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Combatting Burnout: How to Re-Engage Employees and Teams

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Tuesday, December 5, 2023

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NEW YORK, Dec. 5, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- "We are seeing a ton of burnout at all levels of the organization," says Courtney Hamilton, Managing Director of The Miles Group/TMG, a consulting firm that works closely with CEOs, leadership teams, and boards of major global corporations to create customized, world-class talent strategies. "Quality diminishes, productivity can tumble, and the ability to solve problems really suffers when burnout is unaddressed over time."

Key Points:

"Quality diminishes, productivity can tumble, and the ability to solve problems really suffers when burnout is unaddressed over time."
"Burnout has always been something that people have experienced regardless of how passionate they are about the work.
On today's C-Suite Intelligence podcast episode, " Re-Engaging Burned Out Employees ," Hamilton and Woodard address the causes of burnout and the strategies to overcome it.
" Re-Engaging Burned Out Employees " is out now on Apple , Google , Spotify , TMG's website , or wherever you get your podcasts.

Creating a Culture of "Weak Signal Detection"

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Tuesday, November 21, 2023

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NEW YORK, Nov. 21, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- "Every time there's a threat against a company, there is almost always a weak signal or a whiff of smoke that can serve as an early warning of the risk to the organization," says John Nasr, Managing Director of The Miles Group (TMG). "If that threat is dismissed or ignored, the whiff of smoke can turn into a forest fire. Then the organization faces a much bigger problem, with fewer options to solve it."

Key Points:

"Being able to detect weak signals around the organization is really a durable competitive advantage," says TMG CEO Stephen Miles.
On the new C-Suite Intelligence podcast episode, " Weak Signal Detection ," Miles and Nasr discuss the importance of embedding weak signal detection in the company culture by leveraging the company's "second circle," establishing a common language to set context, and creating a safe environment to not only raise, but act on those weak signals.
" Initiating on a weak signal takes real leadership courage as many people will think it's a bad idea, or perceive it as an overreaction.
" Weak Signal Detection " is out now on Apple , Google , Spotify , TMG's website , or wherever you get your podcasts.

The Dark Side of Company Culture: Stasis and Conformity

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Wednesday, September 13, 2023

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NEW YORK, Sept. 13, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Culture is most often shaped and fortified on the margin, when leaders must make hard choices, says Stephen Miles, CEO of The Miles Group (TMG). Depending on what they can tolerate, their decisions will either result in a high-performing company culture or one that leads to high levels of conformity and stasis.

Key Points:

Depending on what they can tolerate, their decisions will either result in a high-performing company culture or one that leads to high levels of conformity and stasis.
On this week's new C-Suite Intelligence podcast episode, " The Dark Side of Company Culture: Stasis and Conformity ," Miles and Managing Director John Nasr discuss the criticality of a company's culture to its longevity and long-term success.
They also explore the dark side of corporate culture – stagnation that can lead to an organization's irrelevance and decline.
"In the process of becoming reliable, a company fortifies the culture around protecting the business of today," says Nasr.

Every Job is a People Leader Job

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Wednesday, August 30, 2023

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NEW YORK, Aug. 30, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- "It's a wise leader who understands that once you get into these senior level jobs, every job is a people leader job," says Taylor Griffin, COO of The Miles Group, on this week's C-Suite Intelligence podcast.

Key Points:

Changes in the field of talent have been dramatic, says Vijungco.
"What's been front and center for Chief People Officers and CEOs are workplace solutions, diversity, and employee communications."
"We advise our clients to minimize the variables" for scope risk and scale risk when hiring, says Smith.
" Every Job is a People Leader Job " is out now on Apple , Google , Spotify , TMG's website , or wherever you get your podcasts.

High-Performing Leadership Teams: Raising the Bar and Lowering the Cost of Coordination

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Thursday, August 17, 2023

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NEW YORK, Aug. 17, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Frustration among leaders is mounting when it comes to the overall effectiveness and collective performance of their leadership teams.

Key Points:

However, the costs of team performance and coordination are still too high, resulting in lower overall performance and outcomes."
As a result, companies and leadership teams became more vertical and less horizontal, decreasing the sense of team and increasing the cost of coordination."
On " High-Performing Leadership Teams: Raising the Bar and Lowering the Cost of Coordination ," Griffin and Stephen Miles, CEO of TMG, focus on how leaders can maximize the effectiveness and performance of their leadership teams.
Whether it's hub and spoke, distributed leadership, or a hybrid, defining the leadership model sets clear expectations among the team.

