Spotlight Excellence When You Recognize It Shining a spotlight on excellence through award nomination is a great way to highlight outstanding work being done and the people and teams responsible for it. Much like winning an Oscar for Hollywood’s finest, “best of” awards are celebrated across industries and organizations. And like an Oscar, being nominated…
Coaching as Strategic Onboarding for Executives
Assigning an Executive Coach Improves Transitions and Can Lower Costs Even after a talent acquisition process that screens scores of candidates, interviews top contenders and picks the best match for a position; the failure rate for new executives within the first 18 months is 40 to 50 percent, according to research. Improving new executive success…
Accelerating Leadership Teams
How Team Coaching Achieves Better Outcomes Executive coaching has proven to be successful in helping leaders perform at higher levels in work and other environments. Coaches work with people to keep or amplify their strengths while helping them understand and address their gaps. Oftentimes, this includes the need to help leaders identify derailing behaviors that…
Transition Required for Today’s Leader
Five Work Skills Adding Value While employers and institutions are frantically dealing the ramifications of COVID-19, many still are not taking time to identify the specific work skill shifts necessary for success amid the pandemic. William Bridges wrote about change and transition in his 1991 book, Managing Transitions. Change, he said, is something that happens…
The Mask Has Been Removed
Hope for Achieving Social Justice Just as we were reluctantly accepting that we need to wear masks to prevent the spread of COVID-19, we were reminded that an insidious disease that has permeated our culture for 400 plus years continues to ravage our society. On May 25, with the brutal killing of George Floyd, a…
Why You Need to Be a Better Leader Because of COVID-19
Five Strategies that will Improve Your Leadership As “stay home” orders shift to “stay safe” orders, workers are getting back to business. In the span of just three (long) months, however, COVID-19 has reshaped the workplace. Some employees will return to office buildings that occupy the same space, but bear little resemblance to the work…
What’s Needed as We Return to Work
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…