Research has shown that 4 out of 10 leaders fail in the first 18 months in a new position. To avoid this potential derailment, I work with leaders-in-transition to basically reinvent themselves at each career shift . This means that at each career change there...
Read More >I was working with a large technical firm on a strategic planning project. We had assigned one team of high-potential engineer/leaders to explore one key strategic topic – the role that culture plays in the current and future success of the enterprise. After careful research,...
Read More >I often begin Leadership Development discussions by asking the question, “What occurred in your past that makes a difference in how you lead today?”. I’ve probably asked this 100 times and the results are always the same. Leaders report that they learned meaningful skills by...
Read More >One factor that we often in find in failing leadership development programs is when companies employ a long , complex list of “key” leadership competencies. On their own, each competency makes sense but, in total, the complexity creates confusion and results in development efforts that...
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We often begin Leadership Development discussions by asking the question, “What occurred in your past that makes a difference in how you lead today?”. We’ve probably asked this 100 times and the results are always the same. Leaders report that they learned meaningful skills by...
Read More >One of the essentials we espouse to help cure the The Sad State of Leadership Development is to assure that any initiative begins by framing the development in a manner that clearly links outcomes to effort, linking “Why is this important?” to “How is this accomplished?”....
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