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...
by admin | Jul 30, 2013 | Blog (All Categories), Facilitation, Leadership Teams, Organizational Change
Silence often makes people uncomfortable. But remarkably, leaders can also use silence to generate breakthroughs in performance. Let me explore: I recently facilitated a two-day strategy retreat with 10 senior leaders of a company that had been reorganized. One...
by admin | Jul 9, 2013 | Blog (All Categories), Executive Coaching, Influencing, Leadership Skills, Self-Awareness
In a freak accident eight weeks ago, I was hit by a truck and pinned against a highway guardrail. The impact broke my femur in half and fractured my knee. Wheel chair bound for four weeks, I’m now halfway through a 6-month recovery period. Needless to say,...
by admin | Jun 18, 2013 | Blog (All Categories), Leadership Teams, Organizational Change, Organizational Consulting
You buy a kitchen table from Ikea and haul it home. You spread the contents of the box on the floor. You glance at the instructions and start screwing pieces together. You stop reading the instructions altogether and quickly attach table legs to tabletop. You are...
by admin | Jun 5, 2013 | Blog (All Categories), Executive Coaching, Self-Awareness
As a facilitator of leadership training programs, I’m sobered by research that ranks the impact of training programs as pretty low on the developmental experience scale. At the top of the list: challenging life experiences and adversities. I even see this in my own...
by admin | May 20, 2013 | Blog (All Categories), Executive Coaching, Leadership Skills
I have a leadership-coaching client who engenders well-earned loyalty from his people. Equal part strategic and operational, tough and tender, he defines his role as building and leading highly effective teams. Hell, even I’d work for him, despite my 15 years of...
