Jill Imig, PE, EDAC

Thought Leadership

The Pile Just Keeps Growing

To maintain team morale and productivity, leaders must focus on proactive planning, effective communication and emotional intelligence.

February 3, 2025

Jill Imig, PE, EDAC

Author Jill Imig shares her strategies for maintaining team morale and productivity, emphasizing the need for flexibility, data-driven decisions and clear documentation.

Thought Leadership

The Search for Work-Life Balance

By setting our boundaries and creating healthy habits, we are creating more of a balance between work and home.

January 6, 2025

Jill Imig, PE, EDAC

Columnist Jill Imig suggests that instead of striving for perfect work-life balance, individuals should focus on setting boundaries and creating healthy habits.

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Thought Leadership

When the Good Ones Go

Navigating personnel changes can be challenging; deciding to counteroffer or let employees walk away takes a lot of work.

October 2, 2024

Jill Imig, PE, EDAC

Burnout, lack of recognition and other factors may lead valued employees to seek new paths. It’s important for business leaders to understand and support those choices. Columnist Jill Imig notes that maintaining positive relationships and leaving doors open for potential return showcase a culture of respect and growth within the organization.

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Thought Leadership

‘Compete Every Day’

Your success comes down to consistently owning your actions, efforts and attitudes.

August 5, 2024

Jill Imig, PE, EDAC

Take the business competition concept and apply it to yourself: compete with yourself to become a better version of yourself. Jake Thompson’s ‘Compete Every Day’ is truly inspiring, full of great ideas to help you become the best version of yourself.

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Thought Leadership

Frustrations

In situations where you aren’t connecting with your team, getting to know them personally can help break the tension.

June 3, 2024

Jill Imig, PE, EDAC

Don’t be hesitant to use personal, open-ended questions to break the tension within a project team. You then can re-engage in the project with more patience and perhaps a better understanding of how to resolve differences.

Thought Leadership

No Resolutions

Don’t compare the work you do to everyone else’s work. Your contributions are what everyone needs from you.

April 1, 2024

Jill Imig, PE, EDAC

Our work can change from one year to the next, one month to the next, or one day to the next. And when we’re used to the chaos and the long hours, suddenly having a “normal” schedule can be confusing. Jill Imig describes her experience at the beginning of the year and what she realized about herself.

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Thought Leadership

Finding Empathy as a Leader

We cannot work through all items in our safe leader bubble — it is unhealthy and often unproductive.

March 4, 2024

Jill Imig, PE, EDAC

Active listening — not only hearing but listening — is a skill that helps us understand the needs of our clients, coworkers, family and friends. In a business relationship, that translates to using empathy to be aware of and sensitive to the thoughts and feelings of others.

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Women in Leadership

Providing Feedback

Create a strong, confident and productive workplace by leading from a place of honesty and desire to help employees succeed.

December 4, 2023

Jill Imig, PE, EDAC

Performance reviews can be stressful for employees — and their managers. To alleviate the stress, discuss their performance throughout the year. Listen to what they need to be successful, even if you don’t agree. You’ll retain more employees if you help in their professional growth.

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Women in Leadership

Celebrating Generations

It is powerful to be a part of a cross-generational team that works together, but it was hard work to get there.

October 2, 2023

Jill Imig, PE, EDAC

Most businesses have a diverse generational culture, but how do people of these age groups work together? They have different life experiences and views on work-life balance. Read how Jill Imig, a millennial department leader, works with her diverse-age team.

Women in Leadership

Trust Is Important

Your team can lose confidence in you as a leader; regaining it requires treating team members with honesty, integrity and respect.

September 4, 2023

Jill Imig, PE, EDAC

Jill Imig explains her use of Stephen M.R. Covey’s trust principles to strengthen confidence in her as a leader by treating team members with honesty, integrity and respect.