For Lucy Kalkman, VP of Operations at Empire Today , success looks like summers spent lakeside, building memories with family and friends that will last a lifetime. By Lucy Kalkman Success is watching the sun rise over the lake with my family, fishing off of the dock, and watching my children catch their first fish. It is watching the …
What Success Looks Like: A “Woohoo,” “Yippee” or “Thank You”
Latham & Watkins’ CHRO takes pride in a little hard-earned team-effort recognition By Josh Friedlander Most of us have different roles. At the same time we are leaders, managers, parents, spouses, siblings, children and team members, as well as friends, consumers and bystanders. Simultaneous success in each of our roles is difficult, if not impossible, because at times success in …
What Success Looks Like: A Homecooked Meal
A tasty and healthy dinner is a sign of success for Forefront’s social media and editorial coordinator Jaclyn Crawford By Jaclyn Crawford My day doesn’t stop. My work here at Forefront keeps me on my toes and at the end of the day, I usually end up sprinting to catch my bus home. When for most people, dinner is just …
What Success Looks Like: A Sunny Saturday
A day free of responsibilities is a sign of success for Forefront’s editorial director. Success, to me, looks like a sunny summer Saturday—whether one with plans you’ve been looking forward to for weeks, or one with no set agenda. Either way, you’ve tackled a week’s worth of to-dos, taking care of day-to-day responsibilities and chipping away at bigger-picture efforts. Having …
The Picture of Success: What Does it Look Like To You?
Success looks different to everyone. Share what it looks like to you, and you could have a chance of being featured on the Forefront Magazine blog. Achieving success looks different to everyone, and it is rarely in monetary form. At Forefront, we feature executives and leaders in their fields who have a clear vision of what success means, and it …
Don’t Let Dinner Pass You By
Melissa Lanz, author of “The Fresh 20,” explains how amid a busy schedule she has created a plan for making eating healthy and simple Introduction by Jaclyn Crawford If you are anything like me, when you get home, making dinner can work its way to being the last priority. Sure you could prepare an elaborate meal like you had envisioned …
Seven Tips for Achieving Excellence: From the Perspective of a Health Care Executive
How can you achieve excellence? Eric Barber, CEO of Northeast Regional Medical Center shares his tips. By Eric Barber, with an introduction by Jaclyn Crawford We all remember those posters we saw on the walls growing up in school: The ones with a scenic picture that read “perseverance” or “success.” Those tend to be nice wall decorations, but what if …
Five Ways to Motivate Your Workforce
Have you noticed a lack of excitement in employees when it comes to their work? Gary Kunath shares how you can revive your office. Employees have evolved in the past 10 years or so; they have different priorities. What makes them happy today is very different from what we once focused on as employee motivators. To get the most out …
Fight the Fat: Turn Your Ordinary Office into a Space to Get Fit
Most of us spend our workday sitting. We asked Glenneth Reed, Fitness Blogger at Let’s Talk and Walk, to give her suggestions on creative ways to stay fit at the office. With a full-time desk job, I spend almost 40 hours a week sitting in front of the computer and that’s not talking about the time I spend at home …
Ten Steps to Get that Promotion You’ve Been Eyeing
With appropriate planning and strategy, you can reach that promotion you’ve been eyeing An increasing trend in corporate America today is the feeling of being “stuck” in your current job, with little to slow opportunity for promotion. More executives are staying put because of economic conditions, fear of the unknown and valuing what they have even though they may be …
One Year Later: A Follow-Up with Barbara Kallay
VP of HR at Royal Caribbean, Barbara Kallay, elaborates on how she has adapted to her changing work environment Editor’s Note: In our Nov/Dec 2012 edition, we spoke with Barbara Kallay about her first six months as VP of Human Resources (HR) at Royal Caribbean. Now that she has been working in the role for more than a year, the …
One Year Later: Following Up with Brian Will
Brian Will, Global HR Partner at Momentive, shares how he has been successful during a time of transition Editor’s Note: Almost a year ago now, we spoke with Brian Will, who was just taking the reins as Global Human Resources (HR) Partner at Momentive. We checked back in with Will to see what he has been up to, how things …
From The Office: Issue 6 Reflection
Much like the features we have spoken with, we are constantly learning. Here is our reflection of putting together the latest edition of Forefront. Issue 6 came out last week, and we couldn’t be happier with the final product. In the midst of getting out this issue, we were learning a lot about the importance of communication, in and out …
Secret to reaching the top: Think, Act, Talk like a CEO
How can leadership be so difficult when defining its core principle is so easy? Leadership is simply the ability to get people to do what you want them to do
Four for the Fourth: Great American leaders
For this holiday, we have brought together a list of who we think are four great American Leaders, and how we can learn from them today. By The Forefront Editorial team When brainstorming, there is never a wrong answer… or at least so they tell us growing up. The in-house editorial team recently got together to brainstorm “What is a …
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