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The importance of core values in building company culture.

You NEED Core Values: 5 Ways to Create Empowered Company Culture

In today’s fast-paced business environment, a strong company culture is more than a trendy buzzword—it’s a necessity for sustainable success. ...

Is Your Candidate Experience a Positive One?

With record low unemployment rates, the applicant pool is shallower than ever. Because of this, it is important to not ...

9 Ways to Build Trust With Your Employees

A lack of trust is often at the heart of most workplace issues, so building trust with employees could prove ...

Your Culture and Brand Should Be Working Together

Ask people how to develop a good company culture, and most will immediately start suggesting great employee benefits, or a ...

9 Tips to Reduce Employee Turnover

A Future Workplace and Kronos study has found that 87% of employers said that improving retention is a critical priority ...

Developing the Next Generation of Leaders

In a recent SHRM article they discussed the importance of building better leaders. When top executives retire or leave the ...

3 Common Hiring Myths

Hiring a new employees is a big decision for a business of any size. That’s partly due to the fact ...

The Four Behaviors of Successful CEOs

Be honest, when you think of successful CEO what comes to mind? For many, it’s a charismatic white-man, with a ...

Three Common Leadership Mistakes

A team can only be successful as their leader. Being a good leader empowers your team members to produce their ...

What is Succession Planning & Why is it Important?

According to a Global SHRM Survery, executives worldwide believe their two biggest challenges through 2020 will be attracting the best ...

How to Combat the Labor Shortage

The good news is, unemployment rates are incredibly low, the bad news is, unemployment rates are incredibly low. While it’s ...

5 Ways to Develop Great Leaders on Your Team

It’s a pretty common occurrence - a great employee gets promoted to manager because they excel in their current role. ...

5 Ways to Be More Persuasive

In sales, the power to persuade is everything. But if you’re struggling to influence potential clients it may be because ...

Being Charitable Is Actually A Good Business Strategy

One of the Core Values at Center for Victory is to ‘Be Like Fred’. If you’re not from Pittsburgh, or ...

Are You Fostering A Culture Of Owners Or Renters?

Be an Eagle. As one of our core values at Center for Victory, we strive to fill our company with ...

Good Leaders Develop Other Leaders

Tom Peter says, “the best leaders don't create more followers, they create more leaders.” It’s important to note that you ...

Are You Pursuing Your Passion?

It’s been said many times, “if you love what you do, you’ll never work a day in your life.” While ...

Is it Really Bad Managers Causing Employees to Quit?

We’ve said it many times, employees quit because of bad bosses. And while that is true, to an extent, recent ...

The Importance of On-Going Development of Employees

Regardless of the industry, for businesses to thrive and compete successfully in today’s ever-changing business environment, it is imperative to ...

Leadership Lessons From The Founding Fathers

243 years ago, the United States was in it’s very beginning stages. But, the creation of the United States of ...

Do Your Employees Understand Your Expectations?

Managers and supervisors spend the bulk of their time communicating. The Center for Management and Organization Effectiveness reports that leaders ...

How Psychometrics Can Give You A Winning Sales Team

Talk to most sales managers and they’ll agree that there are certain personality traits that are typically associated with successful ...

Why Every CEO Should Have a Coach

It’s true what they say. It’s lonely at the top. As a CEO, you have less people you can go ...

Why Does Having an Engagement Strategy Matter?

Employee engagement is more than just employee perks, ping pong tables, and communal workspaces. True engagement is the emotional commitment ...

Resiliency is a Critical Component of Leadership

In many organizations, you may hear “failure is not an option.” However, failure is not only an option, failure is ...

Shift Your Mindset to Increase Your Success

We all want to know the secret to success, but the reality is that there are so many factors that ...

The Art and Craft of Change Management

A recent survey of business executives found that despite the best intentions, change management efforts often fail to achieve desired ...

Does Your Organization Have a People Strategy?

Does your organization have a people strategy? People are critical for any business to effectively execute on its business strategy. ...

Your Company Culture is Affecting Your Employee Engagement

What Is Company Culture? Simply put, company culture is the personality of a company. It defines the working environment for ...

Is Your Workplace Ready for Gen. Z?

For years now, the focus has been on Millennials, but the truth is, Millennials are now in their mid to ...

Strengthen Your Persuasive Skills

In sales, the power to persuade is everything. But if you’re struggling to influence potential clients it may be because ...

Intelligent Mentoring: A Must-Do For Any Leader

2 percent. That’s the number that employee engagement drops to on teams that have managers who ignore their employees. That’s ...

Talent Optimization

Is your organization performing at its absolute best? Are you struggling to overcome common obstacles like turnover, disengaged employees, bad ...

Combating Loneliness at Work

It’s lonely at the top. You hear that often. The hire up the ladder you climb, the fewer people you ...

How To Spot a Toxic Work Culture

Think about your job for a minute. What feelings do you associate with it? If words like, anxiety, fear, or ...

Benefits of a 360 Review

What is a 360-degree performance review? A 360-degree review is a process through which feedback from an employee’s peers, manager ...

9 Ways to Empower Your People 

1. Actively Listen When you are actively listening, you truly understand what your people are saying in conversations and meetings ...

Why You Should Be Embracing Failure – Not Avoiding It

Recently, in an interview, Autumn Calabrese (creator of the incredibly successful workout programs 21 Day Fix & 80 Day Obsession) ...

Are You Making These Management Mistakes?

Employee engagement continues to be a hot topic when discussing talent retention. It’s no wonder when the Gallup organization tells ...

8 Questions Self-Aware Leaders Should Be Asking Themselves

Increasing self-awareness should be at the forefront of your leadership development. Being aware of ones strengths, weaknesses, style, personality, preferences, ...

Clearing the Path: How Leaders Set the Direction When Team Members Cannot

As a leader, you may have a very vivid understanding of your company’s priorities, needs, initiatives, and future work. Other ...

How Deceptive Messages Derail Strategy

Our company can withstand any competitors. Customers love our products just the way they are. The rules don’t apply to ...

How to Become an Agile Thinker

Agile thinking is a critical skill that many leaders need to thrive in today’s fast-paced work world. Leaders can better ...

What Does It Take To Create Capabilities-Focused Teams?

Capabilities has been a popular buzzword in 2018. Companies are seeking to identify and train employees that have specific, needed ...

Coaching: It’s Not Just for Senior Management Anymore

About 3 million Americans quit their job each month (According to data from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics). That ...

The Power of Questions

Inquiry is a powerful way for leaders to gain a deeper understanding of their businesses and their employees. By knowing ...

Cultivate Leaders Who Are Focused on Solving Problems

If you’ve been in the workforce for a while, you’ve undoubtedly seen the person who spends a lot of time ...

For Transformational Leadership, Be Ready to Learn

Transformational leadership is a lofty concept, evoking images of inspirational leaders who can clearly define opportunities, carve a path forward, ...

Why Does Passionate Leadership Matter?

What makes a great leader? Is it their work ethic, their confidence, their attitude, their passion? In a recent study, ...

Benefits of Personal Development in the Workplace

The workplace is changing, the need for new and unique skill is increasing, and employers are beginning to see the ...

Why Self Awareness Is Vital In Leadership

A common question that we ask ourselves is "How do I become a better leader?" The majority take the path ...

Why You Should Care About Professionalism in The Workplace

With the #MeToo movement still prominent, the idea of professionalism is in the spotlight now more than ever, and rightly ...

Kindness Makes a Lasting Impact in the Workplace

As the Fred Rogers quote goes, “There are three ways to ultimate success. The first way is to be kind. ...