by Kristen Ireland | Aug 11, 2026 | Company Culture, Hire and Keep the Right People
What Gallup’s generational engagement data reveals about the skills every leader needs Recently, in a session on engagement across the generations, I asked a room full of leaders to rank four generations from most engaged to least: baby boomers, Gen X,...
by Kristen Ireland | Aug 3, 2026 | Company Culture
Why your strategy keeps stalling — even when everyone is working hard. When I was younger, my family took a road trip through Boston and we were trying to get to Cambridge from Boston. My mom had the map. She kept...
by Kristen Ireland | Jun 22, 2026 | Company Culture, Feedback, Leadership
We’ll do a lot to avoid one honest conversation — so why is that? When people find out what I do for a living, the question comes fast. “Hey, can I ask you something? How would you handle this?” Out comes the story. An...
by Kristen Ireland | Mar 20, 2026 | Company Culture, Leadership
Spring planting season is weeks away. The phone starts ringing before 6am. Your team will be pulling long days. Customers will be impatient. That’s not the time to figure out if your people know what’s expected of...
by Kristen Ireland | Jun 5, 2025 | Company Culture, Hire and Keep the Right People, Productivity & Growth
If you’ve been following along with this five-part blog series, you know that in successful companies, all business functions are aligned and operating as a single, interrelated, interdependent system. Because if even one aspect of your organization is out of whack,...
