Keep and Develop Tenured Employees: They are a Core Value of Your Company When I was 40 years old, I told a 50-year-old colleague that I was thinking about changing careers. He said to me, “you better do it now because when you're 50 years old you'll not be taken...
Really Great Executive Teams Realize Psychological Safety For all of us to be at our best as a team and individual contributors, we need to be confident, motivated, and have the ability to be in the arena, as Theodore Roosevelt understood. We need to engage our peers...
How we embrace our own strength and power can make all the difference in our effectiveness and enjoyment about the things we do. Confidence is a mindset that we can control and embrace to demonstrate that strength and power. In our last blog, we defined confidence and...
Transformation – Get Out of Its Way General George S. Patton once said, “…Lead me, follow me or get out of the way.” Today, more than ever, that famous quote takes on new meaning as we transform the way that modern workers both lead and follow. Looking at the business...
In our last blog, we discussed why building a culture of coaching is difficult. Whether it is one’s inability for self-reflection, challenges of finding the right coach, or the inability to get universal buy-in. In this blog, we provide some ideas on how you can work...
In the summer of 2012, we were invited to speak at an Association for Talent Development event. This was a big deal for us. It’s difficult to address peers who know more than you do about a subject and have read all the same books. We were asked to speak about the...
In our last blog, we discussed how leadership is not a solo effort. We talked about how it is important to build a collaborative environment and gain organizational commitment. So, if leadership is not a solo sport, then it must be a team sport. Working as a team is...
A while back, I was assisting a mid-sized company with their interview process for a new CEO. The Board of Directors believed the organization’s issues were directly related to their ‘leader’. They spoke of lack of communication, poor decision-making, and...
Lessons Learned from COVID The COVID-19 pandemic has taught organizational leaders a number of lessons. As cases and infections ebb and flow, new challenges are placed at the feet of these leaders. The leading challenge has been coined “the great resignation” – or...
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