Leadership
Matthew Harrington
Election Reflection: When Does a Vision Become ...

Reflecting on the recent election, the Harris campaign's lack of a clear and compelling vision became evident in contrast to Trump’s well-communicated stance, making it challenging for voters to see her future for America. Drawing from the change formula, a successful campaign requires acknowledging dissatisfaction, defining a visionary goal, and setting clear steps toward achieving it—elements that were more apparent in Obama’s 2008 campaign, where “hope and change” aligned with voters' aspirations and activated widespread engagement. Ultimately, the Harris campaign's struggles highlight the need for leaders to craft a vision that resonates powerfully and unites people around a shared purpose, as fear alone can often overshadow hope if it lacks sufficient clarity and preparation.

Election Reflection: When Does a Vision Become Lost—or Was It Never Realized in the First Place?
Leadership
Matthew Harrington
Lincoln’s Leadership: A Blueprint for Resilient ...

As Election Day 2024 nears, reflecting on Abraham Lincoln’s legacy offers valuable insights into adaptive leadership, resilience, and unity. Known for his humility, conviction, and strategic flexibility, Lincoln showed how true leaders use disruptions to inspire lasting change. This election, we can look to Lincoln’s example of courage and empathy, guiding us to face challenges boldly and strive for a united future.

Lincoln’s Leadership: A Blueprint for Resilient Leadership Beyond Election Day
People, Leadership
Matthew Harrington
Navigating Conflict in the Workplace: The ...

Conflict at work is inevitable, but with the right tools, it can become an opportunity for growth. In this post we explore how leaders can guide teams through conflict by understanding how the brain processes emotions through the downstairs, middle room, and upstairs functions of the brain.

Navigating Conflict in the Workplace: The Downstairs, Middle Room and Upstairs of Resolution
Culture, People
Matthew Harrington
Belief-Behavior Conversations In Action: How ...

Belief-behavior conversations, as we discussed in our e-book: Revitalize and Retain Staff, aim to address the root causes behind actions, rather than merely correcting surface-level behavior. Pixar’s leadership used this approach to facilitate open, meaningful dialogues, helping the team uncover the underlying beliefs fueling their actions. Once these beliefs were identified, leaders guided team members toward reframing them, creating lasting behavioral change.

Belief-Behavior Conversations In Action: How Pixar Transformed Team Dynamics and Communication
People, Leadership, Culture
Matthew Harrington
Leadership Growth Lattice in Action: How ...

Discover how LinkedIn transformed employee growth and retention with the Leadership Growth Lattice, a modern alternative to traditional career ladders. By encouraging skill development, cross-functional teamwork, mentorship, volunteerism, and alignment with personal life goals, LinkedIn fostered a culture of continuous learning and flexibility. This holistic approach empowered employees, reduced turnover, and fueled innovation, positioning LinkedIn as a top employer in the competitive tech industry.

Leadership Growth Lattice in Action: How LinkedIn Embraced Holistic Employee Development to Drive Retention and Innovation
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Millennials and Their Rigorous Demand for Excellence in Brands

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Millennials and Their Rigorous Demand for Excellence in Brands

Millennials. Brands. Trust. Three things that seemingly go together, yet each one has its own origin story.  Exploring each one is the task at hand for the next month and a half as we prepare for the Relate Live New York City conference on October 22-23.  How we fit these massive topics all into a 45 minute presentation, giving each one its own stage time, while connecting the dots, threading the narrative through all of them to come away with useful insights and nuggets of knowledge for conference goers will be our challenge.

Harrington To Speak at Relate Live New York Conference on Millennials and Brand Trust

Harrington To Speak at Relate Live New York Conference on Millennials and Brand Trust

Matt Harrington, author, speaker and trainer on workplace generations will be a featured speaker at Zendesk's Relate Live NYC conference on October 23-24, 2017. The conference will be held at the Metropolitan Pavilion in New York City.  Harrington will speak on how the best brands build trust and credibility with the Millennial generation (1980-2001).

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Tasks, Processes and Relationships

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Tasks, Processes and Relationships

There are always three things going on in any transaction or more importantly group/team/department/company: tasks, processes, and relationships. You can imagine that most of us focus a majority of our time on tasks (60%), A good organization focuses some of their energy on good processes (30%). This leaves about 10% just to focus on relationships which is actually the hardest and perhaps the most important thing to focus on as companies can always make a new machine, a new process, more tasks, but it's culture and people make up the differential factor between a good company and a great company.

IN THE NEWS: Harrington to Speak at Western Carolina University in Asheville this Fall

IN THE NEWS: Harrington to Speak at Western Carolina University in Asheville this Fall

Matt will shed light on some new and innovative ways to build a strong workforce for the future on September 9, 2016, from 9 am to 12 pm at the Western Carolina University at Biltmore Park in Asheville. For more information, or to register visit www.pdp.edu, or call 828-227-7397. Seats are limited and there is an early-bird registration discount through August 1, 2016.

Millennials with Matt Episode 8: The Right and Wrong Way To Empower Millennials

Millennials with Matt Episode 8: The Right and Wrong Way To Empower Millennials

So often we move right to empowerment of employees, when we really be thinking about how do we carefully hand over duties and responsibilities at a healthy rate (much like handing over the keys to a new driver). Matt Harrington, generations specialist, talks in this video about the right and wrong way to empower the Millennial generation

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Millennials with Matt Episode 7: Being the Right Cultural Fit for Millennials

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Millennials with Matt Episode 7: Being the Right Cultural Fit for Millennials

The workplace is needing to reimagine their organizational culture as the Millennial generation come with different expectations, approaches and lifestyles then previous generations.  Learn from generations specialist Matt Harrington about 3 areas to focus on when looking for the right cultural fit for your Millennial workers.

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Millennials with Matt Episode 6: 9 Things That Drive Millennials Away from Organizations

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Millennials with Matt Episode 6: 9 Things That Drive Millennials Away from Organizations

Generations specialist Matt Harrington brings us another quick video on the 9 things that organizations do that drive Millennials to find other places to work. For more information on this and other generations content visit www.GrowingMillennialLeadership.com