Five Essential Leadership Traits Required Now As stay-at-home orders are being relaxed and employees are returning to work, leaders have the unprecedented challenge of navigating an uncharted journey—one that is complicated by the numerous variables that confront our workforce. For me, the now oft-quoted statement by Damian Barr resonates with the time: “We are not…
Adapting Leadership to Engage and Support Remote Workers
Six Steps to Improve Your New Virtual Reality With millions of employees being required to work from home due to the COVID-19 pandemic, leaders need to adapt to engage and support their employees and teams working remotely. During my executive career, I worked on, as well as managed, global teams. Through that experience, I learned…
Using Feedback and Assessments:
Five Steps to Grow Self-Awareness and Your Career I was in a gym while on vacation last week along with a few other early morning workout warriors. A man came in during the last 10 minutes of my workout, adjusted his headphones and started a rigorous treadmill workout. Right away, the treadmill this guy was…
Leadership Lessons from Heisman Trophy Candidates
Five Attributes That We Can All Adopt Sports are fascinating to watch. They teach us valuable lessons while also igniting our emotions, i.e., “The thrill of victory and the agony of defeat.” The 2019 Heisman Trophy award candidates exemplify the incredible athletic prowess that inspires excellence in sport and in life. I was especially intrigued…
Values Shaped by Veterans in My Family
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…