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René Johnston

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Develop clear expectations to create successful teams

Process helps align behavior, duties, staff with your organization's mission
December 4, 2025
René Johnston

Strong leaders understand that building high-performing teams doesn’t happen by chance. It requires intention, consistency, and clarity.


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Self-awareness might be your superpower

Recognizing triggers, limitations is as important as knowing strengths
June 5, 2025
René Johnston

While conventional wisdom suggests leaders should project unwavering confidence, research increasingly demonstrates that the ability to recognize blind spots, triggers, and limitations, in addition to one's own strengths, creates a profound competitive advantage.


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Workplace learning continues to evolve, expand

Four trends are among talent-development shifts
December 5, 2024
René Johnston

Like most aspects of the workplace, learning and development are ever evolving. In this past year, some significant shifts and trends have materialized and expanded.



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Encouraging learning promotes healthy culture

Valuing development, skills growth heightens employee engagement
December 7, 2023
René Johnston

There is much written that outlines how a strong, highly functioning organizational culture values learning and growth. 


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Employers should build strong culture, then question it

Healthy workplace values attract, retain employees
June 22, 2023
René Johnston
If you take a look at just about any list of the top qualities sought by job candidates and the qualities employees value in an organization, you will find that the majority of those qualities are demonstrated in highly functioning organizational cultures
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Retaining quality employees is mission critical

Employers should share worker-value proposition
October 20, 2022
René Johnston
Hiring managers, human resources professionals, or business owners will all tell you that finding quality employees is difficult. The current labor market is challenging in ways we haven't encountered before. Nearly 48 million people left their jobs
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Businesses gain from culture that supports women

Mentorship is expected to play a growing role for future female leaders
June 2, 2022
René Johnston
Much of my career has been spent writing and speaking to the value of creating a strong, highly functioning internal culture. It should be implicit in building that strong culture that it be one that is inclusive and supportive.
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Strong organizations embrace workplace learning

Education programming can have lasting impact for workers, employers
February 10, 2022
René Johnston
Strong, highly functioning organizations understand the importance of investing in quality learning and development opportunities. If you want to improve and grow, it's critical to understand how to best select, design, and deliver education programming
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Professional development opportunities are available

They may look different looking into the future than before pandemic
November 18, 2021
René Johnston
The past 19 months have had most of us spending our professional energy focused on stability and not necessarily growth. Given this particular focus, it is possible that professional growth and development for us as individuals, and perhaps
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Women leaders should assess communication habits

Well-meant behaviors sometimes work against those in governing roles
June 3, 2021
René Johnston
Women leaders bring tremendous strengths, insight, and value to the workplace. But let's face it, we still confront a number of barriers. As a result of centuries of social and cultural programming, seeds individually planted as early as childhood
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