There’s a reason they call it the human resources department and not the employment office. A company and its managers rise or fall based on the ability to develop solid relationships. Indeed, a recent study by the Center for Creative Leadership found that relationship and people skills, and not merely job performance, are what separates a successful...

Surveys of executives from around the world show that relationship skills are in great demand, and so is the need to improve those skills and put them to use in a changing corporate culture. While they were once considered “soft” skills that some executives simply possessed naturally, relationship skills are something that can, indeed, be...

  Many talented senior executives admit to feeling a sense of powerlessness at work. But there are steps they can take to regain control, according to new research from the Center for Creative Leadership (CCL®), a top-ranked global leadership education and research organization. A sense of powerlessness is understandable “due to the nature of today’s...