A Tribute to Veterans Our values shape our lives. Values are influenced by our culture, our family, our beliefs and experiences. They help guide the principles that form the essence of who we are and how we operate. When we live and work in concert with our values, we operate at our best. When we…
Five Steps Successful Leaders Use to Develop Employees
Follow These Steps to Help Employees Thrive Gen Xers, millennials and baby boomers may hold distinctly different views on many issues, but they share similar desires when it comes to their career goals. Across these generations, allowing some variance in ranking, the opportunity to make a positive impact on their organization is a common long-term…
How to Achieve Career Velocity
Demonstrating Value, Visibility and Voice Lead to Career Liftoff Growing your career can be a daunting task. While some people seem to have natural abilities and make this look easy, more often I have found that leaders develop critical skills over time. No matter what growth path you are on, consistently demonstrating the three V’s—value,…
Getting to Action and Accountability
Executive Coaching Leads to Positive Results Clients new to executive coaching enter the initial meetings with varying expectations. They likely have had mentors before, and many expect that coaching will be similar. They quickly realize it isn’t. Mentors usually have professional or business experience that the coaching client can benefit from by asking for insights…
How Coaching Can Be Used as Part of a Leadership Development Agenda
Coaching Activates and Retains Learning and Development Leadership development in most organizations takes the form of structured learning. Leaders move from their job environment to a formal classroom experience where they are exposed to ideas and thinking delivered in a variety of channels. These channels include traditional classroom, virtual learning, micro learning (or bite-sized learning…
DRIVING AWARENESS WITH THE RIGHT ASSESSMENTS
Using Assessments to Benefit Coaching Clients and Organizations Why Use Assessments? Organizations use assessments for a variety of reasons. Pre-employment assessments are the most popular, but over the past several years many more assessments for leadership development purposes have become commercially available. Executive coaches use a large variety of assessments depending on the issues which…
Why Coaching Adds Value
Six Primary Benefits of Coaching As executive coaches, we are often asked three questions about what we do for a living. While there are many variations, the theme is usually the same: “Isn’t coaching for people who are not performing well or just aren’t good leaders?” “How exactly do you coach people when you don’t…
Overcoming Your Inner Critic in Career Decisions
Six Steps to Confidently Move Towards Your Desired Future Are you your own worst critic? If you are like many individuals, your answer to this question is a resounding, “yes.” This can be especially true when it comes to career growth. I get it. There were times when I was growing my human resources career…
A Career Is Not A Spectator Sport
Do You Want a Job or a Career? Only about one-third (34%) of employees are actively engaged, involved and committed to their work, according to a 2018 Gallup report. Many reasons exist for low engagement at work, ranging from how your manager treats you, the security of your employer, your position, the opportunities you have…
Seven Attributes of Amazing Team Leaders
Delivering Results Through Teamwork In today’s workplace, most initiatives, programs and projects succeed or fail based on how teams deliver on the work involved. Each member plays an important role on the team, and team leaders have the unique responsibility to ensure that the team delivers on the expected results. Leaders who consistently succeed do…