How to Be the Leader Your Employees Need
Without positive, self-aware, life-giving leaders, organizations and employees fail to flourish. Effective leaders create healthier, more productive employees, red [...]
Five Steps to Escaping the Gap Trap
If you're a manager working overtime to make up for your team's shortcomings, you probably don't have time to help your employees improve their own skills. You kno [...]
How Annual Performance Reviews Sabotage Our Culture
In our complex world, it's the unintended consequences that hurt us—not the intended ones. This was the clear and painful story when our organization still conduct [...]
Five Strategies to Reduce Your Stress in the Workplace
No matter how much we love our jobs, we all get overwhelmed at work. A recent survey by the American Psychological Association indicated 65 percent of Americans st [...]
Behind Summit: A Chat With Nicole Luisi
Aileron’s Director of Research & Development, Nicole Luisi, shares the beginnings of Summit, why she’s passionate about the conference, and how it helps her fi [...]
Why You Should Stop Striving for Work-Life Balance
Open up Forbes, head over to HBR, or scroll through Thrive Global, and you’ll see plenty of pieces discussing burnout. People are working long hours and neglecting [...]
Business Owner Only Hires People Smarter than Him
When Travis Greenwood was nineteen, he learned a meaningful leadership lesson he still applies today as a small business owner. Travis was a sophomore in college, [...]
Celebrating 10 Years on Campus
"Most people overestimate what they can do in one year and underestimate what they can do in ten years." (Bill Gates) In April of 2008, we opened our campus and be [...]
Strategic Planning: Where Do You Start? (Podcast)
Strategic planning is an ongoing process, so where do you start? In an interview with an Aileron Client, Martha Shaker, President of Concept Rehab, we discuss how [...]
How to Make the Jump to a Management Role (Podcast)
What has changed for Heather Brown—and the company she works for—since working with Aileron? Heather Brown, now a Production Manager for Ramco Electric Motors, ans [...]
This Is How You Can Make Everyone’s Job Better
Team members at Solid Blend Technologies had a unified vision, but gaps in the company’s operations were starting to show. Solid Blend Technologies is a Dayton-bas [...]
2 Key Ways to Let the Customer Lead You to New Ideas
Several years ago, a customer came to Promotional Spring asking for point of purchase signage. (Promotional Spring is a company that creates experiences and soluti [...]