by admin | Nov 5, 2013 | Blog (All Categories), Leadership Skills, Self-Awareness
As a leadership consultant, I’ve made a career of helping executives heal the wounds they’ve inflicted, and mend the trust they’ve broken with their anger. I’ve seen uncontrolled anger ruin careers, and I know this to be a major derailment factor for senior...
by admin | Sep 25, 2013 | Blog (All Categories), Executive Coaching, Leadership Skills, Self-Awareness
My dear colleague Sheila approached as I sat in the back of the training room and asked, “Why do you look like you just ate a grapefruit?” It’s true I was disappointed that her debrief of the activity she had just led didn’t seem to go...
by admin | Sep 10, 2013 | Blog (All Categories), Leadership Skills, Self-Awareness
On a recent flight to New York I sat beside an energetic operations manager for a small bank. Hearing that I was a leadership consultant, he looked interested and started talking. “‘My problem,” he announced without my asking, “is that I have...
by admin | Aug 26, 2013 | Blog (All Categories), Facilitation, Organizational Change
Motivational speakers used to turn me off. As a facilitator of leadership and team development processes, I viewed these gigs mostly as ‘edu-tainment:’ sentimental yarns or heroic exploits that rarely left a trace. But then I had the experience…...
by admin | Aug 13, 2013 | Blog (All Categories), Executive Coaching, Leadership Skills, Self-Awareness
I love the irony: Sometimes it’s the leaders who complain the loudest about frivolous spending who unknowingly add the most cost to the bottom line. Years ago I learned of a great example at a southern retailer. When its elderly (and miserly) chairman walked...
