Sound Wisdom Blog
Four Questions Smart Leaders Ask to Build Employee Relationships by Phillip Van Hooser
If you lead others and want to take your success (and that of your organization) to the next level, knowing how to build employee relationships is critical. I’m talking about engaged, honest, productive employee relationships. But often, leaders are too afraid to ask an employee’s opinion of the leader’s performance. If you really want to be successful, you really want to build employee relationships that are strong—and you’re really brave—ask your people these four questions.
Your Best People Are Leaving…and I Know Why by Sam Silverstein
I work with a lot of leaders. One of the things I find consistently is that when key people in the organization leave unexpectedly, this has less to do with the employee’s level of commitment than it does with the leader’s level of commitment—usually in one, two, or all three of the areas you just read.

