, be mentored, and keep learning…

“Companies that provide a positive digital employee experience are more likely to be able to attract and retain top talent,” says a new VMware report that surveyed 6,400 employees, HR professionals, and IT specialists across 19 countries. How can organizations augment digital employee experience? And what are the implications of going digital-first? Take a look…

Lauren Valentine of Sandler Training is campaigning for The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society's (LLS) MWOY. With a little over a week left to fundraise she's almost reached her goal needed to get a research grant in honor of the Watroba family. To help hit her goal we're hoping others can donate $32 in celebration of Lauren's 32nd birthday that just passed. Check out her page here for details.