Performance and Purpose - New TMG 'C-Suite Intelligence' Podcast Just Released

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Wednesday, August 2, 2023

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NEW YORK, Aug. 2, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- "Performance and Purpose" are the top issues facing corporate leaders today say Tom Williams, executive chairman and former CEO of Parker Hannifin – a Fortune 250 global leader in motion and control technologies – and Stephen Miles, CEO of The Miles Group (TMG) on this week's episode of the C-Suite Intelligence podcast.

Key Points:

When you put everything in context of that, it allows people to keep driving for greater performance, greater potential, and to feel good about what they do."
"As CEO, you have to have a team and an organization that can respond in a dynamic and effective way."
In the current episode, " Performance and Purpose – An Interview with Tom Williams of Parker Hannifin ," Miles and Williams discuss:
Driving productivity in a high inflation environment, with low or no growth.
This enables people to be more engaged, "one of the manifestations of high performance."

Strategies for Leading Through Stress Events

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Wednesday, July 5, 2023

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NEW YORK, July 5, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- "The world is less predictable," says Stephen Miles, CEO of The Miles Group. "Most of us don't know what's going to happen tomorrow and we have to respond to whatever that is. For many leaders and for many employees inside companies, it's hard and stressful."

Key Points:

You leverage your team; you leverage the company; you leverage trusted advisors; you communicate in high bandwidths; you make decisions.
" – Stephen Miles
NEW YORK, July 5, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- "The world is less predictable," says Stephen Miles, CEO of The Miles Group.
"Most of us don't know what's going to happen tomorrow and we have to respond to whatever that is.
"I think of leading in a stress event as binary," says Miles.

The Preparedness Playbook for Leadership in Difficult Times

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Tuesday, June 20, 2023

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NEW YORK, June 20, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- "Is there a playbook for the times we are in now? Is there a playbook for leaders who can define themselves with high integrity and high accountability, lead through the most difficult times, and not be high on the 'jerk' scale?"

Key Points:

– Stephen Miles
NEW YORK, June 20, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- "Is there a playbook for the times we are in now?
Is there a playbook for leaders who can define themselves with high integrity and high accountability, lead through the most difficult times, and not be high on the 'jerk' scale?"
In this first of a 2-part series, " The Preparedness Playbook for Leadership in Difficult Times – Part 1 ," Miles and Tarkoff discuss the qualities needed by leaders from the CEO to the front line.
There's a lot of scorched earth and a lot of people who've lost trust and lost faith in the board or in the leadership."

The New Leadership Toolkit: From Potential to Performance

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Tuesday, January 17, 2023

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NEW YORK, Jan. 17, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- To succeed in today's business environment, says The Miles Group (TMG) CEO Stephen Miles, "you have to have the toolkit to be performance-driven…This ambidextrous nature of executives that we're looking for must combine a potential-driven mindset –inspiring, motivational, passionate – with the performance-driven aspects of bootstrapping and doing more with less."

Key Points:

We forgot that there are some fundamental things that have to be in place for a business to truly be successful and scale."
In " The New Leadership Toolkit: From Potential to Performance ," the episode of C-Suite Intelligence out today, special guest Rob Tarkoff, EVP of Oracle, joins hosts Miles and Taylor Griffin, Chief Operating Officer of TMG, to discuss why we have been so enamored with enigmatic, overconfident, youthful CEOs.
"They're not held to any true performance metrics, and there's no incentive to drive it to that level of discipline," says Tarkoff.
" The New Leadership Toolkit: From Potential to Performance " is out now on all major podcast platforms.

Top Issues Facing CEOs in 2023: How to Thrive Through the Impending Global Recession and Systemic Inflation

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Tuesday, January 10, 2023

NEW YORK, Jan. 10, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Stephen Miles, CEO of The Miles Group, a leadership advisory firm to top CEOs, boards, C-suites, and corporations around the globe, today published his annual letter outlining the top issues he sees facing leaders in 2023.

Key Points:

"The first question on most CEOs' minds for 2023 is not 'if' but 'when' the global economy will enter into a recession," says Miles.
The Impending Global Recession and Systemic Inflation: "The challenge now for many CEOs is dealing with the systemic cycle of inflation, rather than reacting to the initial shock… However, it is coming, and when it comes, it will hit hard.
We will likely see many CEOs take advantage of this new world for tech and grow rather than stagnate."
The pandemic revealed how fragile the global supply chain really was and how much we had traded accessible, durable, and multi-source for global, low-friction, and single-source.